Europe Looks To U. S. Farms For Food in 42
U S foreign aid and wartime demand push American agriculture toward greater production in 1942. Dairy, eggs, pork and beef targets rise as export needs expand, with farm income expected to top 10.5 billion in 1941 and surpass 1920 levels. Industrial activity supports markets, boosting defense spending to over 1 billion monthly.
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L. G. Elliott
LaSalle Extension University
New York City
United States
Department of Agriculture
Soldiers Depend on Quartermaster for Food and Transport
Atlanta story explains the Quartermaster corps as logistics the plan for living of soldiers. It compares army provisioning and transportation to a citizen's car and home, detailing regional motor maintenance, keep 'em rolling slogan, and the broad duties of the Quartermaster in supply, transport, water, sewage, and utilities for troops, with logistics derived from Greek roots meaning to select.
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Atlanta
Army
Quartermaster Corps
John Q. Citizen
Board of Selectmen
Logostikos
Louisiana
Evangeline
Tom Dewey
U.S.C
Carlos Davila
Chile
Davila
Plan Shops to Repair Arn
Clothing and equipment repair shops, serving 20 000 to 40 000 men and run by 50 civilian experts, will open at 26 army camps. The standard repair unit covers five sections clothing textiles feather footwear rubber footwear mattresses pillows and tentage. Shoes repair is the largest task with clothing and textiles next. Overshoes tentage mattresses and pillows require less space.
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Washington
Gifted Children Overlooked by Schools, Says Research
Evanston Illinois report on 60 of 50 000 top IQ children shows gifted youths with IQs above 145 are often not recognized or nurtured by teachers. Dr. W Drayton Lewis notes many come from diverse economic and social backgrounds, with fathers ranging from principals to laborers.
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Evanston, Ill
W. Drayton Lewis
Murray State Teachers College
Murray
Lewis
Delays to Moscow Show Early War Era Diplomacy
Washington details two internal causes behind slow U S talks with Stalin in Moscow. Flight across Germany and China’s hesitations delayed Harriman’s mission. State department appeasement policy cited as hindering China participation amid Axis alignment. General Magruder named to China mission to mend ties with Chiang Kai-shek.
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Washington, D. C
Russia
U. S
Moscow
Joe Stalin
Germany
China
London
Averill Harriman
Washington
Harriman
Stalin
State Department
Japan
United States
Hitler
U.S.A
John Magruder
Chiang Kai-shek
General Magruder
Switzerland
Magruder
War Department
Austria
Vienna
Notes of an Innocent Bystander front pages recap
Roosevelt presses National Newspaper Week urging publishers to defend press freedom while Cortissoz praises free expression. European fascist rhetoric and Italian dispatches mingle with radio broadcasts on Czechoslovakia. Hollywood gossip and film reviews follow, with Runyon and Garbo headlines, plus a New York scene of nightlife and cabbie dexterity.
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Roosevelt
Royal Cortissoz
Virginio Gayda
Mussolini
Italy
Allocation plan eyed for farm implement industry
The article explains that the farm implement sector may join an allocation system for raw materials, a shift from the prior priority method. It details how allocation would direct specific metal and rubber supplies to manufacturers, aiming to ease civilian production and curb layoffs while defense needs continue.
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Office of Production Management
Priorities Division
M. Clifford Townsend
Office of Agricultural Defense Relations
Donald Nelson
Mr. Nelson
Bread at home advised as cheaper option by OPA official
Harriet Elliott, associate OPA administrator in charge of the consumer division, urges consumers to bake bread at home if they have time. She says homemade bread can be better and cheaper than store bread, echoing the old saying like mother used to make. The piece ends with a patent office relic showing Lincoln tied to a steamboat model that explains an improved buoyant air chamber concept for easier water draft.
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Jan Masaryk
Czechoslovakia
South America
Herbert M. Clark
Argentina
der Fuehrer
New York
Donald Nelson
Priorities Division
OPM
Nelson
Washington
Polar
Masonic Temple
Harriet Elliott
OPA
Conumer
United States Patent Office
Abraham Lincoln
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Eve
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