Woman farmer near Amana shares war work and family life
Mrs. Frank Bys of a 160 acre Amana area farm discusses her family of three, farm duties including milking 30 cows, poultry, corn, and gardens, and wartime activities like Red Cross, 4 H, and home canning. She mentions voting plans and hopes to move to Cedar Rapids someday.
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Frank Bys
Amana
Bys
Ivan
Camp Shelby
Miss
Glenn
Leona
Cedar Rapids
Guernsey
United States and Britain Plan World Oil Accord Parley
An American British oil conference will seek a world oil accord open to all nations based on equal access to raw materials. The plan aims to allocate petroleum by need rather than ability to pay, promoting an economy of plenty and ensuring oil from the nearest source at the lowest price.
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Washington
Lord Beaverbrook
Richard Law
Geoffrey Lloyd
Oil Control Board
The
Treasury
Ralph Assheton
William Brown
Roosevelt
Cordell Hull
Interior Ickes
Lindbergh Tours Pacific Air Fields Offering Flight Tips
Charles A. Lindbergh arrived at Southwest Pacific HQ as a civilian technician after touring Southwest and South Pacific air fields. He flew fighters and bombers to aid combat pilots by extending overwater range through fuel conservation and more expert handling of planes and engines. On a test flight he flew wing with a veteran P-38 group commander.
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Allied Hdq
S. W. Pacific
Charles A. Lindbergh
Southwest Pacific
Southwest
South Pacific
Lindbergh
Lindbergh Returns With Extra Gasoline Gallons
Lindbergh returned with 200 more gallons than the colonel, highlighting a reputation for conservation use of gasoline.
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Lindbergh
Japanese Admiral Killed in Action
Berlin radio reports Vice Admiral Kiichi Hasegawa of the Japanese navy killed in action. He had served on the fleet air arm technical staff since 1942 and may have fallen around Saipan in the Marianas where Japanese aircraft were defeated.
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London
Kiichi Hasegawa
Berlin
Yokosuka
Hasegawa
Fleet Air Arm
Saipan
Marianas
U S Spain Reach Airliner Landing Rights Pact
The United States and Spain concluded an agreement granting American commercial aircraft landing rights in Spain. A technical mission led by Charles I Stanton and Oswald Ryan surveyed facilities in Madrid to finalize terms, with negotiations headed by Adolf Berle Jr. and ongoing for several months.
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Washington
State Department
Spain
United States Aviation
Europe
Charles I Stanton
Civil Aeronautics
Oswald Ryan
Civil Aero
Nautics Board
Madrid
Adolf Berle, Jr
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Norman Manson
Shellsburg
Farm Bureau
W.S.C.S
Walford Methodist Church
Red Cross
Walford
O.P.A
Comflex
Patricia Pat
Kickerino
Woerderhoff
First Avenue East
Second Avenue SE
U. S
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Pacific
U.S
BeAlah
Smulekoff
Ieee
Valsure
PATO
Knowles
Syracuse
Wellsley
Wardell
Mayview
Carvel
Smulekofe
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