Plane search deep in Alaska wilds continues for Alan Slade
Lynn and the Flying Padre push to find Alan Slade after his Snow Ball Baby plane vanishes near Echo Harbor. Eskimo Umanak returns with pitchblende cargo clues while Zeke Pratt and Minty Buckman guard Slade’s plane against hostile swan hunters. Lynn leads a new scouting plan as the chase path widens toward Anawotto country and a possible international intrigue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norland Airways
Alan Slade
Frayne
Karnell
Slade
Croger
Lockheed
Umaak
Zeke
Minty
Stim Tomstead
Tumstead
Umanak
Dr. Morlock
Lynn
Devil-Bird
Iviuk Inlet
Corporal McGarry
Great Bear
Alan
Echo Harbor
Flying Padre
Padre
Kasakana
Zeke Pratt
Minty Buckman
Tidewater
Germany
Yokohama
Vladivostok
Rhine
Yester
Nitrogen Fertilizer Shortage Affects Fall Crops
The War Production Board asks producers not to manufacture or sell nitrogen fertilizer for fall grown grains as nitrogen supplies stay well below normal due to war munitions demand and shipping limits. Phosphorus and potash remain ample, with seven high analysis mixed fertilizer grades recommended for fall sown grains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earle Jones
Extension Agronomist
College of Agriculture
Ohio State University
War Production Board
Fertilizer Grades for Ohio Soils and Crops Advised
Ohio State University guidance lists fertilizer grades suitable for different soils and crops. Recommendations include 0-12-2 for light loam, 300-400 pounds per acre on light soils, 200-350 pounds on dark loam, and adjustments to 0-18-0 or 0-20-0 after prior manure, with 0-10-20 for muck peats sands and 0-12-12 when soils are manured.
Farm Notes on Lamb Crop and WPB Dehydrated Foods Plan
The 1942 lamb crop fell about 2 percent from the 1941 record but reached an estimated 32 260 000 head the second largest on record. The WPB gave high priority to expanding facilities for dehydrated foods based on Foods Requirement committee recommendations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WPB
Foods Requirement Committee
Patterns Sewing Circle Pattern No 8293
Dolls measure 15 inches long and require one third yard of 35 inch fabric for body costumes to be made from remnants.
Christmas Toys and Camel Cigarettes as Gifts
A vintage ad suggests naming twin toy gifts for Christmas with muslin bodies and yarn hair. It also promotes Camel cigarettes for servicemen and Prince Albert Tobacco in canister or holiday box formats as ideal gifts, noting post exchange surveys favor Camel and Prince Albert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judy
Jim
Willie
Millie
Camel
Sal
Prince Albert
Facts Quiz for Curious Readers
The questions cover rainfall converts per acre inches, the Cradle of Liberty building, spider leg pairs, verdicts in tales, the term for a cross shaped like a plus sign, Croesus as king of Lydia, a U.S. president who was a sheriff, and the origin of the Bad Lands name in South Dakota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Croesus
United States
South Dakota
Quick Facts From The Quiz Of Everyday Life
The list includes 100 tons, Faneuil Hall, a spider with four pairs of walking legs, extra jurors being summoned, a Greek cross, Lydia, Grover Cleveland as sheriff of Erie County New York, and South Dakota’s Bad Lands described by locals as barren with little soil vegetation or animal life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Faneuil Hall
Lydia
Grover Cleveland
Erie County
New York
South Dakota
Also Mentioned on This Page
Arthur Stringer
MU. Service
Texas
San Benito County
California
Canada
Appache County
Arizona
Roman Hubbell
Ohio
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
West Wacker Dr
Chicago
Twin Toys
Dee
Kellogg's
Battle Creek
Nāgai
Siel
Hulman & CO
Terre Haute, Ind
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