Ford Bomber Plants and Women on the Assembly Line
The article depicts Ford bomber production during wartime in Michigan. It notes a large workforce including women up to 25 percent, extensive plant facilities at Rouge and Willow Run, and various war materiel such as tanks engines and jeep production. It highlights patriotic drive, security rules, and the plant’s impact on Detroit’s wartime role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Michigan
Detroit
Tokio
Ford
Wayne County
England
Normandie
Milt Carmichael
Detroit Courier
Mr. Ford
The
Detroit Edison
Pratt and Whitney Airplane Motors
Willow Run
Rouge
Navy
Uruguay and its landmark democracy under Artigas and Montevideo
An overview of Uruguay as a self governing nation, its geographic setting from the Rio de la Plata to the Uruguay River, and Montevideo as capital. It highlights Artigas, democratic traditions, and the wartime view of Uruguay as a laboratory of democracy alongside economic and agricultural strengths led by livestock, wheat, citrus, and vine production. It credits Jose Gervasio Artigas and Claudio Williman with shaping Montevideo University as symbols of national cohesion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enrique Rodo
Uruguay
Jose Gervasio Artigas
South America
Rio de la Plata
Brazil
Republic
Uruguay River
Argentina
Montevideo
Magellan
Montereo
el Cerro
Buenos Aires
London
The
Plate
Local Happenings and Red Cross Notes in Gogebic County
Wakefield residents announce births and visits while Red Cross volunteers in Gogebic chapter discuss knitting for armed forces. Includes multiple family announcements, weekend visits, and local travel or relocation patterns among residents and relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Red Cross Regula
Ironwood
Sixth Grade Reports All in Illinois Art Exhibit
The sixth grade notes sums up in Illinois amid an art exhibit at the high school featuring puppets from years past. Drawings shown were praised as notably good.
High School Students Given Annual Awards
National Honor Society members received emblems in a ceremony conducted by Oliver Thure. Tie for NHS honors: Wilbur Maki and Douglas Trezise named co winners. Sophie Zorich named student council president for 1942 43.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kuiawa
Bruce Delmet
Sylvester Desonia
Janet Gross
Eunice Evans
Nelson
Clarke Niemi
Gerrith Olson
John Ozzello
Louis Remondino
Ray Saari
Bertha Waataja
Sophie Zorich
Shirley Mac Cloan
Jack Dahlstrom
Helen Ericson
Jack Graskevski
Burnell Hanson
Dorothy Hanson
William Jacobson
Bernard Keast
Wilbur Maki
Helen Mondich
Irene Pitkanen
Marie Louise Stannard
Douglas Trezi
Leonard Wedenoja
National Honor Society
Oliver Thure
Ericson
Jack Graikoski
Marie Stannard
The
Legion
Douglas Trezise
American Legion Auxiliary
James Kuiawa
Also Mentioned on This Page
Treasure Department
Lil W Wet
Claudio Williman
University of Montevideo
Earl Shogreni
Wakefield Hospital
Venner Salmela
William Day
Pat Bodoh
James Bodoh
Arthur Venn
Oliver Gagnon
Lake
Linden
Sylvester Laberdie
J. H. Rowell
Bridgeport, Conn
George Cavender Yr
George Cavender
Pickford
Mich
J. Lummakka
Charles Ojala
Seere
Reino Vertanen
Negaunee
E J. Ikola
Matt Hook
John Wilson
Marjorie Patricia
Wilson
Margaret Milan
Bessemer
John
Miss Niemi
Nestor Niemi
Victor Nisula
Larry Carr
Edith Savola
Isaac Saari
Nisula
Wakefield
Norman Thomas
Gogebic County
John Koski
Eric Harry
Thomaston Road
Chicago
Orrie Hissey
Audrey
Gertrude Luoma
Howell, Mich
Walter Lewandowski
Thomaston
Hibbing
John DeMarte
Marenisco
Wake Field Hospital
Mary Obradovich
Thomas Obradovich
Plymouth
Arnold Kangas
Russell Morrill
Gust Kangas
Comet
Edward Foster
Watersmeet
Arthur Johnson
John Carter
Rena Villa
Ishpeming
Frances Evanoff
Milwaukee
Gertrude Ullrich
Board of Education
Ralph Frombolz
Ashland
J. Bugni
Elmer Hypps
Fromholz
Josephine Bugni
L. G. Wilson
Crystal Falls
Victoria Tufts
Fred Trewyn
Whitewater
Zeno Zielinski
Harry Grigg
Texas
Jefferson Barracks
Richard Nelson
Fort Sheridan, Il
Emil Nelson
Quartermaster’s Department
Freak Sutter
Manitowoc
Green Bay
Wis
Helen Jane
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Elsie Sutter
Sutter
Frank Ringsmith
Charles Ringsmith
Wittenberg
Edward Jackson
Mr. Ringsmith
John Ringsmith
William Drahozel
Wakefield News
Wakefield, Michigan
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