Word: renton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Test Case. In Renton, Wash., explaining that he did not want to knock at a neighbor's door to see if his brother and sister were inside, Roy M. Redfield, 18, admitted setting fire to the barn "so I could tell when everyone...
Born. To Harry Renton Bridges, 46, recently ousted northern California regional director of the C.I.O. (but still head of its International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union), and second wife Nancy Fenton Berdecio Bridges, 35, onetime professional dancer: their second child, his, third, a son; in San Francisco. Name: Harry Renton Jr. Weight...
...afternoon last week, workers on B-29s in Boeing's Seattle and Renton, Wash, plants lifted their heads at the sudden blare of loudspeakers. In short, crisp sentences, the bad news came. The U.S. Army, which had planned to cut back Boeing's B-29 production gradually, had suddenly decided to swing the big ax. Instead of 122 B-29s this month, it wanted only 50; instead of 20 next month, it wanted only...
Next day, the Seattle plant shut down entirely; the Renton plant closed everything but the final assembly line. Cheerfully, 21,200 of the 29,000 workers lined up outside the plants to be paid off (see cut). Said one, grinning: "I knew it wouldn't last much longer anyway...
...west to trouble-shoot a critical manpower problem at Boeing Aircraft Co.'s plant (Renton, Wash.), WPB Chairman Julius A. Krug is stopping off this week in his home town of Madison, Wis. The citizens have something for him to see. They want to show him the R.M.R. Corp. plant, where practically everybody in Madison works at one time or another, turning out special batteries for Army walkie-talkie sets...