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Mobilized. In Wilmington, Del., a 15-year-old was found counterfeiting nickels by remolding his lead soldiers...
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Divorced. William du Pont Jr., 46, banker-sportsman member of the Wilmington Du Ponts; from Jean Austin du Pont, his wife for 22 years; for cruelty; in Reno. Brushing aside questions about whether he meant to marry Tennist Alice Marble, Banker du Pont rushed to pack his bags, fly to see his Fairy Chant lose the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap...
...Blumberg, New York City, Harvard '39; Case Editor, Carl Cherin, Denmark, Wis., University of Wisconsin '37; Note Editors, Charles F. Barber, Chicago, Illinois, Northwestern University '39, Stanley M. Silverberg, New York City, College of the City of New York '39; and Book Review Editor, Edward G. Howard, Jr., of Wilmington, Del., University of Pennsylvania...
...project preparing to go on three 48-hour shifts a week to turn out twelve destroyers (costing $97,200,000). To build 75 of the standardized 7,500-ton freighters, under President Roosevelt's new 200 emergency ship program, yards were under construction at Houston, New Orleans and Wilmington, N. C. At Mobile, Ala., new Gulf Shipbuilding Co. yards were working on their first contract (four cargo ships worth about $12,000,000). Norfolk, Va. had a newcomer in Welding Shipyards, Inc. (starting off with a $4,000,000 tanker...