Healthier soldiers: height and weight rise in wartime inductees
Ten million soldiers in this war average taller and heavier than World War I recruits. Inductees run about .62 inches taller and 9.22 pounds heavier, with 4-Fs occupying a middle ground. Healthier civilians and preventive medicine are credited with stronger bodies and better wound recovery.
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Washington
Army Service Forces
Surgeon General, Medical Statistics Division
Paul R. Hawley
John Gordon
Harvard
United States
Jute Cloth Surfacing Debuts for RAF Airfields in India
A new lightweight airfield surfacing called Bitness has been developed by the Indian jute industry and is now used on RAF fields in India and Assam. Made from bitumen impregnated hessian, the coarse jute cloth is cheaper lighter and more pliable than portable steel matting. Bitness serves as a foundation to prevent water seepage on airstrips built on converted rice fields and has withstood heavy rains.
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HDQ
Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
India
Assam
Belgium Plans 100 Percent War Profits Tax
Brussels reports Belgium will impose a 100 percent tax on wartime profits and confiscate fortunes made in the stock market during the German occupation. The plan aims to unlock frozen assets as bonds and shares are released and could raise about 50 billion francs to aid deflation.
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Brussels
Belgium
Strain of War Shortens Lives of Home Doctors
Dr Edgar Ballenger of Atlanta says wartime overwork has shaved two to three years from the lives of home front doctors. He cites mortality statistics from the Journal of the American Medical Association showing higher deaths among doctors at home than those in the armed forces.
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ST. Louis
Edgar G. Ballenger
Atlanta
Journal of the American Medical Association
Radio Doctor Cures Pacific Sailor by Radio Call
Seaman Elmer Hall of Louisville Kentucky fell unconscious on a ship in the Pacific with no doctor aboard. Navy Lieut Comdr Edwin C Baum advised via radio from Honolulu to wrap him in blankets use hot water bottles and give adrenaline chloride injection. Hall recovered and returned to duty.
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Pacific
Elmer Hall
Louisville
Navy
Honolulu
Edwin C. Baum
Medical Corps
Hall
Proper Pickling Guidelines For Homemakers
The article explains common pickling failures from using solutions with wrong strength and delaying brining beyond 24 hours after harvest. It advises starting with a weak brine and gradually increasing strength, warns that too much salt sugar or vinegar shrivels cucumbers, hollow pickles result from late brining, and floating or soft pickles come from weak brine or exposure. It suggests using a non pine board or heavy plate to keep cucumbers submerged.
Typhus Fever Cases Reported Among American Troops
By late 1943 American forces in the region recorded 14 mild typhus fever cases with no fatalities. Soldiers used pocket-size DDT cans for hygiene while stationed near county fair grounds.
Paris Has No Perfume Noted Prices Up For Yanks
Paris reports a shortage of perfume in shops like Schiaparelli and Guerlain as expensive luxury items vanish from the city. American soldiers on $72 a month face a 50 percent price rise for perfume and restricted dining, leaving Pvt. George Andrews of Waltham, Massachusetts, exasperated by wartime constraints.
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Paris
Schiaparelli’s
Guerlain’s
George Andrews
Waltham, Mass
Fewer Radio Tubes Limited for Civilians in 1945
Washington reports a wartime tube shortage will curb civilian supply. The War Production Board said tubes for military equipment must be prioritized, making civilian availability far smaller in the first quarter of 1945 than the hoped 2 million per month.
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Washington, D. C
War Production Board
Pyrexin: New Tissue Chemical Sparks Fever Rise
A BrooklineMass lab reports pyrexin a chemical that acts like a fire starting agent in living bodies. In inflamed tissue exudates injected into a rabbit raised its temperature about two and a half degrees Fahrenheit. Researchers note the fever mechanism may explain various fevers though confirmation is pending.
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New York
N. Y
Fearing Research Laboratory
Brookline
Mass
Army Is Getting Loft Germans Being Warned
London dispatch quotes a German information bulletin to 16th S. S. Panzer division officers urging harsh discipline for soldiers who abandon weapons. It says some soldiers on the front lines and at home have become soft and calls for an iron broom to clean up the mess behind the lines.
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London
Italy
S. S. Panzer Division
Fire Chief Skips His Own Burning House
Higginsville Missouri fire chief Fred Newman chose to let a lumber yard fire burn while concentrating on saving nearby homes. The blaze destroyed the house adjacent to the yard, the Newman's own residence among the structures affected. The lumber yard fire caused about 50000 dollars in damage.
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Higginsville
Fred Newman
Newman
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