Northwest Africa Emerges as Diverse Farming Zone
The article surveys northwest Africa from Dakar to Natal highlighting colonial divisions British French Spanish and Portuguese. It notes topography climate and rivers hinder exploration but area shows growth in olives grapes citrus wheat peanuts palm oil cotton and livestock with rubber in Liberia and cacao in hot damp regions.
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America
Pacific
Berlin
Rome
Africa
Natal
Brasil
Copyri
Ational Geographic Society
Axis
Allies
New World
Europe
Dakar
Atlantic Ocean
Brazil
Cape of Good Hope
India
China
East Indies
South Africa
South America
Australia
Republic of
Liberia
Sahara
United States
Atlas Mountains
Morocco
Algeria
Mediterranean
French West Africa
West Africa
All-Out Industrial Effort To Speed War Production
President Roosevelt at a War Labor conference calls for rapid production as America shifts to a total war economy. Labor leaders and industrialists pledge to shorten timelines, expand ship and plane manufacture, and mobilize manpower from 1.6 million army personnel to a larger pool to meet Axis challenges.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
America
Hollywood War Era Debutante Party Cancelled In New York
Hollywood discusses wartime morale as a New York debutante party for Errol Flynn is cancelled. Ginger Rogers signs with Paramount for The Major and the Minor. Claudette Colbert sports a long bob in The Palm Beach Story. Norman Taurog seeks a baby lookalike for Mr. and Mrs. Cugat. March of Time previews Our America at War focusing on wartime unity.
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Hanks
Erroll& Flynn
Prince Charming
New York
Hollywood
Claudette Colbert
Palm Beach
Preston Sturges
Joel McCrea
Norman Taurog
Maurice Chevalier
Baby le Roy
Jackie Cooper
Ray Milland
Mrs. Cugat
Japan
Hawaii
United States
March of Time
America
Marriage education and a troubled wife’s plea
Kathleen Norris argues for premarital and lifelong marriage training and honest tests of a man’s character. She cites a Sacramento reader Daphne who struggles after her husband abandons family for another woman, leaving her to face divorce and single motherhood.
Electricity Lights One of Three U S Farms
A Department of Agriculture report shows nearly 1.4 million farms have shifted from oil lamps to electric lights in the past 60 years. Total electrified farms exceed 2,000,000 of more than 6,000,000 nationwide, with 34.9 percent now electrified up from 10.9 percent in 1935. The Rural Electrification Administration compiled the figures from REA estimates and service data from private power, REA systems, and others.
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Department of Agriculture
Rural Electrification Administration
REA
REA Systems
Rooney coached by Miranda for Babes on Broadway impersonation
Carmen Miranda phoned Mickey Rooney to coach his impersonation of her for the film Babes on Broadway. The resulting burlesque impression is described as very funny in the article.
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Mickey Rooney
Carmen Miranda
Cary Grant Quiet After Suspicion Work Load
Cary Grant said his idea after finishing Suspicion with Joan Fontaine was to sleep. He noted he had not had a day or evening to himself since My Favorite Wife began over a year ago. Suspicion was his fifth consecutive film without a long vacation.
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Cary Grant
Joan Fontaine
Radio Actress Joan Blaine Prefers Radio to Stage
Joan Blaine plans to double as an air serial star, soon broadcasting three shows daily. She notes stage and film stars look glamorous, but radio entertainers connect as “folks” to their audience.
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Joan Blaine
Odds and Ends from the Screen and Stage Era
Paule Winslow was brought in to choreograph Shirley Temple in her first Redie se ries where the child star alarmed herself by shouting. Anne Rutherford and Robert Sterling get breaks in Metre s Just Between Us with leading rules. Kate Smith now does mid day broadcasts from the CBS newsroom. Robert Montgomery returned from England to be called into service. John Scott Trottier crafts a cookbook, likely dedicated to Bing Crosby.
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Paule Winslow
Shirley Temple
Little Star
Shirley
Anne Rutherford
Robert Sterling
Kate Smith
CBS
Fleir
Bing Creeby
Message for Husbands Moral Threads in Marriage
The piece argues that many of Kathleen Norris ideas target wives but warns husbands and future fathers must provide moral grounding. It suggests daughters reject men who show moral or physical defects and urges parents to instill responsibility and encouragement to sustain a lasting marriage.
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Kathleen Norris
Saile
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By Willard Holmes
Knox
Germany
Italy
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Utah
Army Air Corps
Virginia Vale
Western New Per Union
Ginger Rogers
Paramount
Ninotchka
Ginger
Bell Syndicate
By Kathleen Norris
Daphne
Billy
Alan
Gant
Marian
Carmen
Marion
Sacramento
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