Motley Army Joins English Fighting Force
Roger Shaw describes how foreign troops in Britain resemble a modern King's Foreign Legion with Dutch, Norwegians, Poles, Belgians, Czechs and others serving under British command. He notes Dutch shipping strength, Norwegian naval support, Polish garrisons in Scotland, and De Gaulle's mixed stance while predicting fierce loyalty if invasion comes.
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Roger Shaw
Union
Washington
Napoleon
Hitler
Waterloo
Wellington
Brunswick
Nassau
Saxe-Weimar
North Cape
Legion
England
A. H
N. B
Foreign Legion
France
British Empire
League of Nations
London
Bristol
Norway
Holland
British Isles
Poland
Belgium
Court of
Dutch East Indies
Pacific
Scotland
Royal Air Force
Royal Navy
Wladislaus Sikorski
Leo
de Gaulle
Vichy
Berlin
Dakar
West Africa
Churchill
Syria
North Africa
Martinique
Old Petain
Greenland, Largest Island, Placed Under U S Protection
President Roosevelt announced the United States would defend Greenland, extending the Monroe Doctrine. Greenland spans about 850000 square miles, roughly the size of the U S east of the Mississippi, mostly ice filled. Eskimo inhabitants number 18000, with Greenlandic the dominant language. Living standards remain primitive, relying on hunting and fishing for food and clothing. Before the war Greenland’s foreign trade was government controlled with exports routed through Denmark.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Greenland
Mississippi
Denmark
Plastics of Coffee Bring New Hope To Troubled Brazil
Brazil faces a massive coffee surplus threatening its economy. Coffee plastics named Cafelite, developed by Herbert Spencer Polin, promise heat resistant durable building and consumer goods from surplus beans. If deployed, homes, schools, and appliances could be produced from coffee plastics, easing industry distress.
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Brazil
Rio DE Janeiro
Europe
National Coffee Department
United States
New York Coffee Exchange
Sao Paulo
U. S
Herbert Spencer Polin
American Coffee Corporation
Perfect Racket Ends In Counterfeit Cash Catch
Melvin Byers joins a Boston scam run by Rance Ackert offering a $500 film studio position. Ackert plans to flee with $7,500, but Byers exposes the scheme using a counterfeit bill and a forged contract. Police arrest Ackert as Byers hints at others gathering Monday to confront the conman.
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Melvin Byers
Rance Ackert
Mr. Ackert
Ackert
Mexico
Acme Films
Hollywood
New England
Boston
Acme
Mr. Byers
Chicago
Huge Brazil Spider Catches Birds in Web
A tropical Brazil spider can wield a web so vast it hinders travelers. Bird catching spiders reach two inches body length, with legs two to three inches wide, and trap small birds like hummingbirds in heavy webs. Birds are occasional prey alongside insects in these webs.
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Brazil
Tropics
Milk as Chick Food Gains Attention in Farm Topics
Rutgers University poultry head Willard C. Thompson urges using sour skim milk as a daily beverage for chicks during the first 10 weeks to boost growth and reduce mortality. He notes that lactic acid aids digestion, water can be withheld to encourage drinking, and old milk should be discarded. If skim milk isn’t available, diluted condensed buttermilk or regular buttermilk can be used.
Oat Hulls Fuel Industry Uses from Furfural Discovery
Florence C. Weed outlines how oat hulls yield furfural, a key by product of oats. The compound serves as germicide, wood preservative, tobacco flavor improver, solvent, and potential plastic. furfural may fuel Diesel engines but cost limits use. Oat straw aids concrete road curing, briquettes, and poultry litter. The U.S. produces 25 percent of world oats valued at 350 million dollars.
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United States
Practical farm notes on costs and breeding practices
The article discusses raising costs per production period roughly $2.25 per pallet, turkey eggs gathering frequency of two to four times daily, flax as a nurse crop for red clover alfalfa lespedeza and grass, warning sweet clover can cause trouble at harvest, fat brood sows producing weaker pigs, safety measure of nose rings for bulls starting at eight months with a copper ring replaced by gun metal at two years.
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Egypt
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Luftwaffe
World
Willard C. Thompson
Rutgers University
Florence C. Weed
Agriculture News
Cer Oloreo
Sowing Circle Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
Robert Louis Stevenson
Seneca
Blackman
Chattanooga
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