Foreign Farm Leaders Plan Study in U S
Twenty four young European farm leaders and technicians from Austria Belgium Denmark the Netherlands and Norway arrived at University Farm St Paul Sunday to begin six months study of U S agricultural methods The group funded by the Mutual Security Agency will be hosted by the University of Minnesota Extension Service led by Kelehan Granite Falls They will spend three months on farms and one month in county extension offices then take a six week course at a state or land grant college until they return to Europe
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St. Paul
U. S
Mutual Security Agency
MSA
U. S. Department of Agriculture and Land Grant Colleges
P. E. Miller
University of Minnesota
Agricultural Extension Service
C. M. Kelehan
Granite Falls
Minnesota
Austria
Belgium
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Netherlands
Norway
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Wadena
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Clay
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Marshall
New York
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Grandma Moses
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Gloria Swanson
Arthur Murray
Gertrude Lawrence
Grandma
French CGT Calls 24 Hour Paris Walkout Over Crackdown
The CGT in France issues a 24 hour strike in the Paris area protesting government weekend actions against the Reds. Workers are urged to lay down tools upon returning after Pentecost, following a similar nationwide walkout call last week. CGT has about three million members.
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Paris
French Confederation of Labor
CGT
Simmering Defines Cooking Under Boiling Point
To simmer is to cook in liquid just below boiling, at 185 to 210 degrees Fahrenheit. Bubbling forms slowly and breaks below the surface.
How to Attain Success Be Born a Grandmother
HAL BOYLE notes the modern grandma as a dynamic figure thriving in arts politics business and media. He cites Mary Roberts Rinehart Franklin D Roosevelt Kirsten Flagstad and Gertrude Lawrence as prominent examples while urging grandmothers to lead in many fields and enjoy renewed vigor and influence.
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Franklin D Roosevelt
Kirsten Flagstad
Granny
Atomic bomb power versus TNT and notable trivia
Q How much more powerful is an atom bomb than its TNT weight A Nearly twenty million times as powerful. Q What acids vital to human proteins A Amino acids. Q Who holds the all time single season home run record A Babe Ruth with 60 in 1926. Q Who was Cesare Borgia's military engineer A Leonardo da Vinci, famous 15th century Italian painter.
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Babe Ruth
Cesare Borgia
Leonardo da Vinci
Heavy Cutworm Toll Expected in South State Crops
University of Minnesota entomologist A A Granovsky warns cutworms will cause heavy damage to ornamentals, raw crops, transplants, and field crops across west central and southeastern Minnesota. He urges prompt control using DDT or chlordane dust, with specific application rates, and notes nozzle-clogging risks with wettable powders in weed-spraying gear.
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A. A. Granovksy
University of Minnesota
West Central
Minnesota
Granovsky
Notre Dame Coach Alex Wilson Aced 440 and 880 as Student
Alex Wilson, then an undergraduate at Notre Dame in South Bend, ran undefeated in the 440 yard and 880 yard events. His dual dominance highlighted his early track prowess at the university.
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Alex Wilson
Notre Dame
South Bend
Blood Flows in China Says Retired Admiral
Washington retired Adm. Charles M. Cooke Jr cites Nationalist sources claiming 15 million killed in Red purges on the mainland and one million guerrillas executed in 14 months. He says deaths reach into the millions, noting brutal executions of suspected supporters and urging U.S. help to recapture the mainland.
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Washington
Charles M. Cooke, Jr
China
Formosa
Chiang Kai-shek
Cooke
U.S. Seventh Fleet
Far East
U. S. News and World Report
United States
Oil Stove Fire Fatal to British Woman
Esther Reade aged 104, one of Britain’s oldest residents, died yesterday in Cheltenham when an overturned oil stove ignited a pile of papers in her cottage. A former nurse who worked with Florence Nightingale, she reportedly smoked heavily and kept a daily bet on the horses.
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England
Esther Reade
Britain
Miss Heade
Florence Nightingale
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