Crews May Sign Off Shanghai Ships Says State Department
In Hong Kong on January 4, 29 American crewmen asked the U S State Department to arrange naval protection or release from contract for the Flying Arrow bound for Shanghai. The consul said signing off was authorized and offered loans to return home. Brooklyn Heights crewmen planned to consider similar action ahead of a Saturday Shanghai sailing.
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Hong Kong
U. S. State Department
Flying Arrow
State Department
U. S
Isbrandtsen Line
Red Shanghai
United States
National Maritime Union
Brooklyn Heights
Shanghai
Andrew Jackson and his two brothers in the Revolution
Andrew Jackson had two brothers Hugh and Robert. Hugh was killed in 1779. Andrew and Robert were captured by the British and imprisoned. Robert died of smallpox in captivity. Mrs. Jackson secured their release and cared for the sick in hospitals before dying of prison fever in 1781 leaving fourteen year old Andrew alone.
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Andrew Jackson
Hugh
Robert
Andrew
1950 Crystal Ball Predicts Less Jittery Year Ahead
HAL BOYLE surveys 1950 with forecasts of calmer global tensions, more job worries than atom bombs, and political shifts. It predicts Republican gains in the year’s elections, fiscal quirks like tax repeal on fur coats, and varied pop culture notes from Bing Crosby to wrestling curios.
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New York
Congress
Republican Party
Bing Crosby
Humphrey Bogart
Douglas Macarthur
Savage
Brazil
Albert Einstein
Joseph Stalin
Winston Churchill
Crystal Ball Forecast for 1951 Keeps TV Bright but Home Color Delayed
The piece envisions ongoing growth in television yet notes home color TV remains unavailable. It predicts a bullish stock market, a moustache for Truman during a Key West vacation, then shaving before fall campaigns, and that daily life will echo 1950 with modest aging into 1951.
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Truman
Key West
Farmers and Merchants National Bank Stockholders Meeting
Notice announces the annual stockholders meeting of Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Winchester Virginia to elect directors and conduct other business. The meeting is set for Tuesday January 10 1950 at 11 in the forenoon in the bank's banking rooms with J H Yost as cashier.
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Farmers and Merchants National Bank
Winchester
Virginia
J. H. Yost
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