Saviour of Bengal Famine Worked From New York Office
Eric Johnson, 27, Philadelphia born Harvard man, led American Relief for India efforts with $700,000 in War Fund supplies. He created a pyramid system from mobile ambulances to local doctors, delivering vitamins, milk, drugs, and food to Bengal’s starving 46 million, mainly children, after 1943 famine.
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New York
American Relief For India
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Lone
United States
National War Fund
Bengal
Burma
Southeast Asia
India
Rudyard Kipling
Britain
France
Government of India
Indian Congress
James Vail
Philadelphia
President's
War Relief Control Board
Viceroy
Ghandi
British Friends’ Ambulance
American Friends’ Service Committee
Pennsylvania
Behar
America
Safeta
Ration Update Shows Stamp Validity Through Summer Dates
Ration Roundup lists food stamp validity across multiple books with June through August expirations. It notes blue stamps for processed foods and sugar book limits, shoe stamps, gasoline coupons, and fuel coupons with respective end dates and interim renewals for 194? programs.
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OPA
Vatican newspaper adopts AP byline
L Osservatore Romano, the Vatican paper, now carries the Associated Press byline as AP services are used since channels reopen. Editor Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre says reliability of AP is indispensable. Italian papers across the liberated country publish AP news covering a wide political spectrum.
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Rome
L’osservatore Romano
Vatican
Associated Press
Giuseppe Dalla Torre
Italy
L'Uniti
Italia Nuova
Lester Adams To Rebuild Plant Here
A building permit was issued to Lester Adams to make general repairs to a frame manufacturing plant at 1309 Tryon Street, costing 2000 dollars. Other permits include C. C. Elliott for two rooms and four repairs at 1217 Pearson Street for 600 dollars, John Pennington for rerouting a frame dwelling at 128 Underhill Street for 50 dollars, L. G. Jones to repair a porch at 535 Gordon Street for 50 dollars, and L. B. Cameron to paint a frame dwelling at 912 Barbee Street for 75 dollars. The excerpt notes the first electromagnet as a simple device of insulated wire wound around soft iron in horse-shoe form.
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Lester Adams
Tryon Street
C. C. Elliott
Pearson Street
John Pennington
Underhill Street
L. G. Jones
Gordon Street
L. B. Cameron
Barbee Street
Duke Dean to Lead German Economic Intelligence Unit
Dr. Calvin B. Hoover, Duke University dean, sails to Paris for a wartime U S assignment to head the economics intelligence branch under the control council for occupied Germany. He will study German food, agriculture, fuel and mining with a largely military staff and return by September 15.
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Durham
Calvin B. Hoover
Duke University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Paris
War Department
Duke
United States
Control Council
Germany
Hoover
Robert P. Patterson
Duke Eee
Patterson
R. L. Flowers
Hitler
William D. Ross
Ralph M. Havens
Duke Economics Department
William F. Draper
United
The
Special Term Starts At Duke University In May
A special summer term for undergraduates at Duke University begins with registration Monday and classes Tuesday. About 200 enrollments include around 150 Woman's College students. Courses cover economics English Greek literature history political science religion and sociology, while graduate work remains limited to education.
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Durham
Duke University
Holland Holton
Duke
Woman's College
City Awaits Delivery Of Fire Truck And Garbage Trucks
Vas sie Wilson city purchasing agent reports the city’s 1,000-gallon pumper fire truck and five Lee garbage trucks ordered in October remain in production with uncertain delivery dates. The $1,000 pumper and garbage trucks were to be delivered within 120 days.
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Vassie Wilson
Cites
Joseph Henry First Conceived Magnetic Construction
The article credits Joseph Henry as the initial thinker behind the concept and design related to magnet construction, highlighting his foundational role in early magnetic theory.
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Joseph Henry
Scheele Discovers Glass Etching With Hydrofluoric Acid
In 1771 Swedish chemist Karl Wilhelm Scheele showed that hydrofluoric acid could etch glass by dissolving the outer surface, marking a key advance in chemical methods for working with glass materials.
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Karl Wilhelm Scheele
Monthly payment plan inquiry
Customer asks about a monthly payment option and notes payments need not begin until November. They seek details on terms, eligibility, and start date for the plan.
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