Two Miners Sons Rise High in Different Ways
The piece profiles Phillip Murray and Benjamin F. Fairless, contrasting their paths from humble roots to leadership roles in labor and steel. It notes Fairless fears wage hikes could raise U S Steel prices, and outlines his career from Ohio beginnings to Carnegie Illinois presidency.
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Suited for Bookkeepers by Astronomers Spend Thrift Debate
Dr. Donald Du Shane, a longtime educator and NEA leader, critiques federal education policy as penny-pinching while urging billions in funding for schooling. The Indiana native, 58, rose from Ohio superintendencies to head NEA, now promoting democracy through education amid New York City board tensions with Mayor LaGuardia.
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Levant Recreation Center A GI Paradise in Palestine
The Army operates Levant Recreation Center near Palestine to rest troops from 5,000 miles of theater. It houses 750 guests, offers hotel like service, 15 minute check ins, music, cold showers, and free leave to Jerusalem Tel Aviv and the beach with all meals and local farm produce. Private Salvadore Spano recalls desert heat and war fatigue fading in this oasis of leisure.
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Mediterranean
Promised Land
Pop Culture Notes Return of John Sullivan Allen on Air
Virginia Vale reports on Fred Allen resuming Sunday radio shows after wartime service and overseas broadcasts. Highlights include John Sul livan Fred Allen's comeback, Richard Dix moving from hero to villain in The Ghost Ship, Dick Powell on marriage and work, Jean Arthur's name change to Jean Vail, a new tap ballet for Eleanor Powell, and a Burns and Allen family moment with son Ronnie crying over praise after a good report card.
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Bob Burns
Jack Douglas
Ruth Hussey
Don Ameche
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Ellery, Queenshow
Naval Log of Victory frames navy fight from Murmansk to Midway
The March of Time feature chronicles actual air and sea battles showing naval tactics from Pearl Harbor to today. Highlights include the navy's answer to Pearl Harbor and scenes from Pearl Harbor to Midway, with world news humor and radio notes woven in.
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Murmansk
Midway
Pearl Harbor
Household Tips From A Vintage Guide
A compilation of frugal care tricks including velvet dust removal with a piece of velvet, burr removal with a hair comb, repurposing tablecloths into mats and bibs, checking children's shoe growth, preventing stockings from tangling with a marble, hot compress tips with a potato peeler, and preparing white summer footwear for storage with laces replaced and shoe trees.
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