War Orders Rise As U.S. Industry Hits High Output
War orders piled up as plants ran around the clock and employment reached new highs. Inflation worries lingered while Congress wrestled with an economic controls bill. Ford's Lincon-Mercury planned a large Detroit area plant. Gulf Oil awarded a Port Arthur cracking unit contract. Columbia Steel leased wartime steelmaking facilities in Pittsburg California idled since WWII.
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New York
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Lincon-Mercury
Ford Motor Company
Detroit
Gulf Oil Corporation
Port Arthur
Texas
Columbia Steel Company
United States Steel
Pittsburg
Calif
Possible Clue To Five Texans Missing With Plane
A Civilian Air Patrol sighting a 30 foot wide slash in tree tops near Stamford Massachusetts is viewed as a possible crash clue in the disappearance of five Texans aboard a private plane on July 20. Coast Guard and Army searchers had been called off, with the missing Houston group including J. R. Horrigan, Mrs Ann Gill and her two children, and pilot J F Aldrich.
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Stamford
U.P
Texas
Massachuetts
Jesse Watson
Coast Guard
Army
New Jersey
Providence
R.I
J. R. Horrigan
The
Oklahoma Construction Corp
Ann Gill
J. F. Aldrich
Houston
Services For Charles T Henry Of Lubbock
Funeral services for Charles T. Henry 40 of 2507 Twenty sixth will be held at 2 30 p m today at Rix Funeral Home with Dr H J Robinson officiating. Burial will follow at Tech Memorial Cemetery. Henry a cotton businessman and World War II veteran was a German prisoner. He is survived by three brothers Jack Lubbock Russell Har f ingen and Grady W Greenville. The American Bible Society has distributed 4 000 000 Bibles in Japan since the war.
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Charles T. Henry
Rix Funeral Home
H. J. Robinson
Tech Memorial Cemetery
Henry
Jack
Lubbock
Russell
Harfingen
Grady W
Greenville
Driverless Car Crash Dazzles Town Man on Lawn
Weatherford of 726 Ave K reports his automatic choke mishap led to a driverless car careening across his lawn. The car surged between a radio shop and a sign, past a sidewalk, and into a parked car, then wheeled away as the engine died. Police note the vehicle had an automatic clutch and comment on the uncanny maneuvering.
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Huch Hinves
G. A. Weatherford
Ave. K
Weatherford
Haltec
Hayes
Former Hopkins County Residents To Hold Reunion Here
A reunion of former Hopkins County residents now living in the South Plains Panhandle and Eastern New Mexico is planned for Sunday August 13 at Mackenzie Park. Bert Hattan secretary treasurer of the association announces baskets lunches and watermelons are requested with the picnic meal served at 1 p.m.
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Hopkins County
South Plains
Panhandle
New Mexico
Mackenzie Park
Bert Hattan
Flynn Says He Found the Perfect Wife
Hollywood reports Errol Flynn plans to marry Patrice Wymore in Salina Kansas after returning from Paris, calling her the perfect wife despite prior romances. The pair met at a party, and Flynn has introduced Wymore to his parents while Fiona continues film commitments abroad.
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Errol
Erroll Flynn
Irinia Chica
Paris
Patrice Wymore
Beverly Hills
Calif
Flynn
Patrice
Kansas
New York
Albert R. Blum
Miss Wrmore
Hollywood
Errol Flynn
Miss Wymore
Fiona
Rose
Irene
Ghica
Lauren Bacall
Theodore Flynn
Jack Eddington
Salina
Pat
Sammy Lambert
Patrice Wimore
Miss Wigmore
Lambert
Noted sportsman dies in Kentucky hospital
Dr Frank H Bassett 76 longtime Christian County court clerk and former Kitten baseball league president died in a Hopkinsville hospital. His friends recall his sportsman reputation as he planned to share an apartment with a Hollywood dancer on her return.
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Hopkinsville
Frank H. Bassett
Christian County
Kitty Baseball League
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American Bible Society
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72Nd Judicial District
Travis Shelton
First National Bank
Patricia Clary
United Press
Kans
Tex
Avalanche-Journal
Sun
Tarrytown
N.Y
United Nations
Neil S. Waterman
UN Security Council
Russia
Jakob Malik
Shaw
SHAWS
Sterling Holloware
Shaw's
Rhea Gy
Ever Eranon
Chevrolet
Arefer Ahreaegale
Kuykendall Chevrolet CO
19Th ST
Texas Avenue
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