Grain Belt Prepares For Hopper Attack
The Western Newspaper Union reports a vast, ongoing effort to combat grasshopper plagues across the Great Plains and Midwest. It details bait poisoning campaigns, weather effects on hoppers, egg hatch dynamics, and wide state campaigns led by entomologists, with South Dakota, Montana, Oregon, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas cited for outbreaks and planned bait needs totaling 178000 tons nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Middle West
Great Plains
Bureau of Entomology
South Dakota
Montana
Oregon
Missouri
Iowa
Nebraska
Wyoming
Colorado
Utah
Arizona
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
North
North Central
America
Sol
Western Newspaper Union
Railroads resist new government loans and seek market shifts
A Washington column notes rail officials oppose further government borrowing to cover bond interest and favor allowing half the industry to default on bonds while seeking traffic gains. It analyzes impact on Treasury revenue, banks, and insurers, and discusses TVA politics, Tennessee race dynamics, and St. Lawrence seaway prospects.
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Washington
RFC
Interstate Commerce Commission
Treasury
Berry
White House
Harry L. Hopkins
Tennessee
Senate
Roosevelt
Samuel D. McReynolds
Ed Crump
Memphis
Browning
Crump
St. Lawrence Seaway
Canada
Cordell Hull
St. Lawrence
Tennessee Valley
Capitol Hill
Niagara
Great Lakes
Buffalo
Chamber of Commerce
Spirit
Picturesque Shanghai and its International Settlement
A National Geographic led tour of Shanghai contrasts the busy Bund and modern hotels with the historic International Settlement. It covers foreign treaties, land values rising since 1842, nightlife at the Cathay and Cercle Sportif, and evolving Chinese fashion and women’s freedoms amid lingering wartime tensions.
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National Geographic Society
Pwachinaton
Cowc Service
Shantung
Shanghai
China
Whangpoo
Hongkew
Soochow Creek
Great Britain
Whangpao
Nanking
United States
France
Yangtze River
Shuuguul
Asia
Old Palace
Bund
Ana Dratah
Lefeal
Peetle
Gardan
Desueie
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Joseph W. Labine
United States Department of Agriculture
State
Federal
Departments of Agriculture
Drouth
Gerasshoppers
National Capital
Carter Field
Washington Corres
George L. Berry
Major Berry
Garner
Gordon Bru
Ideet
Nathan L.bachman
David E. Lilienthal
Arades
Fuiris
Arthur E. Morgan
TVA
Gil Beth
Congressional Investigating Committee
A. E. Morgan
A. E. Moregan
Lilienthal
Minneoote
Dekotes
Mountana
Liverpool
Gues
Locke
Etowa
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