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...night of a pay day at Camp Crowder (near Joplin, Mo.), when the troops had received about $1,000,000 in pay, 16 soldiers were arrested for drunkenness-less than one in a thousand...
MISSOURI: McKim Marriott, St. Louis; Earl W. Stevick, Joplin; Robert L. Winter II, Kansas City...
MISSOURI: McKim Marriott, St. Louis; Earl W. Stevick, Joplin; Robert L. Winter II, Kansas City...
There were five blasts in U. S. explosives plants in the first five months of 1940, then none until Aug. 7, when things began to happen fast, 1) At King Powder Co., Kings Mills, Ohio, which makes dynamite, blasting powder, three were killed. 2) At the Atlas plant, Joplin, Mo., which turns out 1,000,000 lb. of TNT monthly for Great Britain, on Aug. 16, five were killed. 3) At Du Font's dynamite plant at Gibbstown, N. J., six days later, four were killed. 4) At the Hercules plant at Kenvil, N. J., in the biggest explosion...
...centrifugal force for Director Wood's sentiment is the impudent, pug-nosed, forlorn little face of Hollywood's latest Cinderella-Betty Brewer, 13. Three years ago Betty's father, a Joplin, Mo. lead miner, lost his job, went on relief. The following year he joined the Okie parade to California, where he joined a hunger strike at the State Capitol in Sacramento. But Betty didn't like that. This is her story: "I decided we weren't gonna go on relief in Sacramento. So Ilene [her younger sister] and me worked out a plan...