National Service on Is Answer to War Disputes
Washington column argues the president will order the army to operate railroads amid wartime labor disputes. It cites Byrnes and Vinson as key advisors, notes industrial tensions, and likens the situation to a dog-tempted bite. The piece previews a National Service Act to assign roles and costs.
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WNU
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
Washington
Abor
Feason
William Green
A. F
Marshall
White House
Messrs
Byrnes
Vinson
Vingon
Towards an Abiding Peace common sense plan analyzed
A summary of R. M. Mac Iver's approach to postwar world order. He urges a temporary peace linked to wartime alliances and a gradual shift to real international control. He argues enemies must be faced eventually to avoid a third World War and favors a practical international framework built on common sense rather than grand constitutional schemes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. M. MacIver
Columbia University
Maciver
Bond-Selling Plan Proposed By Representative Gale
Rep Richard Po Gale of Minnesota proposes a bond selling scheme to individual citizens as a cheap easy way to boost sales and interest. Senator Guffey offers a similar plan with quarterly drawings where a bondholder could win from one hundred to twenty five thousand dollars. not a lottery since no one loses and the bond serves as the ticket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Po Gale
Minnesota
Guffey
Treasury
War era notes on crops and veteran employment drive
Brief items note Nicaragua and Costa Rica expanding balsa production for wartime needs and postwar aviation. A Naboleon era tin canning method is mentioned. A call to complete the job and aid for discharged veterans to find suitable work is stated by Paul McNutt as head of the War Manpower Commission.
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Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Paul McNutt
Thairman
Iar Power Commission
Powerful Allies Aid Farmer in Battle Against Bugs and Erosion
The article describes how agricultural experiment stations and land grant colleges extend the farmer’s defense against pests, diseases, and soil loss. It cites Beeler’s account of past successes from Iowa to Rhode Island and warns that ongoing research remains essential to combat rusts, insects, and climate-related threats.
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Sam
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Air Force
M. N. Beeler
Capper
Bang
America
Cortez
Ang
Land Grant Colleges
Farm losses from floods and drought hit 13.5 million acres in 1943
U S department of agriculture reports growing conditions improved slightly but floods in the Mississippi basin during May and June and severe drought in Arkansas and surrounding states during summer reduced crops. Total area lost stood at about 13.5 million acres, up nearly 2 million from 1942, with harvest reaching about 47.5 million acres, 3 percent higher than last year.
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Texas
Marco Polo
China
Fort Randall
Neb
South Dakota
Delaware
West Virginia
Yennessee
Montana
Nebraska
Alabama
Purdue-experiment Station
Indiana
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Beeler
Ceres
North Dakota
Minnesota
Thatcher
United States
Canada
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Mississippi Basin
Arkansas
New Jersey
Virginia
Mississippi
Corn
Whimsical World War II Anecdotes From Aboard And Beyond
A jumble of postwar vignettes recalls high society humor and wartime tales. George MacDonald markets a hotel while a social column riffs on Palm Beach style and on calling cards. The Sullivan family mourns losses from Waterloo to Washington as Mrs. Sullivan discovers a new life in defense work and keeps her hands in by making beds herself.
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Sullivan
Waterloo
Iowa
Juneau
Washington
Navy
Chicago
Morr
Comic legends and gags fuel memories of stage greats
A collage recalls Tait in Yonkers and London, Will Rogers quips on Russia, and a Texas pilot joke from the Air Corps era. It cites Katharine Cornell in Pittsburgh, Clifton Webb quips about wounded soldiers, Van Buren in North Adams, and a Broadway booking agent’s rodent metaphor about an assistant.
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Will Rogers
Russia
Raymond Paige
London
Air Corps
Texas
Variety
Pittsburgh
Katharine Cornell
Acta
Clifton Webb
van Buren
Palace
Broadway
North Adams
Mass
Van
Fire engines are always red a humorous logical joke
A speaker answers a vague question with a chain of associations linking fire engines to red color, through a jokey syllogism about rulers seas ships and nations. The speaker ends with the quip that fire engines are always rushing and thus red.
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Fort Hays
Kan
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Oklahoma
Kansas College
Land Grant College
U. S
Department of Agriculture
New England
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Colorado
Louisiana
Missouri
Kansas
George MacDonald
Palm Beach
Social Register
Ganteen & Hostess
Albert Einstein
Astronomical Observatory
Mt. Wilson
Yale
Giraud
Genr Clark
Clark
Tait
Martin Beck
Yonkers
N. Y
Rattler
Feathers
SF Waite
Sterling Fen ‘Feather
Roadway
Issouri
Framine
Hicag School OF Esing
Dente Cwl
Pitice
Salt Lake
Lydia E. Pinkham
Dinkham
Doctors Pty Raleelieeeyity
Orease Aprees
Scott's
Scott
Eet Els
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