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...labor and housing of large urban centres. With an estimated 20 new explosive plants on Government books (five or six already a-building), the U. S. hoped to prevent the dreaded boom town-ghost town cycle. One solution: a Government plan to build 1,000 $2,500 homes near Radford, Va. (site of a new $35,000,000 plant to be built by Hercules Powder Co.) on land leased from farmers. The homes would house workers as long as needed, then be sold to the farmers to provide better housing for their families...
Last week in Washington the War Department grabbed time by the forelock, signed a $16,075,000 order for smokeless powder to be turned out by Hercules Powder Co. (operators of the famed Charleston, W. Va. nitro plant of 1918) from a mill still to be built near Radford, Va. Only the week before the Army had signed a $25,000,000 contract with Hercules to put up the plant and operate it on a cost-plus basis. It was the second construction contract to be let in 1940's defense emergency for a powder mill to be operated...
...John Radford Abbet, Jr., George Augustus Barnard, 3rd, Robert Adams Bastille, Richard Milton Bloch, John Lodge Cady, Robert Manley Chase, Francis Lester Dawson, Henry Hinckley Dearing, Jr., Emil Ludwig Ebert, Norman Clifford Farnlof, John Reed Friar, Robert Loring Glass...
...Bassetto (basset horn, a wind instrument). That he was also an amateur composer was revealed last week when Arthur Pforzheimer, Manhattan rare book dealer, exhibited manuscripts of two sweet Shaw songs, / Lack Thy Kisses and Here She Comes, written in 1884 to verses by a friend, a Miss Radford. > Last fortnight the Basle, Switzerland radio station broadcast a gay little opera buffa, La Contadina, by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, second-rank 18th-Century composer. Mislaid in the Brussels Royal Library, the score had gone unperformed for two centuries. A scholar found it last year...
Charles II. Howell, Radford police chief, last night told the CRIMSON that a Mrs. W. B. Thurman had identified Burgess from the picture on the police poster, as had two local barbers. The man said his name was Donald Hicks, and gave the Chicago address of his sales manager to subscribers...