Air Corps Tests New Food Ration on Desert Hike
A 14 man Wright Field expedition completed a 100 mile desert hike in New Mexico to test a new emergency field ration from the Chicago Quartermasters Laboratory. The plan centers on delivering 3,500 calories daily in three packages weighing about 12.5 ounces per meal, with a pemmican biscuit as the mainstay plus crackers, gum, and beverages to sustain pilots stranded far from civilization.
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Dayton
Ohio
New Mexico
Wright Field
Army Air Corps Test and Research Center
Quartermasters Subsistence Laboratory
Chicago
Air Corps
Panama
Alaska
Maj
D. B. Dill
Major Dill
National plan aims at defense era farming shifts
The department of agriculture released a summary of state land use planning committees recommendations on defense era farming. They urge integrating agriculture with defense, decentralizing defense industries, price support, expanded rural services, and postwar plans. They call for a unified health and nutrition program and greater rural youth training, plus better use of natural resources and expanded transport. They favor raising production per acre over new cropland and stress Pan American trade and a rural works program postwar.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Department
Claude R. Wickard
Western Hemisphere
Defense Workers Avoid Wearing Flashy Clothes
In Chicago a Merchandise Mart survey of firms handling men’s furnishings finds defense industry workers spending on modest attire. Unlike World War I, restraint governs dress-up and work clothes, with workers shunning flamboyant street apparel and $15 shirts despite a large Uncle Sam budget.
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Chicago
Uncle Sam
Merchandise
Woman's Place In a Democracy Is Forum Topic
COLUMBIA MO Three day forum opening November 6 on Stephens College campus will explore the American woman and her responsibilities as a citizen in a democracy. Afternoon sessions include parents, undergraduates, alumnae, housewives and national organization representatives.
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Columbia
Stephens College
James Madison Wood
Historic Army Camps Named for Civil War to WWI Heroes
A survey of U S military training camps honoring notable figures from Samuel B Holabird to Curtis Guild and Robert E Michie. Camps Sibert Edwards Callan reflect long service and reforms benefiting soldiers, with Sibert leading in France and Edwards commanding the Yankee division.
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Uncle Sam
Dakota
Texas
California
United States Army
Holabird
Camp
Sibert
Boulder City
Nev
William Luther Sibert
Alabama
Gatun
Panama Canal
Congress
A.E.F
France
General Pershing
Camp Edwards
Forestdale
Mags
Clarence BE. Edwards
Farmers Losing Rich Top Soil In A Severe Storm
Extension soil expert LINDLEY G. COOK notes farmers lose topsoil and nutrients to storms. Comparison of plots shows fertilizer alone vs manure and winter cover crops greatly reducing losses. Advises contacting county agents or local conservation districts for practical conservation measures.
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Marlboro
Acre
National Army Spirit from Camp Dix 1917
Morley writes from Camp Dix on October 24 1917 praising the national army effort. He calls it a true cross section of the nation, noting molten pools of manhood and a crucible purging dross to forge what could become the finest army the world has seen.
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Christopher Morley
Camp Dix
Fur farming grows as industry in American agriculture
The article notes fur trapping is widespread across states, pushing several species toward extinction. Fur pelts raised under controlled conditions rose from 6000 in 1923 to over 300,000 in 1940, valued at about 60 million dollars. Fox farming dominates northern states with Wisconsin Minnesota and Michigan producing over half the silver foxes, while other centers include New England New York Pennsylvania Illinois Ohio and the Rocky Mountain region. Research is urged into breeding feeding and pelt preparation with potential uses for carcasses in food fats and glands.
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United States
New England
Washington
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Michigan
Rocky Mountain
Illnois
Ohio
New York
Pennsylvania
Farm incomes up about a fourth from year ago
Agricultural news reports that prices and income received by farmers in early summer rose about 25 percent from the previous year. Department of Agriculture economists note the farm population has grown only one tenth of 1 percent in a decade, while the nation's population increased 7.2 percent.
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Department of Agriculture
United States
Mentally Healthy Soldier for Modern War Debate
A White House news conference addressed military admission standards amid data showing nearly half of selectees were ineligible due to physical mental or educational deficiencies. President Roosevelt opposed lowering standards, cautioning it would raise psychopathic casualties and costs. Experts note modern warfare demands stricter mental qualifications and individual discipline. The piece cites vast veteran mental health costs from World War I and discusses improved screening and the impact of mechanization on morale.
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WNU
H Street
Washington
D. C
White House
Roosevelt
Army
Uncle Sam
Veterans Administration
China peanut industry linked to NC seeds in old mission trip
A Department of Commerce release traces China’s peanut industry to four quarts of selected North Carolina peanuts carried overseas by an American missionary sixty years ago. Other notes claim 40 percent of U S motor vehicles are on small-town farms, the United States is building a vast tanker fleet surpassing Britain, and defense chlorine needs will alter school book pages and illustrations.
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Iran
Persia
Iraq
Russian Caucases
Germany
India
Japan
Indo-China
Thailand
Burma
Great Britain
Pan American Child Congress
Bad Samaritan
Pan-American Child Congress
Americas
Washington
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
San Jose
Wu China
North Carolina
Department of Commerce
United States
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China
Wood
Mr. Wood
America
Hadowy
Camp Michie
del Rio
Robert E. Lee Michie
West Point
B. Holabird
W. L. Sibert
Lindley G. Cook
New Jersey College of Agriculture
Rutgers University
Florence C. Weed
Agricultural News
Baukhage
National Farm
Home Hour
Martin Cooley
Veterans Bureau
Medical Department of the Army
War Department
John W. Gwynne
Iowa
Bankhage
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