World War II Chronicle: March 9, 1941
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George Fielding Eliot column on page four… Page seven reports that most of the nation’s 110,000 Reserve officers will conduct field training, and on the next page some soldiers will likely have to stay on active duty longer than a year as the United States stands up six new armored divisions by next fall. Currently we have two… On page 13, the government is buying land for an explosives plant. The Weldon Spring Ordnance Plant Years later produces trinitrotoluene (TNT) and dinitrotoluene during the war, then enriches uranium in the 1950s. The toxic and radioactive byproducts are piled into a 75-foot-tall containment mound which has become somewhat of a tourist attraction and much of the compound is now a conservation area…
Page 16 says another massive plant in Virginia is about to start production. The Radford Army Ammunition Plant will make smokeless powder, and is still in operation today. On 17, Naval Air Station Corpus Christi is about to open. Flight training starts in May… Sports section begins on page 24, featuring a Grantland Rice column. Hugh Mulcahy, the first big-league ballplayer drafted into the service, departs tonight for Camp Edwards in Cape Cod, Mass. for his year of service… 79th week of the war summarized on page 36… Pictures from spring training with the Washington Nationals on page 106.
Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 9 March 1941. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
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