Make Em Last Rule for Nation's 32 Million Drivers
A wartime automotive safety feature urges motorists to extend tire life and conserve gas and oil. The National Safety Council highlights common tire defects and proper maintenance, cross switching, and regular inspections to reduce wear and fuel use. It promotes moderate driving speeds and careful driving habits to preserve limited rubber supplies and support the war effort.
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U.S.A
The
Safety Council
Retreads and Recaps Kept Vital Transport Moving
Article explains the Tist B classification allows retreads for various essential transports during wartime. It covers taxi use for maintenance sites, transport of essential personnel, farm produce without other means, government functions, private mail contracts, and exclusive wholesale newspaper delivery. Also includes hearses and milk trucks.
Essentials for Co Ops Hold Up Sound Cooperative Plan
Banker C. W. Lamb outlines core requirements for resilient agricultural cooperatives. Key factors include active farm membership with women and children, full initial investment, 100 percent stocking of supplies, regular meetings, strong board oversight, prudent budgeting, independent audits, farmer control, conservative credit, solid pricing, minimal fixed assets, no inventory speculation, and strict business practices. Co operatives endure when built on honest foundations, likened to enduring New England barns.
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New England
Cigarette Paper From Flax Signals Farm Industry Link
Florence C. Weed discusses how flax fiber from American farms spurred a domestic cigarette paper industry. The text notes prior reliance on imported linen rag pulp from Russia and other regions, the rise of U S flax cultivation in California Minnesota and South Carolina, and the need to convert virgin flax into paper through new processes while current flax straw waste remains unused.
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France
Russia
Poland
Balkan
America
South Carolina
California
Minnesota
United States
New Ideas for Home Maker Chair Cover and Repairs
A trimmed article explains cutting chair covers with accurate seam allowances and hand sewing with heavy duty thread. It notes a sketch not in Homemaking booklets and references Book 86 with directions to build a chair frame and other projects from common or affordable materials.
Timepiece motto and general knowledge quiz
Answers cover topics from astronomy and art to geography and science. Questions ask about a timepiece motto about unclouded hours Rembrandt’s last name the state moving its capital in 1911 ship draught in fresh water telegrapher code 95 the blind fish river the United States howdah differences between centrifugal and centripetal railroad slang gandy dancer and which three families have appeared twice in the White House.
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Rembrandt
United States
White House
Puzzle of Terms and Figures from a Kentucky Cave Quiz
The list features varied items from a riddle style set: salt water weighs more, Echo river in Mammoth Cave Kentucky, a seat on an elephant's back, centrifugal versus centripetal, a section hand, and a lineup of U S presidents Adams John and John Quincy Harrison William Henry and Benjamin Roosevelt Theodore and Franklin Delano.
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Echo River
Mammoth Cave
Kentucky
Adams
John
John Quincy
Harrison
William Henry
Benjamin
Roosevelt
Theodore
Franklin Delano
Sun dial named in Oklahoma history by Van Rijn
A sun dial in Oklahoma recalls former capital Guthrie as the state’s early seat, with Van Rijn noted in connection to the emblem or commemorative piece.
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Sun Dial
van Rijn
Oklahoma
Guthrie
Tibetan News Carried by Priests Across Remote Lands
Walter Asbee, a European printer, produces 50 copies of a single Tibetan newspaper on a hand press. Lamas distribute and read the papers to villagers, then forward them to other monasteries. The process, traveling through frontier routes, yields news six months to two years old.
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Tibet
Walter Asbee
Rural briefs and notes on wartime agriculture and industry
Rural briefs report lend-lease food deliveries to the British government totaling over 3.311 billion pounds by January 1, 1942. The ideal garden soil should be fertile well drained and moisture retentive. Tin used for packaging various goods has been curtailed. UC scientists produce synthetic starch from glucose, potential but unlikely industrial use. About 150000 pounds of aluminum used last year for poultry wing and leg bands.
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Department of Agriculture
University of California
United States
Truth Comes From Examining Things As They Are
A reflective note on seeking truth by examining reality rather than accepting self illusion or inherited beliefs. It emphasizes independence from personal bias and external teaching in arriving at true understanding.
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Locke
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National Safety Council
Chicago
Iowa
Iowa Engineering Experiment Station
OLL
C. W. Lamb
N. Y
Bank Co-operatives
Florence C. Weed
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
New York
Boe A
TRUAN
Ake
Royal Jewelry CO
Main St
Houston
Texas
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