Wind Tunnel Jet Fighter in Morog Calif Test Flight XP-84
In Morog California March 1 the Army Air Corps tests a new jet fighter built by Republic Aviation under XP-84 designation. The aircraft uses an axial flow jet unit and marks the first test flights with Army supervision. Approximately five percent of U S crude oil refined becomes kerosene.
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Morog
Calif
Himderbolt
Republiciiation
Spervision
Army Air Ieal Command
Liquefied Gases Production Surges Over Two Years
Production and use of liquefied petroleum gases has tripled during the past two years pushing demand higher.
Canned Food Drive Reaches 1000 Case Goal
Mes Robert Tucker as chairman of the San Antonio Junior League announced the goal of 1000 cases for the city has been reached. Food is now being sent to the East coast for Europe. Mrs Tucker commended volunteers who donated 825 dollars and noted 187 cases collected from Harlandale Horace Mann and Alamo Heights public schools. The Red Cross motor pool transported the food to collection centers.
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Robert Tucker
Victory
San Antonio
Madison Leads World in Home Oil Furnaces
In Madison Wisconsin the city boasts the highest share of homes heated with oil furnaces, a percentage unmatched worldwide. The claim highlights a distinctive heating pattern in the capital city’s housing stock.
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Madison
Wis
Tibbets Sees New York's End With 7 Atom Bombs
Roswell, New Mexico dispatch reports Col. Paul W. Tibbets Jr. says seven atomic bombs could render New York City helpless. He predicts five bombs would cripple Washington and four could take care of Chicago, while noting coastal cities like San Francisco face different risks. He contrasts atomic and blocbusters and discusses potential targets and effects on nerve centers, with plans for a Pacific test to advance atomic warfare knowledge.
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Marek L
IMNS
Hiroshima
New York City
Col
Paul W. Tibbets Jr
Orlando
Frs
Pacific
Tibbels
Washington, D. C
Chicago
San Francisco
New Orleans
Miami
Fla
Tibbets
Beause
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Shbets
Radio City
Maj
Alexander P. Dee Seversky
New York
Senate Special Committee On Atomic Energy
Washington
Seversky
New York Financial District
Thomas F. Yarrell
Manhattan Engineering Project
Star Department
Tibvets
Mke
Solons
Ciphel
Congress
Empire State Building
Pennsylvania Railroad Station
Radar Pitted Against V-2s
Washington announces plans to test radar against captured Nazi V-2 missiles this summer in the New Mexico desert. Gen William Richardson says the effort aims to track 300 mile per hour rockets and guide a radar controlled interceptor. Ordnance experts and German technicians have assembled 15 or more V-2s for trials using all known radar detection methods.
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Washington
Amy
New Mexico
William T. Richardson
Song Air Forces
Richardson
Gas Plant to Build Synthetic Fuels in Texas
A plant to manufacture synthetic gasoline and diesel from natural gas is under construction in Texas.
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Texas
London insurer halts death policy due to atomic warfare
A leading London insurance firm said it would stop writing death policies amid expectations of atomic warfare. The company cited modern warfare developments as the reason for no longer insuring against death from war-time actions.
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London
INS
Red Cross Worker To Be Interviewed On KTSA Radio
Miss Dorothy J. McDonald assistant Red Cross field director at Kelly field will be interviewed on The Flying Times of the Air over KTSA at 1 45 p m Saturday. She will talk of overseas experiences during 33 months in the European theater and her unit landed in Normandy the day Cherbourg fell.
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Dorothy J. McDonald
Ted Cross
Kelly Field
Ktsa
Red Cross
Normandy
Cherbourg
Stadler on Way Home After Tokyo Assignment
Gen Stadler returns home with his wife Mrs Mary Stadler and daughter Dorothy aged six, residing at 126 Canterbury Street. He is succeeded as commander of the First Brigade First Cavalry Division by Brig Gen William B Bradford following Friday's Tokyo departure in AP reports.
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Dann IL Stade
Mary Stadler
Dorothy
Canterbury Street
Tokyo
Associated Press
Tle
First Cavalry Division
William B. Bradford
Soldier Leaves Get New Boost
A House military subcommittee backed legislation to grant terminal leave pay to enlisted men equal to officers. The bill would allow unused leave to be paid out at discharge, with costs estimated up to 6 billion dollars. Eligible ex servicemen would have one year to apply.
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