Land Bridge Across Pacific By Corey Ford
A wartime narrative chronicles American operations from Alaska toward Kiska in August and September. U S Flotilla transports, fighter planes, and bombers establish a base on Kiska, with heavy weather, rugged landing conditions, and ongoing air campaigns to push Japanese forces from the island. President Roosevelt notes multiple routes toward Tokyo and commitment to the broader war effort.
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Aleutians
Kiskateland
Salmon Lagoon
Japan
Kiska Island
Narukima
VA. S. Army
Andreanoff
Kiska
Alaska
U. S
Boya
Navy
Tokyo
Roosevelt
Washington Digest on Victory and the Enemy Balance
An excerpt discusses Allied odds and enemy strengths including Germany Japan and Italy, noting manpower, navy, airpower, and industrial capacity. It argues Americans must be patient, prepare for postwar changes, and highlights education reform and veterans’ needs for practical transition into peacetime society.
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Commission On Liberal Education
The
Association of American Colleges
Briefer Rules on Home Canned Foods and Swedish Policy
Fooda rules for home canned goods set by OPA outline conditions for official approval including kitchen use and separate canning buildings with local ration board permission. Swedish Foreign Minister Guenther told Eskilstuna radio that neutral powers cannot balance all warring camps, saying Sweden is making concessions to Germany more than to the western powers.
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Opa
Christian E. Guenther
Eskilstuna
Sweden
Germany
Hoerby Radio
Office of War Information
Miracle on Farm Front To Meet New Food Goal
The article argues total war demands total production, detailing a shift from past WWI farming to today’s methods. It notes soil erosion lessons from the last war, the lure of new land, and a postwar push for higher yields, especially wheat, amid a big plow-up of acreage.
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America
Conservation Boosts Farm Output After Dust Bowl
The dust bowl blaze ten years ago sparked a national wake up about soil erosion. Conservation farming rose as the Soil Conservation Service and the AAA adapted early erosion techniques, turning land protection into a core national farm program objective aiding the United Nations crisis response.
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Atlantic Seaboard
America
Soil Conservation Service
AAA
United Nations
Curculio Threatens 1943 Peach Crop
Dr Clyde Smith says curculio beetles are ten times more numerous than in 1942 and could ruin this year’s harvest. He urges four controls: jar and destroy adults, spray properly, pick up all dropped fruit, and cultivate beneath trees after wormy fruit ceases dropping.
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Clyde ¥. Smith
State Experiment Station
North Carolina State College
Smith
Farm Notes on Pasture and Soil Improvement
Farm notes advise pasturing young pigs on clean ground pastures freed of worms and disease by plowing. They note most farms have multiple soil types and could rearrange field boundaries to grow hay or pasture crops more efficiently.
Ask Me Another General Quiz Era
A compact trivia card asking ten questions about language history numerals place names and naval terms. It covers dactylogram pseudonyms autonyms William Henry Harrison nickname Tippecanoe PT boats origin squeeze play in sports and how battle updates reach engineers in control rooms.
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Lincoln Highway
William H. Harrison
Navy
Answers and Terms From a Historical Quiz Card
A compact list presents items including fingerprint record, Alfred Tennyson, New York and San Francisco, five years, pseudonym and autonym meanings, a note on Tippecanoe river defeat, patrol torpedo boats, sand, baseball, and a running loud speaker update from the ship's supply officer.
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Alfred Tennyson
New York
San Francisco
Tippecanoe River
Flattering Lines Dress Pattern No 8360s
Sewing Circle Pattern No 8360s offers a flattering front button frock in prints for spring. Sizes 14 to 44 include 984 yards of 39 inch material for size 16 with short sleeves and 34 yards for contrasting collar. War demand slows some orders. send 20 cents per pattern to Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Chicago.
National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel
A new card file named The National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel lists 700000 specialists. It enables quick, machine sortable access for American firms and government offices to locate scientists and experts on short notice.
Range finder on battleship costs 38000 dollars and takes 18 months
A modern range finder on a large battleship contains 160 lenses and 1500 mechanical parts. It weighs five tons and requires a year and a half to construct, or half the time to build the entire vessel.
Household Tips for Papering and Baking Adjustments
Rough lime and sand wells can be smoothed for papering by coat ing with plastic paint containing gypsum. Yt sonia' article of wearing apparel or Hnen'Kag too much bluing in it soak for several hours in warm water with vinegar. Bake with nothing else in oven and place cake center. Vary doughnuts with chopped dates nutmeats or coconut. Corn meal puddings require cold water mixing to avoid lumps.
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Sonia
Ameter
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