Export licensing curbs push Thai orders to Japan
Bangkok businessmen report rising loss of orders to Japan due to US export license limits on machinery tools and peace time goods. They note small orders as low as ten dollars blocked, forcing transfers for watch bands stainless steel and aircraft parts, amid growing Thai and Bangkok Japanese business presence.
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Thailand
Japan
United States
England
Air Force
Europe
Ohio widens unemployment benefits and tax reform
Ohio Gov Bricker signs a broad unemployment compensation law with a $5 to $16 weekly benefit for up to 18 weeks and a merit rating tax system. The measure, praised as the best in the country, cuts waiting periods and limits benefits in labor disputes while raising workers compensation taps.
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Bricker
Ohio
Magnolia soybean offers dual use for fallow Louisiana fields
A Louisiana State University extension program unveils the Magnolia soybean, an eight year project aimed at replacing idle cane land with a yellow seed crop. Developed at the experiment station, Magnolia seeds began distribution in 1939 to Thompson and others, with North Louisiana growers eyeing seed production and sugar belt farmers seeking a crop that breaks even under reduced acreage.
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Baton Rouge
U.P
Louisiana State University
Louisiana
North Louisiana
Sugar Belt
Richard 8. Thompson
L.S.A
Thompson
Farina from Our Gang Joins Army at Presidio
Pvt Allan Hoskins known as Farina from the silent era Our Gang comedies is now serving at the Presidio of Monterey California in the 47th Quartermaster Regiment. Claudette Colbert reportedly recognized him by rank and requested his name, prompting a joke about past fame.
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Presidio
Monterey
Cal
U.P
Farina
Allan Hoskins
47Th Quartermaster Regiment
Presidio of
Monterery
Claudette Colbert
Hoskins
Toe sacrificed for navy enlistment in Nebraska
Wade Lassiter, on his seventeenth birthday in Omaha, had his left little toe amputated after learning it was out of alignment to qualify for Navy service. He plans to take another examination soon.
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Navy Omaha
Neb
U.P
Wade Lassiter
Navy
Young Lassiter
New Soybean Variety Yields Strong Per Acre Returns
John Gray, associate agronomist at the experiment station, notes the new soybean averages 22 bushels an acre and serves well as forage, with two tons per acre for nearby hop crops. Trials at the university since 1929 included over a thousand varieties, guiding expansion at Colfax plantations.
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Colfax
John Gray
Acre
Gray
University
Synthetic rubber may meet demand in defense push
United States officials say expanding synthetic rubber use conserves natural rubber for defense needs and provides substitutes for future shortages. Experiments at the National Bureau of Standards show synthetic rubber excels in certain uses, notably in bulletproof aircraft fuel tanks and oil exposed parts. Government funds 4 plants with 2,500 tons yearly capacity each, scalable to 10,000 tons. Rubber consumption expected to rise from 600,000 to 800,000 tons annually by year end.
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H. R. Tatartan
United Press
Washington
U.R
United States
Germany
Defense
Defense Plant Corporation
Federal agencies race for Denver office space
The U.S. government struggles to locate enough Denver offices for new agencies including the mountain states headquarters of the anti trust division. Officials face a shortage as four major buildings already house existing agencies and the hunt continues.
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Denver
Colo
Football bows to defense at Rexburg college
Rexburg Idaho. Little Rick College, a Mormon school, drops intercollegiate football to aid the national defense effort. Officials say the football budget will fund expansion of the intra mural program.
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Rexburg
Idaho
U.P
Little Ricks College
Babies Sleep Through Luftwaffe Blitz in Northwest Home
Twenty seven babies in a north west town’s children's home slept through a wartime air raid as sirens wailed and guns fired overhead. Nazi raiders circled, yet the infants remained undisturbed in their beds.
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Liverpool
England
U.P
Far Inland Alligator Captured In McAlester Garden
A foot long alligator was trapped in a flower garden in McAlester Oklahoma. Local experts speculated the reptile had lived in an abandoned coal mine partly filled with water inland from typical alligator habitats.
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Mcalester
Okla
U.P
McAster
American footwear output set to surpass forty million pairs
The 1941 production estimate projects footwear output above 40 million pairs in the United States, signaling strong manufacturing activity despite wartime shifts.
Weather takes new role in war
Capt William W Jones of MIT says military science gains a meteorology emphasis in modern warfare. The Army Air Force builds a full meteorological department with trained forecasters, drawn from college alumni, to support bomber command decisions now and in peacetime.
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Boston
U.P
Jones
Army Air Force
Pan American trek set four Argentine brothers record
Four Maillo brothers Felipe Jose Benito and Ernesto arrived in New York claiming the elapsed time record from Buenos Aires after a 15‑month journey via Rosario Tucuman La Paz Lima Quito Bogota Panama Costa Rica Nicaragua Honduras and Mexico. Retired businessman Paul Pleiss and writer Herbert Lanks also traveled from Caracas to Buenos Aires by car describing brutal jungle roads and endless hairpin turns prior to reaching New York.
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United ‘Press
New York
U.P
Maillo Brothers
Felipe
Jose
Benito
Ernesto
Buenos Aires
Rosario
Tucuman
la Paz
Lima
Quito
Bogota
Caracas
Carazas
Panama
Panama Canal
Central America
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Honduras
Central American
Mexico
Mexico City
Neuvo Laredo
Philadelphia
Paul Pleiss
London
Cairo
Balkan
Mailles
Pleiss
Venezuela
Punta Arenas
Chile
Rio de Janeiro
Herbert Lanks
Unusual bonds link graduates from Minnesota law school
Two June graduates, John Nelson and Sigvald Oyen, plan a Montevideo law partnership. Oyen read texts aloud to help Nelson overcome near blindness, a friendship that began in their sophomore year, with Nelson graduating first in class and serving on the law school council and university board.
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Minneapolis
Minn
University of Minnesota Law School
Monteviedo
John Nelson
Sigvald Oyen
Oyen
Nelson
Law School Council
University Board of Election
Queen's messengers fail first blitz food run to Coventry
The food flying squad intended to rush meals from London to Coventry after a raid but arrived 17 hours late, sleeping en route in Warwick. Despite aiding victims all day, their delay left them hours behind schedule and unable to prevent hardship.
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Coventry
Eng
U.P
London
Great North Road
Warwick
Man of Mishaps Back in Hospital after Hit Run
Jesse Spawn, 55, of Prospect Ohio, known as the man of many mishaps, has his 28th hospital visit in 23 years after a hit and run accident. Since 1918 he has been seriously injured 13 times, including five near deaths.
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Marion
U.P
Jesse Spawn
Prospect
Spawn
Bethany High School Drops Bryant Family From Roster
Bethany Missouri mourns 65 year Bryant family presence as 1876 roll call ends with Bruce Bryant's graduation marking the first time no Bryant will answer present. The long line began with John B Bryant, later a judge, spanning generations in the local school.
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Bethany
U.P
Bryant
John B. Bryant
Bruce Bryant
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