Army Engineers Build Jap Camp in Record Time
In northern Wyoming the Heart Mountain relocation center for 10 000 Japanese is completed in 60 days. 456 apartment blocks rise from foundation to roof in 59 working minutes, with a 12 mile north-of-Cody site and a complete town plan including water, sewers, 38 mess halls and 13 hospital group buildings. 2 500 workers move quickly as Col. Pick orders finish in time to house evacuees from California, Washington and Oregon and advance irrigation projects on 41 000 acres of public domain land.
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Sage
Wyoming
Army
Heart Mountain
Cody
Yellowstone Park
California
Washington
Oregon
Mountain States
Arkansas
Western Defense Command
Heart Mountain Center
Lewis A. Pick
Omaha
Missouri Division
Corps of Engineers
Pick
Fort Peck
Maj
J. C. Robbers
Minneapolis
Minnesota Highway
Sioux Falls
S. C
United States Army
Pacific Coast
Federal Bureau
Nov 3 Proclaimed State Election Day in Montana
Gov. Sam C. Ford proclaims November 3 as Montana general election day. Voters will choose U.S. senator, two congressmen, state supreme court justice and clerk, railroad and public service commissioner, and county officials. Measures include bonds for Montana State College and Northern Montana College, plus amendments on education board appointment terms and four-year terms for county and municipal officers.
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Sam C. Ford
Montana
United States
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Montana State College
Bozeman
Northern Montana College
Havre
State Board of Education
Seder Contee Eth Sani
Incomplete OCR fragment notes a fraction related to a Seder event and names Contee and Sani. The readable text is too fragmentary to identify a clear person, place, or event and lacks verifiable context.
A Small Town Girl Finds Love in Army Camp
Peggy Ann dazzles troops with a camp show alongside Johnny Hopper at Fort Dix. The pair navigate show business, moral gray areas, and a budding romance, facing Pan Morro’s threat of a contract while planning a postwar touring act together.
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Fort Dix
Bud Andrews
Peggy
Peggy Ann
Hopper
Bud
O. K., Soldier.” Peggy Ann
Johnny Hopper
Captain Andrew
Johnny
Pan Morro
Mr. Morro
Mr. Jenkins
Army
Morro
Gerry Society
Oklahoma
Boss Morro
Pan
Betty Reardon
East River
Uncle Sam
Slink Jenkins
Beautiful Doll
Dames
O. K
Terence O'Shea
Nature's sugar factory at work in beets and cane
Plants store sugar through photosynthesis with chlorophyll in sun light. Beet sugar is set to become the main national supply in 1942 with over 1,000,000 acres harvested across 19 states producing about 2,000,000 tons, enough for an eight ounce weekly ration per person for a year. Madeira's funicular Mount railway has closed down until the war ends.
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Office of Price Administration
United States
Madeira
Montana Farmers Plant 338000 Windbreak Trees in 1941
The U S forest service reports Montana farmers set out 338000 trees for windbreaks and Shelterbelts in 1941, down from 423300 planted in 1940. Caragana led species with 115000 seedlings and transplants distributed under state and federal cooperation. Prices ranged from 8 to 10 dollars per thousand, with federal funds totaling 2990 dollars allocated for fiscal 1942.
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Montana
Forest Service
Dean T. S. Spaulding
School of Forestry
University of Montana
Leaders Deny Farmer Demands High Profits
Montana and Washington agricultural leaders on the American Town Meeting of the Air from Spokane dismissed claims that farmers seek excessive profits as unfounded. Edgar J. Wright cited post Pearl Harbor panic causing labor and equipment shortages while Harold Brown argued food prices rise for consumers not farmers and urged price guarantees to keep agriculture parity with the national economy.
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Montana
Washington
Spokane
Edgar J. Wright
Washington Grange
Army
Navy
Harold Brown
Montana Farmers Union
Langmuir Among Inventions and Scientific Authority
Nobel laureate Irving Langmuir developed an argon gas filled lamp high power vacuum tube and atomic hydrogen welding torch. He is also an authority in the chemistry of molecular films.
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Irving Langmuir
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Tenshun
Mr. Hopper
Fellas
Joe
Pet
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Margot Stevenson
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