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November 2, 1947

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OVERTURE TO MANIFEST DESTINY; " Across the Wide Missouri" Illumines The Forces That Secured Our Far West ACROSS THE WIDE MISSOURI. By Bernard DeVoto. Illustrated with paintings by Alfred Jacob Miller, Charles Bodmer and George Catlin. With an Account of the Discovery of the Miller Collection by Mrs. Clyde Porter. 384 pp. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $10. Overture to Manifest Destiny

By Struthers Burt

THIS is Bernard Devoto at his best, and when you have said that, you have said a lot. In fact, you have come pretty near to using the adjective magnificent. As he has proven repeatedly, this author has a passion as strong as a Chinook wind -- as just, and as lucid, as the mountain-clearness of the original American idea.

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STABILIZATION SET IN STEEL INDUSTRY; No Change for Next Quarter Is Forecast on Production, Prices and Inventories LEVELS REMAIN EXPANDED Rapid Growth in Applications of Products May See 1948 as Dawn of 'Metals Age'

By Hartley W. Barclay

A period of stabilization of prices, inventories and production volume looms in industry for the next quarter as a result of assurances last week by Irving S. Olds, chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, that no consideration had been given to an advance in steel prices, distributors and industrial executives revealed here yesterday.

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Notable Births

Dave Pegg

1947Dave Pegg, English bass player and producer[†]

Dave Pegg is an English multi-instrumentalist and record producer, primarily a bass guitarist. He is the longest-serving member of the British folk rock band Fairport Convention and has been bassist with a number of folk and rock groups including the Ian Campbell Folk Group and Jethro Tull.

Kate Linder

1947Kate Linder, American actress[†]

Kate Linder is an American actress, best known for her role as Esther Valentine on The Young and the Restless, which she has played since 1982. After appearing in the soap opera for more than 40 years, she is one of the longest serving actors on an American soap opera. Linder received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2008, and was honored at The Hollywood Museum in 2022.

Historical Events

Howard Hughes

1947In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built until Scaled Composites rolled out their Stratolaunch in May 2017.[†]

Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was an American aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, and investor. He was one of the richest and most influential people in the world during his lifetime. He first became prominent as a film producer, and then as an important figure in the aviation industry. Later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle—oddities that were caused in part by his worsening obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), chronic pain from a near-fatal plane crash, and increasing deafness.