Clearing Fog At Airports By Calcium Chloride Spray
It is possible to clear low hanging fog using a calcium chloride spray that absorbs moisture. Tunnels carved through fog measure 2000 feet long 150 feet wide and 100 feet high allowing bomber and transport planes to land. High application cost and high winds prevent effective clearing.
Ordnance Keeps Army in Trim by Repairing Parts
Ernie Pyle describes ordnance on the Normandy beachhead as vast and vital. He notes 275000 catalogued parts and 500 major items tracked, with repair units from tanks to breeches, 16 hour workdays, and skilled veterans delivering essential support while frontline crews press forward.
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Normandy
America
France
Pershing’s Son Makes Good Among Navy Personnel
Aboard the ship Capt Warren Pershing, son of General Pershing, serves in the engineers starting as a private. He is a tall blond noncareer soldier who avoids leveraging his father’s name. General Pershing is reportedly at Walter Reed with a hospital penthouse built for him and remains active in war counsel.
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Edward Strucker
Barberton
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Akron
Eddie
Charles
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Sicily
Italy
Commander Greene
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Navy
Terry Greene
Greenwich Village
John Leppard
Hershey
English Channel
Albuquerque
Harold Lampton
Farmington
N.M
Southwest
Rio Grande
Warren Pershing
General Pershing
Engineers
Walter Reed Hospital
Face Facts Disaster Looms If Farm Land Boom Continues
Washington column warns the USDA index shows land values rising about 1 percent monthly since 1943. It compares current inflation with the postwar surge, notes high farm incomes and commodity prices fueling speculation, cites transfer rates and a 90 percent tax proposal on short-term land profits, and urges swift legislative action.
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USDA
Usda Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Pacific
North Central
Guy M. Gillette
Iowa
Handy Household Tips From Everyday Practice
A collection of simple household pointers covers preserving cookies with jam, placing sawdust in hen nests, sprinkling starched clothes, loosening tight jar tops with hot water, storing small fasteners in a cork, mending rug edges with glued tape, and reinforcing edges with burlap. These tips emphasize practical, low effort fixes using common items.
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