Polio Victim Brian Parker Wins Two Challenges
Barrington Illinois reports Brian Prescott Parker 15 overcame infantile paralysis to master shotgun use with Springer spaniel Huricane Lad. He trained twice daily shooting over 70 pigeons and won a field trial with pheasants. He is an honor roll student at Barrington High and plans MIT admission in 1943. Lad earned the Dog World's International Diploma of Honor.
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Barrington
Inl
U.P
Brian Prescott Parker
Brian
Hurricane Lad
Lad
Barington High School
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
British auto men step up exports
London reports British automobile assembly lines operate at about half prewar speed due to material shortages. Output for 1946 forecast at 200,000 cars, below the 400,000 target. Manufacturers push into foreign markets, leveraging labor bottlenecks in Detroit to preempt American salesmen.
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London
U.P
British Automobile Assembly
Detroit
Streaming Abroad Targets Foreign Market Share
The article notes a plan to capture part of an estimated 20 million dollars in foreign business ahead of American rivals. Despite British clientele wavering, the company ships half of its lean output overseas, enduring home-front lamentations.
Bavarian Beer Sparks Worker Protests and Shortage Complaints
In Munich the first of many protests over weaker beer ends as brewery workers are allowed a house drink for the first time since 1941. The new 1.7 percent pale beer is criticized as thin and far from the old 12 percent variety, dampening morale and bay window sizes.
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Munich
U.P
Bavarian beer shortage hits meals and milk supply
The passage notes beer's damage to Bavarian life as a necessity, not a luxury. It explains beer costs, the extreme price of beer relative to milk, and a decline in milk deliveries as laborers switch from beer to drinking milk. It also mentions beer based dishes like beer soup and the saying hops and malt verloren signaling hopelessness.
Magnetic plane hunts oil sources in Pennsylvania region
State College residents will see a low flying plane drop magnetic detectors on a mountainous area. The devices are to locate subsurface oil sources and are described as harmless “bombs.” The operation is part of a survey activity conducted by experts in the field.
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State College
U.P
Pennsylvania
Experimental Survey Lifted From Plane With Cable Rig
A testing device hung from the belly of a plane by a wire cable connected to instruments filling the fuselage. The experiment is part of a survey begun by the U S Geological Survey and Pennsylvania State College to advance development of new and existing technologies.
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U. S. Geological Survey
Pennsylvania State College
Edith Shoots Back Mobridge Star Scorer Draws Attention
Edith, an Indian girl, is the leading scorer for her soccer team as she shoots back against Mobridge in a regional contest.
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Mobridge
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U.R
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