World’s Largest Mobile Community at Portsmouth Va
Wartime Trailer City houses 13,000 naval workers in 3,300 units built by FPHA in 46 days. Complete furnished mobile homes arrive daily, with schools playgrounds and a church on a 290 acre site. Rentals run six to nine dollars weekly as workers relocate to Norfolk Navy Yard housing.
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Portsmouth
Navy
Norfolk Navy Yard
Federal
Public Housing Authority
FPHA
St. Augustine
Fla
George F. Miles
Portable expansible units boost mobility of trailer towns
Portable laundries and toilet units form part of Trailer City's modern facilities in Ports mouth Virginia. The expansible units move with trailers and open to extend rooms when placed on foundation blocks. Similar designs power mobile duplexes and can create mobile hospitals nurseries churches and theaters at sites like Willow Run plant.
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Portsmouth
Europe
Trailer City
Virginia
Willow Run
Detroit
Electric shock treatment gains favor in mental illness care
Dr. J W Edlin reports 126 cases where electrically induced convulsions aided functional psychoses. Recovery rates vary by illness duration with best results in involutional melancholia and catatonia. Edlin favors electrical over metrazol due to high recovery and minimal fear, recommending combined questioning and explanation with therapy.
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Illinois Medical Journal
J. W. Edlin
Chicago
Edlin
X Ray Treatment of Goiter Beneficial
In examining recruits for the last war doctors screened thyroid conditions. Hyperthyroid cases were treated with X rays or surgery, while hypothyroid cases received thyroid extract. Dr Pfahler notes X ray treatment yields results similar to surgery and avoids operation when feasible, though urgent removals remain proper.
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George E. Pfahler
Graduate School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Medical Clinics
North America
Pfahler
Health Briefs Explain Low Blood Pressure Signs
A reader asks if low blood pressure is a disease. The answer states it is a sign of an underlying issue such as thin blood or infection and treatment should build the patient up while investigators find the cause. It also notes that phenobarbital used as prescribed is safe.
British Bombs to Carry Air Mail to the Reich
Private air mail from British citizens to Germans will be sent on 2000 heavy bombs with stamps pasted on their sides. Buyers of war stamps may cancel them with their names or brief messages. Bombs will be unloaded in Germany after the drive ends in June. Messages will not be readable on arrival.
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London
Wings For Victory
Germany
Thirteen Turns Up In Soldier's Lucky Feats And Homecoming
MEMPHIS reports bombardier Sergt James F Gates Jr born May 13 1917 served in two Solomons battles on the 13th faced Guadalcanal shellfire on the 13th and flew a long air sea bombardment mission on the 13th after three years seven months and 13 days away he returns home March 13 his mother marks the occasion with a luncheon for 13 guests. LONDON's Radio Moscow says Ivan Bokyo and his wife workers in an armament plant built a tank and used their savings to buy it and will take it to the front with Stalin's permission.
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Memphis
James F. Gates, Jr
Army Air Forces
Solomons
Guadalcanal
London
Radio Moscow
Ivan Bokyo
Bokyo
Stalin
Durable wartime shoes to rise by 15 million pairs this year
The War Production Board announced about 15 million more durable civilian shoes will be produced this year, while total shoe output will be nearly 100 million pairs less than the 1942 peak. The WPB slogan emphasizes essential footwear for men women and children with spared materials and labor.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Japan Athletes Rise in Early Olympic Track and Field History
The passage traces Japan in the 1913 to 1930s period showing progress in track and swimming at the Olympic Games. By 1928 Japan scored 38 points in Amsterdam and produced two individual event winners. The 1940 Tokyo Olympics were planned but canceled due to Europe's war.
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Japan
China
Philippines
Amsterdam
Tokyo
Europe
Portable airfield mats speed desert landings
Metal landing tracks for military planes are produced as mats or sections and moved by truck to rough ground. They are laid in a few hours to create a landing field and are painted to prevent rust and reduce visibility to enemy observers.
Wasted Meat From Trapping Could Feed Nation
The article notes large catches of musk rats raccoons and opossums with annual totals of 15 million musk rats 1 million raccoons and 500 thousand opossums. It argues the meat could supply protein while furs are valued for trapping.
Explosives Contain Potash
Potash is described as a component used in making gun powder grenades and other explosives and in high octane aviation gasoline.
Gold Tax Exemption Eases Export in French Equatorial Africa
French Equatorial Africa announces exemption of gold from export sales tax easing shipments. Government says move aims to promote mining revenue and attract buyers. No dates or specific figures provided. Local officials confirm policy applies to all gold exports through regional ports.
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French Equatorial Africa
Birds Filmed in Nests by Dr Eliot Porter
Dr Eliot Porter has produced a remarkable series of color photographs showing birds at nests. Using remote control he captures the parent arriving with food and feeding young in the nest cavity.
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Eliot Porter
Gardens Boom in Florida in Wartime Food Drive
Florida farm families expanded garden efforts sharply during 1942, roughly doubling the number of gardens from 1941 as wartime food production pressed on.
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Florida
Most Envied Man Butter Detective Reveals Clues in Butter
R E Eldred, chief butter inspector for the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company in Chicago, can identify conditions of cream production from a small three ounce sample. He notes flavors from cow feed such as skunkweed and onion, linking tastes to origins and handling, with high accuracy.
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R. E. Eldred
Mr. Eldred
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Chicago
Oklahoma
Dakotas
Nebraska
Missouri
Hydroponics Speeds Victory Gardens This Spring
The article describes hydroponics as a method to shorten growing time by up to 30 days. Barryton Michigan researchers created three inch plant balls of seeds moss vitamins and plant food that swell to six inches when moistened and yield up to 50 slips per ball. Slips grow in seven to ten days and transplant ready in about 30 days for outdoor gardens.
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Barryton
Mich
Pigeons Carry Mail Despite Gas Rationing
Elmer Helper keeps four homing pigeons for a Dog Canyon ranch seven miles from Carlsbad New Mexico. Two birds stay at the ranch and two at his Carlsbad home to relay important messages during wartime transport shortages.
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Carlsbad
N. M
Elmer Helper
Dog Canyon Ranch
Guadalupe Mountains
Deep River Vessels to Dock at Chittagong India
Ocean going ships may dock at Chittagong twelve miles up the Karnaphuli river from the Bay of Bengal enabling access from Deep River.
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Chittagong
India
Karnaphuli River
Bay of Bengal
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