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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 35, and ex-Colonel Charles Augustus, 40: their fifth child, fourth son; weight, 9 Ib.; at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Their other living children are: Jon Morrow, 10 (born six months after the kidnap-slaying of two-year-old Charles Augustus Jr.); Land Morrow, 5; Anne Spencer...
Thus wages are the simplest and almost the only practicable way of solving the copper crisis now. If copper wages are raised much OPA will have to do some new figuring on copper prices, for at 12? a Ib. the big companies are already producing some 30% of their copper at a loss (on the OPA theory that they can afford to average the loss out against their lower cost output). Even a 10?-an-hour raise would cost $7,000,000 a year-small pickings compared with the $250,000,000 the Government is paying for domestic copper...
...Wichita, Kans., two ambitious boys sold a filling-station attendant a rubber garden hose loaded with lead, received the rubber-salvage price of 1? per Ib. for their weighted goods. Their salvage price for lead itself would have been 5? per Ib...
Born. To Ethel Merman, musical-comedy star last seen in Panama Hattie, and Husband Robert Levitt, Captain, Quartermaster Corps: a girl. Name: Ethel Merman. Weight: 7 Ib...
...last week of May, a fleet of 29 airline-operated cargo ships hauled 899,000 Ib. of supplies-almost four times as much as Army pilots ever carried-along with 607 military passengers...