Word: utah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. James Cruze, 58, longtime cinedirector (Old Ironsides, The Covered Wagon, Merton of the Movies) of a heart ailment; in Hollywood. Born James Cruze Bosen, one of 23 children of Mormon parents, in Ogden, Utah, he was an actor in cinema's early days, became one of the highest-paid and fastest-working directors of the silents. At one time Paramount paid him $1,000 a day every day in the year whether he worked or not. The second of his three wives was Actress Betty Compson...
...onetime famed FBIman, Reed Ernest Vetterli, whose career could yield a dozen detective yarns, is in the middle of his hardest case: trying to get elected to Congress as a Republican in Utah's heavily New Deal Second District. His platform: support the President in the war; get new blood into Congress...
...Utah, section hands of the Southern Pacific will begin next week to tear up the stretch of track between Corinne and Lucin. There in 1869 the Gold Spike* (now in a San Francisco bank vault) was driven to mark the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. The track will be sold to the Navy as scrap, add to the 1,000 miles of rail tracks torn up for scrap in the U.S. in the last six months...
...Manpower shortages in Utah mines run up to 40%, cutting June tonnage as much as 50% at some shafts: U.S. Smelting's & Refining's Midvale smelter is so short of ore that it is running at only two-thirds of capacity...
...Bechtel Prize in Philosophy of $100, awarded to a student in philosophy for the best essay on an approved subject, was won by Rulon S. Wells III, of Salt Lake City, Utah, a third-year graduate student, for an essay on the subject "Linguistic Particularism...