Farmer Takes Charge Under New AAA Production Plan
The 1943 AAA program shifts crop acreage reporting to individual farmers with AAA guidance. Local committees set goals. state and county panels tailor targets to regional conditions. Spot checks, cooperative use of scarce machinery, and expanded storage aid a national war production push.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drive
Agricultural Adjustment Agency
AAA
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Uncle Sam
War Board
Armed Services
America
Food Distribution Administration
Commodity Credit Corporation
East Central
Grandmothers Train as Draftsmen in San Diego Aircraft School
In San Diego several wartime training sites fill with students including two grandmothers learning mechanical drafting for aircraft production. Teachers say artistic talent and intelligence enable women to join engineering, expanding California's airframe workforce as wartime necessity meets patriotic service.
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San Diego
Consolidated Vultee
California
Consolidated
Kentucky Hemp Revival Plans Target Half Million Tons Annually
A historical notice describes Kentucky aiming to grow nearly 500000 tons of hemp each year to revive the state's hemp industry. It notes the bluegrass region's attraction to hemp and links seed origins from Europe and early Virginia.
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Kentucky
Entucky
Europe
Virginia
United States
Hemp in Kentucky Past and Product Uses Across Centuries
The piece traces Kentucky hemp from its age as a center of U.S. production yielding a quarter million pounds of seed annually. Hemp fiber powered homespun cloth and later bagging rope and sailcloth, with mills in Kentucky for bagging and rope supplying ships and navy. Foreign competition and substitutes like abaca and jute reduced output as planters shifted to tobacco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
U. S. Navy
Lexington
Manila
Mr Twitchell Opposes Planning For Postwar Era
Readers are introduced to Elmer Twitchell launching a postwar presidential platform centered on anti planning. He pledges no complex schemes and a cabinet free of bright idea makers while urging a shift toward Providence and chance. The piece mocks relentless plotting and cites wartime influences and public fatigue.
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Mr. Twitchell
Cruller
Providence
Durables Footwear to Increase for Civilians in 1943
The War Production Board reports about 15 million more pairs of durable wartime shoes will be produced this year for civilians. Total shoe production will be near 100 million pairs less than the 1942 peak, due to limited material and manpower for nonessential footwear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Production Board
WPR
Homing Pigeons Carry Mail in Wartime Carlsbad
Elmer Helper operates four homing pigeons to keep in touch between his Dog Canyon ranch in Guadalupe mountains and his Carlsbad home despite gas rationing. The birds serve as a messenger link for wartime transport challenges.
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Carlsbad
N. M
Elmer Helper
Dog Canyon Ranch
Guadalupe Mountains
Butter Inspector Discerns Origin and Quality by Taste
R E Eldred a top butter inspector for Atlantic and Pacific Tea Chicago warehouse can detect cream source feed and handling from a three ounce sample. By taste and smell he identifies conditions of production and origin regions such as Skunkweed Oklahoma Sage weed Dakotas Peppergrass Nebraska and alfalfa feeding on the West Coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. E. Eldred
Mr. Eldred
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Chicago
Oklahoma
Dakotas
Nebraska
Missouri
Arms Production Sets New Records in February
Washington reports February output shows a 300 percent rise from a year earlier. Fifty shells per minute, totaling 1,932,000 high explosive projectiles, plus 419,000 bombs and 1,244,000,000 cartridges. Additional gains include 150,000 machine guns, 134,000 submachine guns, 5,000 tanks, 28,000 army trucks, 2,000 anti tank guns, 5,000,000 pairs of marching shoes, and 7,800 weapon bearing combat vehicles. Patterson says 1943 program targets $57 billion and will be met.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Robert T. Patterson
Patterson
Brothers Reunite After Four Years in German Camp
In a German prison camp two British brothers who had been separated for four years met after living in the same camp for a year. One was captured at Dunkirk and the other in Crete. A Birmingham prisoners club formed by inmates led to the reunion somewhere in Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Red Cross
London
Dunkirk
Crete
Europe
British Bombs Carry Air Mail to Reich
British air mail to Germany will send private messages to the Reich this summer. Messages will be pasted on 2,000 heavy bombs and stamped with buyers names or short messages before being loaded for delivery after the drive ends in June. No return value beyond sentiment.
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London
Wings For Victory
Germany
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U. S. Hemp
Elmer Twitchell
Moochie
OPA
Sadie
Chubby
Mary
Jay Russell
Nickel Plate Road
Tepor
Maurice Turet
Merrill Chilcote
San Jose
Calif
Frank White
The
Reich
G. H Northington, Jr
Egypt
Texas
Sanaa
G. H. Northington, Jr
Jersey
O. D. Heath
Madisonville
James L. Coleman
Cameron
T. M. Neal
Wharton
Sra Arene Ta
Josephine Hodge
Travis
Houston
Southern Used Car Co
Harrisburg
Lester Motor Loan Co
North Main
McDonald Lum Co
New Caney
Brown Lumber and Creosoting Company
Sheldon
Portland
Oregon
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