Copper Mine Shutdown as Demand Vanishes
Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Co due to sharp loss of demand will shut down copper mines in Michigan and lay off 1,800 workers. E R Lovell notes a token underground force to run pumps while smelting and refining continues. He hopes market conditions are temporary and operations may resume if demand returns.
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New York
Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Co
Michigan
E. R. Lovell
Lovell
Calumet
Hecla
Nation's Fire Losses Climb to 67 Million in March
Fire losses in the nation rose to an estimated 67,218,000 in March, a 7.7 percent rise from February but 9.5 percent below March 1948. Year to date losses total 187,568,000, with daily destruction averaging 2,084,088 since January 1.
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New York
W. E. Mallalieu
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Driver Killed When He Hits Milwaukee Train
Kenosha Wisconsin dispatch reports 65 year old David Sorenson died Monday night after his truck was struck by a Milwaukee Road passenger train at a crossing three miles west of Kenosha. Wreckage extended about 150 yards along the tracks.
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Kenosha
Wis
David Sorenson
Milwaukee Road
Here
UW Faculty Demands Space Upgrades and Library Priority
UW faculty approved a resolution urging the state legislature to fund larger, modern facilities and a new library as a priority. A senate budget recommended $24,031,006 for the university, while admissions rules were loosened to admit out of state students from the top 35 percent of their high school class and transfer standards were eased for certain undergraduates.
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Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Joint Finance Committee
Rennebohm
Wisconsin
Young Roosevelt Attacks Aid to Dictatorships
Ellsworth Roosevelt told Allied Jewish Appeal in Philadelphia that U S aid since World War II has funded totalitarian regimes alongside democracies. He cited Greece and Turkey as examples noting hundreds of millions poured into Greece without backing free elections.
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Philadelphia
U. S
Ellsworth Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Jewish Appeal
Greece
Turkey
United States
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