Nebraska corn and cooking contest celebrates farm youth
The Nebraska corn and cooking contest showcases how school age boys and girls grow, judge, and cook farm produce at Lincoln. Winners report planting dates, soil, cultivation, and harvest details while prizes honor effort and science in farming and domestic skills.
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State Agricultural College
Nebraska
Bate
Lincoln
Hishop
Commonwealth
Hidden Costs of Everyday Items in Postwar Spending
An exploration of how small everyday goods like soap, matches, pins, and toothpicks amount to large national expenditures. It cites figures for 1946 on soap usage in trains and hotels, button and thread outlays, towels, alcohols, perfumes, pipes, matches, and paper bags, highlighting the surprising scale of minor necessities in household budgets.
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United States
New York City
New York
Rockefeller
France Debates Leg Length Based Army Classification
French authorities consider classifying soldiers by leg length rather than height to ease fatigue and keep steps even on parade. Critics warn such a scheme would harm uniform appearance and pride, arguing aesthetic and psychological factors matter in military parades.
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War Department
Immense Aepyornia Egg Exhibited in Liverpool
A description details the giant Aepyornia maximus egg once found in Madagascar. Only about twenty specimens are known, each shell about a foot long and nearly a yard in circumference, holding about two gallons of water. An egg equals six ostrich eggs, with prices once high. Recently there was an exhibit in Liverpool.
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Madagascar
Liverpool
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