More Telephones For Rural Homes After the War
A joint committee of Bell and independent telephone company representatives forms to expand postwar farm telephone service. The group aims to extend service at low cost, increase lines on existing rural routes, and explore rural carrier systems over power lines and microwave options with REA cooperatives, to reach more rural families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell
United States
John P. Boylan
United States Independent Telephone Association
Keith S. McHugh
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bell Operating Companies
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Rural Electrification Administration
REA _ co-operatives
Seven year old Tommy refuses inferiority complex
A seven year old boy reports self confidence about school. When asked how he was doing, he says he is “the fastest one in the slow group,” illustrating a humorous take on his progress without dwelling on limitations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy
Texas Regulars Share of State Vote Falls to 11.77 Percent
Rep. Wright Patman reports statewide totals from November results showing Democrats 823,748 votes 71.75 percent Republicans 189,132 16.48 percent and Texas Regulars 135,186 11.77 percent. In 11 of 21 districts Regulars outpaced Republicans but never beyond 20 percent of total.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Texas
Wright Patman
Texarkana
Houston
Albert Thomas
British Home Guard Disbands Amid London Parades
Britain’s Home Guard demobilized on Sunday after a four and a half year war effort. King George VI lauded the volunteers in a radio address praising their courage and nationwide mobilization from villages and towns across Britain and Northern Ireland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Britain
Home Guard
George VI
Northern Ireland
Citation in Sherman suit over broken chain of title
Texas citation directs George R. Bandy heirs and other trustees to appear by January 1, 1945 to answer Mrs. N. O. Kreager's suit in Grayson County District Court. Plaintiff seeks fee simple title to Lots 2 and 4 in Block 18 of Christian Addition, Sherman, claiming ten years adverse possession and cloud removal. Court clerk S. V. Earnest issues the order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF
Texas
George R. Bandy
T. J. Brown
H. O. Head
District Court
Grayson County
Court House
Sherman
N. O. Kreager
J. Brown
A. D
G. B. Pilant
S. V. Earnest
Nancy Drake
Shell workers offer 16 hour day for eight hour pay
In Fort Worth American Manufacturing Co workers, producing 105 mm shells, propose a 16 hour day for the pay of eight to boost output. Officials decline citing the Fair Labor Standards Act, but agree to allow double shifts with time and a half when production lags. A worker whose son was killed in action aboard Leyte supports the bid.
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Fort Worth
American Manufacturing Co
Ike Eisenhower
General Eisenhower
Leyte
H. E. Hedgepeth
W. Third
Stafford Page
American
Hedgepeth
War Department
Jack B. Hedgepeth
Roy G. McBride
Mr. Page
Texas Farm Income Up 11 Percent From 1943
Texas farm cash income in October rose 11 percent from October 1943, reaching 179 million dollars versus 161 million. For the first ten months of 1944 income totaled over 913 million, up from 890 million a year earlier, a gain near 3 percent.
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Texas
Austin
F. A. Buechel
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
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Shell
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M. & P. Bank Building
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Hugh Herbert
Sweet
Tiger Woman
Arnold Pressburger
Dick Powell
Linda Darnell
Jack Oakie
Vee
Edgar Kennedy
Sig Ruman
George Cleveland
Edward Brophy
Fata
Salt Lake Diversion
Pathe News
Preston Foster
Victor McLaglen
Lois Andrews
Kent Taylor
Robert Florey
Lee Marcus
Cooper
Cecil B. DeMille
Paramount
Cecil B.demille
Teese
In’ Technicolor
Ozark
Mwe Peon Ils
Ore Kruger
Idvarde Daniel Robert Livingston
Mone Barril Storm
Lisbon
Kansas City
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