Utah Spotlight: Silver Price Rise Boosts Nonferrous Output
The Utah Metal Manufacturers Association praises Senators Murdock and McCarran and other western lawmakers for lifting the silver price from 71.11 cents to a higher level. President Truman signs the bill, seen as a spur to Utah nonferrous metal production, fueling industry use in electrical goods, photography, jewelry, and related sectors, with wider employment and money circulation anticipated.
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Utah Metal Mine Operators Association
Abe Murdock
Utah
Pat McCarran
Nevada
Truman
Ancient world curiosities and oddities from history
A collection of unusual historical notes on Civil War bounties, Roman prices, the first streetcar in New York, ancient cat cemeteries, and historical energy feats. It mentions cat mummies in Bubis Egypt, Roman meat prices, and volcanic power potential in Tuscany.
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Rome
New York
Bubis
Egypt
Tuscany
Italy
Vienne
Plane With Jet Sets Speed Record Over 21 Mile Course
The XA-26F jet assisted airplane from Wright Field to St Louis and back achieved a new speed record of 413 mph with a 1,000 kilogram payload on a 21 000 kilometer course. Lt. Col T P Gerrity of Chicago piloted the craft.
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Dayton
Army Air Force
Wright Field
Louis
National Aeronautical x
Inetsy
Ward Grabowski
Alr
T. P. Gerrity
Chicago
Doolittle
Houston
Texas
Jimmy Doolittle
Chicago & Southern Airlines
Army Air Forces
Tokyo
Ellie Slmogt
Bait
Chicago Municipal Airport
Chicago & Southern
Nazi draft of French slave laborers exposed at Nuremberg
Frits Sauckel admitted pressuring the Vichy regime to impose the death penalty on French individuals who hindered Germanys slave labor draft. He claimed such measures targeted serious cases and said Pierre Leval carried them out. Prosecutors allege Sauckel organized a terror force to recruit workers for transport and ordered recalcitrant laborers placed in shackles. They also charged Hitler threatened to assume direct rule of France if more slave labor was not provided.
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Neurnberg
Frits Gauckel
International War Crimes Tribunal
Vichy
Germany
Pierre Leval
Sauckel
Nature Helps to Avert Civil War in Iran
Iran delays civil conflict by weather halting the Azerbaijan premier Jafar Pishevari from Tehran. Central officials credit the pause with enabling resumed negotiations over the province’s status under central jurisdiction. army reinforcements have moved to frontier stations.
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Iran
Tehran
Jafar Pishevari
Azerbaijan
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Joe Bergin
State Aeronautical
Feng
EF. Allen Batemen
Bergin
Central Utah
State Office
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey of Public Instruction
Colorado
Homeville
U.a
Flanagan
Dixie
Washington County
Venezuelas
Northwestern University
C. H. Mughes
Rochester
Police Department
Theodore Maiach
Rupertor Auto Service
Promat
Haaplel
Inotic
Beevice
Geo. McCurdy
Mgr. Vernal Ula
Phene
Vernal
Rae Ania Sani
Ashley Woolgrowers Association
Uintah Cattle Growers Association
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