Steel industry plans cutbacks for February
New York reports drastic February steel allotments to consumers per Iron Age. Flat rolled products face deep cuts up to 50 percent, with plate quotas hit hardest. Some firms plan reductions up to 60 percent for February while mills switch to plate production, risking further sheet and strip curtailments. Salvage of old equipment by oil firms boosts supply constraints. Defense orders surge after national emergency declaration enables faster government contracts.
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New York
Iron Age
National Metalworking Weekly
Defense
Daytime Machine Worker Is Quilt Maker at Night
Albert Small of UAWA Illinois works heavy machinery by day and quilts at night. He finished a 123,200 piece quilt, his claimed masterpiece, after four years of knotting and assembly. The tiny pieces, some dime-sized, formed an artistic pattern he believes could crown him as a top American quilter.
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Uawa
Ill
Albert Small
Small
House Vote Sought On Rail Union Shop Measure
Washington December 20 AP rail labor leaders pressed for a House vote before adjournment on a Senate passed bill enabling a union shop for railroad workers. The bill would let carriers add a union shop with union agreement, not requiring a worker vote as Taft Hartley mandates.
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Washington
Congress
Representative Beckworth
Texas
House Commerce Committee
Rayburn
Ohio Girl Pleads Guilty To Passing $500 Check
Miss Ruthelaine McGaffick, 22, from Cleveland, pleaded guilty to second degree grand larceny for passing a $500 bogus check on a downtown Buffalo bank on November 16. She has been in confinement since her arrest and was remanded to jail pending sentence Friday.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Ruthelaine McGaffick
Brunet
Cleveland
Philadelphia gunfire stirs hunt for mad sniper
In South Philadelphia a 45 year old man Richard Lavery was shot while talking with friends. He is hospitalized in serious condition. Police link the incident to a wave of shootings by a suspected mad sniper that has left Claire Cohen dead and several wounded. Teens report a prowler in a long black coat, derby and dark coupe as a potential lead.
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Philadelphia
Richard Lavery
Claire Cohen
Oak Lane
Cohen
Freetown Named for 1787 Slave Emancipation Settlement
Freetown in Sierra Leone earned its name from its 1787 establishment as a homeland for freed slaves. The settlement grew as a designated refuge, shaping its historic identity and role in the abolitionist era.
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Freetown
Sierra Leone
Westinghouse Employees Take Partial Ownership Plan
Westinghouse Electric Corp reports 19,000 employees are becoming part owners. The program lets staff buy stock at $4 per share below average market price. By year end employees had acquired 85,000 common shares.
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Pittsburgh
Westinghouse’ Electric Corp
Westinghouse
Payroll plan allows purchase of remaining shares
A provision states that until September 1, employees may buy under a payroll deduction plan so long as the 500,000 shares set aside for them remain available.
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Elmer Slonaker Jr
Baltimore
Elmer
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Elmer Jr
Travel
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Morgantown
Uniontown
Washington, D. C
U.S
Canton, Ohio
Dewali
Blue Ridge
Ohio
the News Depot
2Nd St. NW
Elgin
Hamilton
Waltham
Bulova
Gruen
Winton
Main Springs
Market ST
Canton
Forever Young
Garden Club
Turquoise
Violet
Black
Ele Ace Be & Loar Co
North Canton
Tical Peignoir
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