War Plant Training Spurs Large Civilian Programs
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute trained thousands for war plant jobs in civilian classes beginning as early as August 1849, expanding to support the national defense effort. The program, developed with the New York State Education Department and later the federal Office of Education, graduated hundreds from Troy and surrounding areas with twenty week courses meeting twice weekly.
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R.P. 1
Pearl Bakber
Rensselaer Polytechnic Insttaute
United Nations
Rel
Emgarzart
Gainbog
Sine
France
Japan
Pearl Harbor
New York
Pearl Barber
Office of Edumentation
Troy
Plattsburg
Training program at RPI expands wartime curriculum
The RPI program offered courses from industrial electronics to management and safety, with women graduates working alongside men. Radar and ultrahigh frequency technique were taught, though secrecy shrouded some content. Led by Prof. Stanter B. Witte, courses drew on local industry and KRPT faculty, extending to sites in Schenectady Pittsfield and Poughkeepsie. Graduates earned promotions as production increased, boosting salaries for thousands of area families during wartime.
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RPE
America
Germany
Radar
Ist
Stanter B. Witte
R. Pla
Electrical Engineering Department
Becom
KRPT
General Electric
Seherectady
Pittsfield
Mess
Poughkeapsie
New York
Wth
Women Who Buy Dress for Trimmings Wise
Professor J F Gesterling of Pennsylvania State College explains that shoppers who buy dresses for quality trimmings are wise after testing thousands of garments. He warns glued designs melt with heat and imitation leather belts stiffen or fray when cleaned, urging careful inspection of painted buttons and color fade in trims and advising metal sequins for durability.
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Peri State Clothing Research Laboratory
Oesterling
Amt
Gesterling
Heatly School Mothers Dinner And Tri Club Meeting
Green Island’s Tri-Cind from Heatly School honored mothers at a dinner and entertainment night at the Troy YWCA with Helen Shull as general chair and Shirley Fivell as co chair. About 28 attendees enjoyed songs and a dance program.
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Tri - Cind
Heatly
Troy V.W.C.A
Helen Shull
Shirley Fivell
Irs
Mildred, Hagen
Elvira Jaborg
Rivatt
Arsinne Mousseau
Gwen Sfinghis
Joan Geer
Refugees Find Permanent Haven in Palestine After Five Years
Five years of roving Jewish refugees from the Balkans are granted permanent entry to Palestine. The group, now in an Egypt UNRWA camp, received emigration certificates after examination by Dr Leo Hermann of the Palestine Jewish Council for Relief Spread. Most will join communal settlements as farmers. some skilled workers will enter Palestine's textile industry.
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Balkans
Palestine
Egypt
Leo Hermann
Palestine Jewish Council For Relief
Creir
Pates-tine
Hermann
Umea
Herpoon
Jugoslavia
Greece
Hermae
Palestine Foundation Tind
Weitzman
Bes
Jewish Agency
United Palestine. Appeal
Palestine medical staff aid mission crosses sea
A report notes forty Jewish medical and public health specialists have left Palestine to work with AXNELA. In Greece they aid Greeks regardless of religion as part of a broader aid effort near the Eastern peninsula toward Manila Bey.
Unreadable fragment discusses an athlete foot incident
The text presents garbled phrases about feet and health but lacks clear names, places, or events to identify a concrete incident or subject. No verifiable persons or organizations are discernible.
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Caces Pitkham
Iyla E'Fickien
WOK
Albany
Paul E. Fitzpatrick
Gov. Dewey
HEPPS
AgyTs
Lester Rosengard
Joseph Rosenberg
Raymond K. Meixsell
Green Island
Heatly High School
Norine B. Keating
the Prairie
Seaman
John B.B. Howle
P. EB. X_ coast patrol
Pensacola
Patricia Lyons
Ford's Park
Suspender
Rayon Gabardiné
Mostaomery Ward
Menands, N
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