Cooperation With Mexico Boosts Agriculture Across Two Nations
Washington analysts highlight U.S. Mexico cooperation in agriculture through the Inter-American Conference on Agriculture and the U.S. Mexican commission. Projects combat pink bollworm and fruit fly pests using shared knowledge, sterilization, and a Panama wasp predator. Mexican officials, led by Minister Marte Gomez, study in U.S. and Mexico, strengthening mutually beneficial ties and peaceful postwar collaboration.
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WNU
Union Trust
Washington, D. C
Washington
Mexico City
Department of Agriculture
United States
Mexico
Senor Marte Gomez
Wickard
Americas
Messerschmidt
Congress
Egypt
Atlantic
Nile
Rio Grande
Laguna
Texas
Panama
Gomez
California
P. M. Amlee
Bureau of Foreign Agricultural Relations
United States- Mexican Commission
Public Health Act Spurs Tuberculosis Drive
The national tuberculosis control program starts under the new Public Health Service act signed July 3. The report notes a Vichy radio appeal for English speakers to join the network. It also cites Japan’s Comet agency signaling German air weakness as “mysterious.” Five hundred delousing stations are planned in Romania to fight typhus.
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Comet Agency
East Asia
Germany
Europe
Romania
Republic of Iceland Makes Bow in Unsettled World
The article describes Iceland’s shift from a kingdom to a republic, its coat of arms legend in Washington, and details about its size population geography and economy. It notes Reykjavik as a major population center and explains heating with hot spring water and Gulf Stream effects on climate. Third-person overview of Icelandic features.
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Republic of Iceland
Konungsrikid Island
Iceland
Washington
Kingdom of Iceland
Lydveldid Island
Ohio
Cleveland
Arctic Circle
North Atlantic
Reykjavik
New York
Tobacco Acreage Can Be Increased in the North
Quality tobacco is being grown in Wisconsin and Connecticut along with other northern states. State and federal tests show northern cultivation is viable on hillside and marginal land. Nicotine demand now centers on non smoking uses and new by products from the tobacco plant support war needs. Goats and other animals are proposed to ease labor shortages by clearing fields in military and farm applications.
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Great Britain
England
Ministry of Labor
Wisconsin
Connecticut
Keeping Children Busy To Prevent Delinquency In War Time
The piece notes rising juvenile delinquency during World War I and calls for preventive programs. Welfare groups churches and schools urge athletics manual labor applied sciences hobbies summer camps farm work social clubs forum discussions supervised dancing dramatics and music training to channel youth energy constructively.
Programs to fill gaps when war interferes with home life
The survey says lack of trained leadership hinders programs and that war conditions prevent centering a child’s life at home. It urges agencies to fill the void and keep children engaged in healthy enterprises to forestall delinquency.
Canning Arithmetic Guides Homemakers
Arithmetic helps homemakers plan canning work efficiently by showing expected yields from fruits and vegetables. The guide lists yields per fruit or vegetable such as berries cherries peas carrots strawberries and notes quarts pints and pounds needed to produce one quart or one pint.
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Monterey
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Vichy
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S Army Corps
U.S. Army
U.S. Army Recruiting Station
WAC
Wacs
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