Ten Per Cent of Army Veterans Want to Be Farmers
A wartime survey shows 75 per cent of officers and enlisted men have definite postwar plans. Seven per cent intend to start small businesses, and ten per cent plan to operate farms. Many expect to work for wages, attend school, or seek government jobs, with migration patterns uncertain and farm land supply a concern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter A. Shead
Washington
United States Army
Maadle
Information and Education Division
Army
Paifie
Misrakion
North Central
Enghen
Middle Atlantic
Mountain
Endire
Wbont
Pearl Harbor
Nir
Civil Service Commission
United States
Federal
Department of Agriculture
American Historical Association
The
Armed Forces Institute
Government Printing Office
Washington 25
D.C
Hollywood Radio Stars Parade and New Casting News
Virginia IsaLE Langford heads the Radio Stars on Parade segment for RKO with Wally Brown Alan Carney and Ralph Edwards in a kitchen-sink revival set featuring custard pies. Joan Edwards breaks precedent as Your Hit Parade’s new star. she returns from Hollywood with offers from major studios. new casts address Bedlam inmates in Chamber of Horrors while Andy Russell expands into manufacturing after a film debut. Connee Boswell joins Swing Parade singing Stormy Weather, and other showbiz notes touch Bogart mishap Lee Karloff Chamber of Horrors and Krupa African drumming lecture plans.
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Joan Edwards
Joan
Hollywood
20Th Century-Fox
Warmer Bros
Yenpore Beach
Humphrey Bogart
Mrs. Bogart
Anna Lee
Boris Karloff
Chamber of Horrors
Bob Lowery
Laguna Beach
Richhard Gargantas
Gene Krupa
Kathleen Norris on peace and shared sacrifice in world crisis
The piece argues the world faces a new kind of turmoil beyond war and urges universal generosity. It cites a missionary wife Maria Pendleton Smith and calls for simple living, giving, and Christ’s law to build inner peace and global fellowship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maria Pendleton Smith
Christ
Smit
Sharing Our Plenty in Wartime Ideals
A reader argues Americans should limit living standards and share surplus clothing food fuel and medicine with Europe and Asia after noting the relative wartime comfort at home. The column praises religious fervor and long range statecraft to abolish war and poverty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Miss Norris
Europe
Asia
Button Brigade Helps Soldiers With Sewing Service
Beverly Hills branch of the American Women’s Voluntary Services organizes a Button Brigade. Two weekly visits to nearby camps with four sewing machines and ironing boards, sewing on buttons, service stripes, and full alterations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly Hills
American Women's Voluntary Services of
Southern California
Argentina Population and History Overview
The text states Argentina has over 13 million people with 53 thousand Indians reported. It notes 6 million immigrants between 1858 and 1907, Spaniards exploring and settling in the 16th century, and a period of Spanish rule until 1416. It mentions civil strife until 1853 and a U S inspired constitution afterward.
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Argentina
U. S
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