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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1941
Page
2
Edward C. Wayne argues oil reserves in the Middle East redraw the war map with Iraq as a new focal point while the Atlantic theater remains the key ongoing front in the conflict.
The piece analyzes potential Axis advances via North Africa and the Middle East, the risk to Suez and Alexandria, and British-Arab and Iraqi dynamics. It discusses oil pipeline targets at Kirkuk and Haifa, the German and Italian roles, and the looming question of American convoying and possible entry into the war.
The state department issued unlimited licenses to the British Iron & Steel corp and the British purchasing commission allowing customs collectors to accept shipments of specified products to British territories without license forms. Stettinius ordered blanket priority ratings for airplane frame, engine, and propeller production to speed U.S. and British military aircraft output. He announced inventory control plans for 16 vital defense metals to prevent excess stocks in industry.
Edward A. O Nea l American Farm Bureau president told the House Ways and Means committee that taxes are for national defense. He argued higher tobacco and gasoline levies would cut funds available for farm products.
This round features trivia on geographic, historical, and scientific topics. Questions cover Bering Strait width, thimbleriggers, polar ice behavior, St Paul’s Thessalonian epistles, smallest deer, pewter composition, Grand Banks location, Brazil versus US size, and founder of psycho-analysis.
A collection of varied items including distance fifty six miles a swindler with three thimbles and a pea, polar bear foot hair for traction Salonika a mouserdeer of Indo China weighing about four pounds tin off Newfoundland and a note on Sigmund Freud and territory size differences by 250000 square miles.
New Ideas for Home-makers discusses decorating with windows shelves and mantels in a period room. It notes how six rectangles formed by windows mantel and shelves can be softened by irregular drapes vines and book displays. The note invites ordering booklet 7 for 30 ideas with directions.
A father realises a coin is foreign after finding it in small change. He goes shopping with five year old Herbert who points out the coin’s origin causing a comic misunderstanding with the grocer and druggist. Herbert’s remark reveals the cause of the mix up.
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