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...started when one night last winter Mrs. Philip Burnham of Wilmington, Del. could not go to the Red Cross to fold bandages. Mr. Burnham went instead. Delaware bandage-folding has not been the same since...
Getting to Work. Before the war, more than half U.S. passenger-car mileage was for business purposes. As gas and rubber supplies got short and employment soared, local transit business in Charleston, S.C. skyrocketed 622% last year; in Wilmington, N.C. 522%. War workers ride to & from Baltimore and Pittsburgh suburbs on wooden benches plunked into boxcars. Yet for 1943 only 3,000 new busses have been authorized, only 220 new trolleys...
...SMATHERS Wilmington...
Married. Gwladys Hopkins ("Gee") Whitney, 37, ex-wife of Multimillionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney; and Corporal Josiah Marvel Jr., 37, ex-politico; in Wilmington. A Democrat, he missed the Governorship of Delaware by 700 votes...
...SAMUEL ROSEN U.S. Coast Guard Patrol Base Wilmington, Calif...