Building for Defense The Challenge of Mobilizing U S Industry
A National Defense Advisory Commission briefing outlines the phased effort to build a 2,000,000 man army and two ocean navy. It explains design work, contract specs, contractor selection, and the ramping of machine tools and plants to accelerate defense material output.
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Roosevelt
Congress
National Defense Advisory Commission
Knudsen
Army
Navy
U. S
Industrial Materials Division
The
Defense Commission
Machine Tools
Civil Court Cancelled Carries Through October 1
The Civil Term of Superior Court scheduled for September 30 was canceled after the Hall County Bar Association met and decided not to set a calendar. No Superior Court in the county until the Criminal Court week begins October 21, with civil cases deferred to a November 25 mixed term. Recorder's Court will meet October 1 as usual.
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Superior Court
Halifax County Bar Association
Recorder's Court
Local Families Attended Lucille Cherry's Sunday Gathering
Mr and Mrs Claude Payne and daughters Ercel and Anna Louise of Lorton Virginia joined Mr and Mrs Hal Covington Mrs Payne of Richmond Stuart Ledbetter and J Covington as guests of Mrs Lucille Cherry on Sunday in a social gathering with multiple families listed.
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Claude Payne
Ercel and
Anna Louise
Lorton, Va
Hal Covington
Payne
Richmond
Stuart Ledbetter
J. Covington
Lucille Cherry
Halifax County Draft Board await governor instruction
County officials A. L. Hux W. C. Matthews and Kelly Jenkins wait for governor approval before forming the draft board. The board will include a physician a lawyer and a business man chosen for merit to determine county eligibility under War Department rules. Governor Hoey said the board should serve without pay as a patriotic duty to the defense program.
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Halifax County
Superior Court
A. L. Hux
W. C. Matthews
County Board of Elections
Kelly Jenkins
War Department
Hoey
Farmers urged to apply for seeds under soil improvement program
Farmers interested in the government grant of aid for soil improvement should contact the County Agent's office and apply for dairy vetch Austrian winter peas and lime without delay as announced this week.
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