Shipping Board Grants 18 000 Officer Training Milestone
More than 18 900 merchant marine officers have graduated from Shipping Board schools since establishment three years ago. 72 percent are licensed for service. Plans outline shore stations and sea training vessels to educate men from across the country in seamanship and maritime commerce with four year degree potential.
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Washington
Shipping Board
Board
Stuart
San Joe Tle
Atlantic Coast
Pacific Coast
Seattle
Hawaiian Islands
San Francisco
Atlantic
Pacific
Oregon Batteries Decorated with Croix de Guerre for France Service
Salem reports Oregon National Guard Batteries A and B of the 147th Field Artillery received the Croix de Guerre for their World War I service in France with the 41st then 32nd divisions. They fought at Chateau Thierry, St Mihiel, and Meuse Argonne, earning bronze stars. Battery A, 63, organized in Portland, previously served in the Spanish American War and Mexican border duty in 1916-17.
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Salem
Oregon
France
George A. White
147Th Field Artillery
Oregon National Guard Field Artillery
41St National Guard
Northwest
Mexcan
CUT HOME WASTE Investigation in New York Reveals Food Waste
New York health department studies show private house families with servants waste about a pound and a quarter of edible food daily, while apartment households waste far less. In tenement areas a single garbage can serves 20 families, and many pails contain bread meat potatoes cereals and vegetables no longer fit for disposal. The waste correlates with number of servants, once seen as prosperity.
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Prescot
New York Health Department
New York
Mosquito Color Preferences Revealed in Tent Experiments
In a gauze tent with sunlit windows researchers tested color attraction. Dark gray clothes drew mosquitoes, white clothing repelled them, while boxes lined with colors attracted varying numbers, highest for dark blue and none for yellow. The results map color impact on mosquito approach.
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Ned
Crossroads store taunts customer in Arkansas town
A Fiddle Creek resident recalls visiting Peara like Polk Sniwney's store to find it empty and a sleepy clerk snarling from under the counter. The clerk complains about drummers and customers, telling them to return when not so tired.
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Polk Sniwney
Fiddle Creek
Ark
Satterlee Breaks U S Speed and Power Records
The torpedo boat destroyer Satterlee set new American records by running a measured mile at 39.26 knots, surpassing the old 87.04 knot mark held by Dent and Wickes. It also posted a class horsepower record of 31,223. Commissioned six months ago, Satterlee was built by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.
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Setterlee
Rockland
Dent
Wickes
Satterlee
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Scientific American
Meaning of the term alter ego in a school setting
The principal asks for the meaning of alter ego and a sentence using it. A respondent supplies the phrase the other 1 and remarks about a sentence containing the n phrase. The reply includes a misheard line about his other L.
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