Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chickens on the Third Floor. Pipe-smoking Publisher Nicholson* has been all over the newspaper shop. He started as a newsboy, later reported for the Richmond (Ind.) Item, was a youthful foreign correspondent after World War I, managed the Japan Advertiser in Tokyo, cleaned up the New York Graphic. He and David E. Smiley own the Tampa Times...
...have heard of many people who have claimed that they have come across the original of this letter in their belongings. The explanation of this is that in 1936 a well known bank in Richmond had a printing firm reproduce this letter in such a form as to make it appear as if it were an original old manuscript. . . . These aged-looking copies were then sent by this bank to their customers in order to promote a loan plan. . . . The copies were so well done that they could fool an inexperienced observer. . . . This bank did not have permission from...
...West Coast came to the melancholy end of a shipbuilding era last week. In Henry J. Kaiser's record-holding Richmond Shipbuilding Corp. Yard No. 2 in California, the S.S. Benjamin Warner (named after the father of Hollywood's Warner brothers) slid into San Francisco Bay. It was the 1,147th Liberty ship launched on the West Coast-and the last...
...Liberties are still being finished at East Coast yards. But no more keels will be laid, East or West. Already Richmond No. 2, and most of the other yards, are building the faster Victory ship (15 knots) and a shoal of Navy craft, C-4 troop transports, LSTs, frigates. But the feverish shipbuilding in which Richmond No. 2 built a Liberty in seven days is ended...
...ships will have to end with the war. The yards will compete for a maximum number of ships we can hope to build, about one hundred a year. What will happen to the other yards? We don't know the answer." But the tin-hatted workers in Richmond No. 2 could make a sound guess. The payroll at Kaiser's four Richmond yards has dropped from 93,000 to 73,000. It is still going down...