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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army already has four longtime tractor-makers at work: Caterpillar, International Harvester, Allis-Chalmers and Cleveland Tractor. Besides that, two big plants have recently been switched from tank production: American Car & Foundry's at Berwick, Pa. and the new ordnance plant at Decatur, Ill., which got ready for production too late to be needed for tanks. Next month when they are due to be in full swing the tractor program will get a real shot...
Roseland was started by a Philadelphia accountant named Louis Brecker, who had a passion for dancing and a simple ambition to make a million dollars. His partner was a Pottsville, Pa. brewer named Frank D. Yuengling. Brecker had decided that the public wanted cheap but respectable dance halls. Brecker's first Roseland, in Philadelphia, repaid his investment in six months...
...Hired by Albert (Argyrol) Barnes to lecture at his art foundation in Merion, Pa., Russell was ousted when terrible-tempered Mr. Barnes tired of him (TIME...
Wynnewood, Pa...
...bald President Frederick Ely Williamson, 67, took over the key eastern region with the rank of colonel. Six other major railroad heads also became uniformed colonels overnight-then continued at their desks. (A lieutenant was even assigned to a four-mile-long, two-employe railroad in Strasburg, Pa. Four days later the Army decided the road could run without his help.) In Washington, the Army's able Chief of Transportation, Major General C. P. Gross, and his knowing staff of borrowed railroadmen, continued to work closely with the railroads in the titanic task of shuttling troops and supplies across...