Housewives Aid National Defense Plans With Synthetics
New York report details how housewives embracing plastics and synthetics since 1929 built a 400 million dollar industry aiding defense. The survey notes nylon and koroseal cut dependence on imports, with plastics used in parachutes planes and gas masks, while Ameripol tires and synthetic camphor curb foreign supply.
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Vincent Converse
Western Newspaper Union
New York
Housewives of America
Howard E. Fritz
Nice
Senary
Fritz
National Defense
duPont
Wright Field
China
Ameripol
The
Goodrich Company
Nature
Standard Oil Company
Louisiana
Selznick Grays In 51-Hour Bout With Morpheus
New York film mag notes David O. Selznick slept 51 hours while producing Gone With the Wind and reorganizing his company. It traces his rise from a Russian immigrant family, early success with Luis Angel Firpo shorts, and creation of Selznick International Pictures before forming David Selznick Productions. It adds color on the Nizam of Hyderabad as world’s richest man and his lavish expenditures including a fleet of cars and state trains.
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New York
David O
International
Mr. Selznick
L. J. Selznick
David
Luis Angel Firpo
Firpo
Pampas
Two Cities
David Copperfield
Lord Fauntleroy
Zenda
Tom Sawyer
Russia
Zeleznick
England
Bees5
Selznick
America
Rebecca
Nizam
Hyderabad
Hetty Green
Hemorrhoids Curable by Injection Says Doctor
Dr James W Barton reports a medical column noting hemorrhoids can be treated without surgery using injections. In 100 cases 75 received injections with intervals of 5 to 10 days. pain bleeding and protrusion improved after first and second injections. Recurrence was under 10 percent, lower than with operation.
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Mohammedan Potentate
Nizam
Nawab Azam Jah
Fafnir
Lynn Grouse
St. Louis
Journal of the
Missouri State Medical Association
Strengthen Lungs Through Exercise In War Time
The article compares two training methods to strengthen lungs during war. It argues that quick movement and lifting heavy weight to raise blood flow, not simple breathing, best develops lung function. It also includes Q A on chronic bronchitis tuberculosis and cancer origins.
Business Holds Steady Near Peak
L G Elliott reports LaSalle Extension University data show continued expansion in business activity and trade, with employment up and farm income near 9 billion dollars. Higher industrial pay rolls boost retail sales as armaments industry grows, and new orders keep rising alongside production.
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L. G. Elliott
LaSalle Extension University
U. S
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Washington
United States
Lemuel F. Parton
Consolidated Featurez
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Morpheus
James W. Barton
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Dr. Barton
LaSalle
Daniel F. O’brien
Rome
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Hancock
Cambridge
Ola
Carver
Boston
Boyton St
DEV
J. Frank Facey
Prospect Street
Consult
Joseph F . Hggins Co., Inc
Maas. Ave
Knlows
Chas. H. Fisher & CO
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Edward J. Donahue
Massachusetts Ave
Tel
Clark & Reid CO
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Cambraige
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River ST
Central ST
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