Word: kokomo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Major General William E. Kepner, 53, will finally get his diploma from Kokomo (Ind.) High School...
Thirty-two other veterans of World War II who left Kokomo before they finished school will get diplomas too. School Superintendent C. V. Haworth, winking a bit at the rules, figures that the knowledge the boys picked up at war is at least the equivalent of a high-school education...
...same story, at the same hour, in other sections of Detroit, at Fleetwood Plant, at Chevrolet Gear & Axle. It was the same at the iron foundry in Saginaw, at Fisher Body Plant in Flint, at Delco-Remy in Muncie, Ind., at Delco Radio in Kokomo. It was the same at the warehouses in Los Angeles and Denver, at 80 G.M. plants in more than 50 cities in 19 states. A button had been pushed in Detroit and 175,000 U.S. men & women laid down their tools. Reconversion would have to wait...
...next system is a plan to eliminate the statistical delays which kept Purp's allotments always weeks behind time; a plan to relieve WPB of the burden of trying to calculate how many brass screws each manufacturer in Kokomo, Ind. will need in the month of November; a plan to give producers assurance that when they get a war order they will also get the materials to fulfill it; a plan to give war factories a call not merely on materials that the Government fondly hopes they can have but on materials that they actually...
Onto each U.S. Liberty ship go four 31-passenger Globe American lifeboats, one motor-equipped, all equipped with oars, red sails, water, food, signaling and first-aid equipment. Every day at Kokomo four fully equipped boats are put on a flatcar, shipped to Atlantic, Pacific or Gulf shipyards, there hoisted to the davits of a new U.S. cargo vessel. Day after Franklin Roosevelt announced his Victory Program, Alden Chester wired the Maritime Commission, offered to furnish all lifeboats and life rafts needed for the entire merchant-marine building program-without subcontracting...