Workhorses Of The ATC Lived Up To Their Name
United Press report on the Air Transport Command in World War II detailing its secret routes, rescue of thousands, and major supply missions. It highlights ATC pilots flying unarmed planes, delivering shells to Okinawa, hauling troops, prisoners, and equipment, and transforming postwar air transport with 15 percent of wartime peak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army Air Forces
Air Transport Command
Stockholm
Sweden
ATC
Scotland
U. S
Norway
North Atlantic
United States
England
Iceland
Greenland
British Isles
Okinawa
Okinawa Battle
Simon B. Buckner
10Th Army
Shuri
Buckner
China
Atlantic
Pacific
Arctic
South America
Europe
Africa
Burma
India
Japan
Tokyo
Chinee
H. H. Arnold
AAI
Harold L. George
Arnold
George
Denver Lady Starts Own Housing Drive
Mrs L B Peak a retired school teacher learns of evictions and opens her home to families. She refurbished an apartment and a garage to shelter Mr and Mrs Robert Pacer and later Mr and Mrs Arthur Keller and their three children saying she loves children and cannot bear to see them homeless.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
L. B. Peak
Robert Pacer
Arthur Keller
Groundhog Ducks Hunter's Arrows
Brockton Massachusetts AP recounts Archer Ralph Valentine who shot at a groundhog from a bedroom window. He fired two arrows. the first landed in the burrow, the second struck just above the groundhog's head. The groundhog reportedly chewed the feathered end of the shaft after grabbing the arrows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brockton
Mass
Ralph Valentine
Chuck
Valentine's Garden
Electrical energy in cornlinked to germination and heredity
Electrical energy measured in corn kernels predicts germination quality and potential yield. Yale and Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station researchers found higher energy in well germinating kernels, with heredity passing this trait. The method could aid plant breeders in screening crosses for productivity and developing superior hybrids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Science Reporter
New York
Proceedings
The
National Academy of Sciences
H. S. Burr
Oliver E. Nelson, Jr
Yale University
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
America
Yale
Corn Kernel Potentials Tie Germination Success
The text describes kernels with positive charges at the tips and negative charges at the opposite end. It notes that different corn breeds show varying electrical potentials, with the highest potentials correlating to better germination. Medium potential kernels germinate better than low potentisis kernels.
There Should Be No Beef About This There Should Be No Beef About This
In Holyoke Massachusetts AP reports women shoppers queued at a large market for scarce meat. The proprietor offered comforts including a roomy bench a crystal bowl of fruit punch and a tray of pretzels to ease the wait.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holyoke
Mass
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Maureen Gothlin
United Press
Washington
Young Drug CO
E. Main St
Rexall
the Dothan
Federal Reserve
Denver Lady
Jim Thorpe
Ft. Lauderdale
Fla
Jim
Woodall
Woodall’s
Troy St
Super Markets
Kerr Mason Fruit
M.C. P
Kerr
Sunnybrook
Alabama
Shefford
Stokely’s
Gulf Spray
Octagon
Nevediirs
Nabisco
Ann Page
Ize
A&p Quality Meats
Long Island
Cash & Carry Milk
W. Main
N. Foster
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