Many Sections Fearful Of New Dust Bowl in 46
A 1946 Dust Bowl warning fits Kansas Oklahoma and Texas as a dry winter raises fears of new dust storms. Wheat damage reported in Pratt and Liberal Kansas with late snows lifting some lands west of Hutchinson. Amarillo editors and farmers debate threat, while governments urge prudent farming and leave stubble to hold soil.
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Kansas
Oklahoma
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Redlands
Pratt
Liberal
Kans
Tutchinson
Amarillo
Tex
Gene Howe
Dust Bowl
Texas
U. S
Sds
Kansan: Dry cycle predicted by 1934 sunspot article
Pratt Daly Tribune reprint notes Pred Reece forecast drought cycles 47 years ago. Fred cites 1934 Sun Spots article predicting a new dry period in 1946, with wheat crops affected by subsoil moisture and surface heat, dust bowl memories guiding next years.
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PRATT
Kans
Reece
Pratt Daly Tribune
Fred
Drought Fears Meet Skepticism Across Plains
Kansans and Texans scoff at a U S Department of Agriculture forecast of a new drouth. Farmers recall the dust bowl era but trust rain will come, as memories of grasshoppers blizzards and hardship shape outlooks in 1930s history.
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Topeka
Kans
Kansas
Texas
Oklahom
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Eck Brown
Dalhart
Tex
Agriculture Department
Sooners
Engineers from 30 nations study U S irrigation methods
In 1945 more than 10 engineers from 30 foreign counties visited the United States to study reclamation and irrigation projects. They returned home to aid similar works in their countries led by 66 engineers from China. India, Australia, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan also participated.
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Washington
D. C
United States
China
India
Australia
Iran
Iyag
Syria
Afghanistan
Washington Digest on Housing Bill and Sovereignty Clash
A Washington Digest column surveys the housing bill battles in Congress, noting Taft’s unlikely support and the subsidy and price peeling elements, then shifts to Nathaniel Peffer’s World War II realism, arguing Americans may have to sacrifice sovereignty for a broader world order amid postwar diplomacy and Russia-Nazi asset concerns.
Housing shortage and policy gaps cited by CIO
The CIO booklet argues housing shortfalls grow from no housing policy while other policy areas run smoothly. It warns that by year’s end about 3.5 million families may be homeless unless they double up or are taken in by relatives, and notes veterans could become a key organized pressure force.
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CIO
Wornout Land Needs Cultivation And Fertilizing to Regain Vigor
University of Illinois expert Hackleman urges restoring worn pastures with five steps: soil testing and mineral treatment, proper seedbed prep, reseeding with legumes and grasses, controlled grazing for a year, and weed clipping. War-era expansion of cultivated acres ups demand for legumes, with lime and rock phosphate boosting alfalfa and clover yields.
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J. ©. Hackleman
University of Illinois College of Agriculture
Hackleman
53 000 New Farms Planned for Missouri Basin
Former interior secretary Harold L. Ickes estimated before leaving office that over 400 irrigation and multi purpose projects are needed. about 53 000 new irrigated farms could be created in the Missouri basin if proposed reclamation schemes are carried out, providing hydro energy and rural electrification.
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Missouri
Washington, D. C
Harold L. Ickes
Interior
United States
West
U. S
Ickes
Barbs and Bets on Bargaining and Battle Colors
The piece notes that the term collective bargaining originated in London in 1891 with Beatrice Webb and spread in the U S via Samuel Gompers of the AFL. It also mentions linoleum made from coal plastics and includes a vignette about colors red brown and green tied to blood mud and Normandy.
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London
Beatrice Webb
Samuel Gompers
AFL
20Th Century Fund
Marshal Montgomiery
Normandy
Making Over Old or Sewing New Curtains
Instructions 29 offers directions for six curtains and promotes reuse of old fabrics. Due to high demand some orders for popular pattern numbers require slight adjustments, with customers urged to send their orders in promptly.
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Yustround
Drouth
Kansan
New Drouth
Plains States
ANS
OKLA
Ran Pian
Washington Digest
Congress
Taft
Backhage
WNU
Eye Street
N.W
D.C
America
Sen
Robert Taft
Ohio
Senate
CI0
Ghanges
Yangtse
Euphrates
Tings
Irrawaddy
Nathaniel Peffer
Saturday Review of Literature
Peffer
Europe
Asia
Nuernberg
Jesus
Mephistophelian
Mr. Peller
Lloyd George
World Organization
State Department
Britain
France
Russia
Labor
Senator Vandenberg
Byrnés
Bankhage
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
San Francisco
Calif
Vicks VA
McKesson & Robbins
Lydia
Pinkham
Pinkhim
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