5 000 Live by Their Wits 5 000
Washington dinner talk highlights a cadre of lobbyists on retainer driving laws for industries or securing contracts. A mysterious woman claims to influence Navy contracts, drawing timid builders and would be contractors to glamorous night clubs. One lobbyist works for a big power project but has little to show beyond speeches and calls.
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Sigrid Arne
Jack Stinnett
Washington
Insane Asylum
Navy
4A. mi
Thei
Congress
Representative Doughton
House
Ways and Means
Coughtan
Everett Walsh
Des Moines
Ihis
Florida
Sonor
U. S
AL Gililland
Pape Field
Gililland
Pyt
Ralph Barrerra
Michael K
Michaels
Fayetteville
Raleigh
Pvt
Marshall
New York Studies History
Yadkin Road
Cornwallis
Yorktown
Nat Greene
Swamp Fox Morgan
Kilpatrick
General Hampton
Hex
Fort Bragg
Ing
Field Artillery Board
He Army
Bride From The Sky In A daring New York interlude
Judy Allen, an associate editor in New York, awaits a fashion interview at LaGuardia. She meets aviator Sandy Ammerman, who leaves on a test flight. The next day his plane is missing and believed dead. Judy, thinking him lost, fiances him in name only, then searches for answers while facing an emotional upheaval.
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Judy Al-len
LaGuardia Aireport
Sandy Ammerman
San Francisco
Sandy
Judy
Flyer
42Nd Street
Skyways Incorporated
Young Ammerman
Skyways Inc
Philip Rogers
Blake, Blake and Rogers
Phil
Mearning
Poor Guy Just Didn't Have a Chance
An historical note asserts there is about one mile of road for every square mile of U S territory excluding city streets, highlighting vast road density across the nation.
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United States
Fort Bragg's Tidal Wave
Fayetteville, N C residents grapple with Fort Bragg’s growth as 40,000 new nearby residents surge the town. Business booms amid neon storefronts and new housing while social life shifts toward army clubs, bars, and theaters. Soldiers face limited local recreation beyond chow, movies, and payday weekend indulgences as traffic, housing, and cultural change reshape the Cape Fear valley.
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Fayetteville
N. C
Fort Bragg
Cape Fear Valley
Bragg
Hay
Gillespie
Cumberland County
Wilmington
Lumberton
Park Avenue
Shuffle Off to Nowhere Shuffle Off to Nowhere
Pittsburgh report notes a concrete shuffleboard project and puzzled delivery crew. A drafted soldier aids clerking at a Fayet-Reville shoe shop while enjoying civilian clothing off base, with talk of geology studies and Pleistocene sandhills in North Carolina and Georgia farmers commenting on movies.
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Fayet- Reville
Manelvers
North Carolina
Nauleas
Iowa
Piedmont
Appalachians
Georgia
Women’s talk on budgeting and economy in homes
Women strategize budget cuts at home amid rising prices in butter and other basics. Social leaders urged to set an example by avoiding costly discussions of poverty and to economize privately, influencing family and community norms without airing concerns publicly.
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Ruth Millet
National Defense
London servants face rising numbers amid wartime talk
Leaders must choose between quiet gallantry or loud economy as nearly 20,000 more city servants appear in London despite evacuations. The piece warns of a dull winter if discussions turn to poverty rather than action, highlighting public mood and social strain.
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Elyvil
London
Thom Betas
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