Red Cross Aids Soldiers Families In Wartime Efforts
The article highlights how the Red Cross links soldiers with home, providing news, furlough help, employment aid, and hospital comfort. It notes its role in building camp headquarters, supplying recreation facilities, and supporting a blood plasma drive while emphasizing volunteers and nursing reserves.
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Washington
Red Cross
O. K
Pete
Sam
Army
Navy
Congress
The
Armed Forces
Army Hospitals
American Red Cross
Million Words Weekly Daisy Bacon Noted Editor in Chief Trio
New York profile extols Daisy Bacon as editor in chief of three national magazines and head of an all fiction weekly. It highlights her reading pace of over 1,000,000 words weekly and 800,000 monthly, her fashion sense, love of cats, and family lineage including Gov William Bradford and Sir Francis Bacon. It notes her New York apartment at 40 Fifth Avenue and a desk topped by 200 model felines.
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New York
Daisy Bacon
Miss Bacon
Fifth Avenue
William Bradford
Plymouth Colony
Francis Bacon
West
John Holbrook
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Vermont
Ae Bagan
Hoosier Couplets Ready Now for Braille Readers
Indiana writer Arthur H. Ortmeyer brings his Hoosier Homespun couplets to braille for Indiana State Library distribution. Braille readers nationwide can borrow Life Lines postage free, with Alabama Mississippi libraries seeking rights and Library of Congress to issue soon.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Arthur H. Ortmeyer
Indianapolis News
Indiana State Library
U. S
Book “Life Lines
Alabama
Mississippi
Library of Congress
Ortmeyer
Wright Cadet Wright Starts Pilot Training in Alabama
Cadet Richard M. Wright of Richmond Indiana rides toward an airplane at Maxwell Field Alabama where he trains in the Pilot Replacement wing as one of 700 cadets in his class He will not enter a plane until after completing a five week introductory course preparing him for flying school
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Richard M. Wright
Richmond
Ind
Wilbur
Orville Wright
Maxwell Field
Ala
Southeast Air Corps Training Center
Wright
Rural Sunday schools outperform city ones in reach
A nationwide survey by the International Council of Religious Education finds 72 percent of U S church schools are in rural areas under 2 500 population while city schools average 210 pupils versus 65 in rural ones The overall average is 114 The 36 Protestant denominations report 160 430 schools with total enrollment 20 772 141 Dr Mary Leigh Palmer released the findings
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Chicago
International Council of Religious Education
United States
International Council
Mary Leigh Palmer
Leadership Education
Council
U. S
U S Farm Aid to Britain May Bring Postwar Benefits
The undersecretary of agriculture Paul H. Appleby discussed farm aid to Britain with AAA head Rudolph Evans, noting the crisis in British food is easing, farmers will profit from extra production, and a postwar goal to boost domestic consumption. Appleby stressed no profiteering in distribution, and packaging improvements helped efficiency. He suggested farmer profits and wage income should reward expansion, with a belief that peacetime use of increased production is possible.
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WNU
H Street
N. W
Washington, D. C
Agriculture
Paul H. Appleby
Defense
America
Appleby
Europe
AAA
Rudolph M. Evans
United States
England
British Food Ministry
Department of Agriculture
Evans
Morgenthau
Britain
Briefs by Bankhage on wartime food and fuel policy
Before June 30, 1942 the United States must supply Britain with output of 50 million hens or 500 million eggs. A cook can use a barrel of apples without repeating herself. The Interior Department contemplates a coal price ceiling to ease consumer costs. In shoot on sight warfare, who fights matters more than who shoots.
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United States
Great Britain
Department of Agriculture
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U.S
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National Farm
Home Hour
John Llewellyn Lewis
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Farm Journal
Wheeler McMillen
Bankhage
Bureau of Home Economics
Department of the Interior
MR. Merchant
Harvard Bazar
Cambridge
Edward J. Donahue
Massachusetts Ave
Ola
Carver St
Boston
Boylston
DEV
Mr. Business Man
Consult
Joseph F. Higgins Co., Inc
Mass. Ave
Cam
Masier Electricians Association
Thowbridge
Chas. H. Fisher & CO
Brooklise Street
J. Frank Facey
Prospect Street
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Clark & Reid CO
Green “T
Tel
A. Anastas
River ST
Central
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