Increase In World Population Outstripping Its Bumper Crops
The article notes rising global population outpacing food supplies amid bumper crops in Canada and the United States. It discusses farmer exhortations for more production, mechanization, and potential lab oratory advances in food synthesis, while Malthusian concerns and hunger warnings persist in China, India, and other regions.
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Chicago
Denver
Colo
France
Hugues Gounelie
University of Illinois
Snow man mitten pattern for boys and girls readers
Glen Busebs presents a snow man mitten knitting pattern number 7503. It features sizes 4 6 8 and 10 with two needles sport yarn. The kit includes improved visuals, charts and photos, and complete directions. Send twenty five cents to obtain.
Helpful Hints From A Friendly Home Bulletin
Practical tips on social titles for married women and stain removal for washable fabrics. Advice covers addressing a widow or married woman, stain sponging with cold water, lukewarm water and warm soapsuds, and using carbon tetrachloride on non washable materials. Also includes a potato preparation method with butter and milk, forming coquettes rolled in corn flakes then baked.
Farm Captured By Hunters
METADOR Texas. Mrs Arthur M Tanner fled into town to buy no hunting signs but quail hunters on the Tanner farm had already blasted the hen house windows hit milk buckets and sent birdshot whistling over the yard forcing workmen to seek cover and keeping the Tanner boys indoors as the farm was captured without a struggle.
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Metador
Tex
Arthur M. Tanner
Tanner Farm
Tanner
Claim Humans Lived In California 50 000 Years Ago
New York dispatch reports that about 50 000 years ago California was inhabited by ancient humans. Remains of fires tools and discarded shells found in La Jolla shore deposits indicate early Californians. Sea levels were lower then and erosion now threatens buried evidence as skeletons have not been found.
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New York
California
la Jolla
Wheelbarrow redesign puts wheel under body load
Engineer Arnold Schauer presented a new wheelbarrow model to city officials. The wheel is positioned beneath the body, so the wheel carries more of the load and the operator bears less.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arnold Schauer
Schauer
Death Hoax Sparks W C Fields Call In
W C Fields angrily confronted a Hollywood column after reading a death rumor. The editor admitted the hoax and calmly asked the comedian where he was calling from, prompting a sharp exchange over the mistaken report.
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W. C. Fields
Hollywood
Period by period scoring tops in NHL action
Detroit, Boston, Montreal and others show strength in specific periods with Boston tallying 18 of 44 in the second, Montreal 12 first 15 second 13 third, Detroit 15 in the final, Toronto 13 in first and third. Rangers and Chicago also strong in the second.
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Detroit
Toronto
Boston Bruins
Bruins
Beantowners
Boston
Chicago
Rangers
Montreal Canadiens
Habitants
Montrealers
Chicago Black Hawks
New York Rangers
Detroit Red Wings
Red Wings
Toronto Maple Leafs
Leafs
Atomic data for 1949 farming season may reach U S farmers
Washington reports scientists at a 40 person meeting confirm Atomic Energy Commission funded studies will broaden in 1949. Research aims include radioactive phosphorous tracers to study plant uptake and potential development of tailor made crop varieties and even cattle. Experts say results could boost yields and improve soil use. Alaska note appears as unrelated trivia.
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Malthus
Washington, D.C
American Association For the Advancement of Science
British Empire
China
India
Robert Malthus
Washington
United States
Atomic Energy Commission
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon
AEC
Pipe Heated Road Beats Snow in Klamath Falls
In Klamath Falls Oregon a radiant heated highway section on a new U S Highway 97 grade kept the surface at 62 degrees while 14 degree snow fell. State Highway Department engineer O Roy Kennen called the system working beautifully as the first public road use of radiant heating.
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Klamath Falls
Ore
Oregon
O. Roy Kennen
State Highway Department
Research Seeks New Grain Types at Saskatchewan
Experiments at the University of Saskatchewan may yield new forms of wheat and barley. Professors Arnason and Spinks test radioactive phosphorous on young plants, exploring changes in size resistance and maturity. They note potential harmful effects at high doses and compare to x ray induced mutations. Dr Spinks also studies radioactive tracing in chicken feed at agriculture department.
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Saskatoon
University of Saskatchewan
T. J. Arnason
Biology
J. W. T. Spinks
Chemistry
Spinks
Agriculture Department
Attracted by scent wood ticks cluster by roadsides
Wood ticks are found most numerous along roadsides where scientists say they are attracted by the scent of dogs and the higher reflected heat of the road.
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Glen Busebs
John Brown
Jane Brown
U.S
Ous
W. H. Pierre
Iowa State College
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North Caroline State College
Alaska
Omaha
Neb
Ontario
Richard Korlack
Phyllis Francis
Howard Wells
Nelson Shaw
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