Items We Should Know About the Japs and Ma Ling Soong
A wartime column discusses the Japs and Ma Ling Soong Foundation honoring the First Lady of China. It cites Japs in Northern Japan overseeing invasion units, bicycle shortages in Shanghai, and Allied responses. It mentions Ray Kinney, Sir George Sansom, and Walter Judd, urging house cleaning in the State Department.
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Mayling Soong
China
Wellesley College
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Clare Boothe Luce
Walter H Judd
Minneapolis
Japan
Luce- Judd
State Department
Hull
Ship of State
Six Million Farmers Pledge Co operation In Nationwide Campaign for More Food
Nationwide Farm Mobilization day launches a coast to coast plan to boost 1943 food production. Farmers, county war boards, and government officials outline goals, plans, and required labor and machinery, stressing co operation to feed troops and civilians.
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Sam
United States
Armed Services
Minnesota
Algiers
Illinois
United Nations
America
Farm Shelterbelt Yields Big Dividend
Near Culbertson Montana farmer Chris Jacobson says ten acres of Norway poplar and willows planted 25 years ago protect his farmhouse and now supply fuel wood and posts. Over 22 years he produced 75 cords of wood and 1 200 posts while replanting each cut tree with faster growing or longer lived species.
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Chris Jacobson
Culbertson
Mont
Jacobson
Nation's Farms Provide Needed War Materials
Farmers are shifting to war production as part of the national effort. Hemp, hemp yards, dog plant products, and bark trees are grown at home to replace imports. Farmers cultivate hemp for navy lines and drug plants like belladonna and henbane as substitutes for vital overseas sources. Food remains a weapon and farms supply materials for war.
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Ence
Department of Agriculture War Boards
United Nations
United States
Seven Seas
U. S
Navy
Philippines
Cotton Production Up in Texas Beats 1941 Acreage Increase
Texas farmers raised cotton acreage by 405000 acres to 878000 in 1942, contributing to a December 1 department of agriculture estimate of just under 13000000 bales for the belt. The A and M College Extension service notes the rise in Texas acreage as part of the regional gain.
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Japan
Chile
Pacific
Solomons
Aleutians
Lin Yutang
Ninth Avenue
Second Avenue
Texas
Department of Agriculture
A. and M. College Extension Service
Revision of Warship Plans and Fire Safety Upgrades
Navy relocates to revised blueprints emphasizing fire prevention after lessons from Wasp Lexington Boise incidents. Changes include removing linoleum, using spun glass insulation, reduced interior wood, larger hoses, and upgraded firefighting gear. Civil War to World War II context cited.
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U. S. Navy
Wasp
Lexington
Boise
Bureau of Ships
Navy
Monitor
Merrimac
Santiago
Texas
U.S. Navy
Selections from Eleanor Roosevelt on Speech Readings and War Szyk Exhibit
Eleanor Roosevelt reflects on reading presidential speeches to grasp their meaning amid economic struggle and uncertain future. She notes wartime anxieties, visits Alexander Woollcott in New York, and reviews Arthur Szyk’s war satires. The Writers' War Board sponsors the show supporting anti-Hitler efforts.
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Congress
Frederic Delano
Capitol
Alexander Woollcott
New York City
Arthur Szyk
Seligman
East 57Th Street
Writers’ War Board of
Child care in Britain and war era adjustments at home
The speaker compares civilian care for children in Britain and the U S during wartime, noting Britain’s day nurseries and youth programs while praising U S plans for family recreation. She describes wartime rules in Washington, select outings, and food rationing easing with garden produce and home cooking. A second topic highlights Private Peter McLaren Forin of Buffalo in the Canadian army sending Christmas poems to General Wavell.
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Civilian Defense Volunteer Office
Greater New York
Great Britain
White House
Naval Hospital
Washington
Peter McLaren Forin
Buffalo
N. Y
General Wavell
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Walter Winchiell
Continental
James R. Young
Tokyo
LNS
Henry Shimanouchi
San Francisco
Cultural Society
Rockefeller Center
Sumoto
Waseda University
Wid Ent
Shanghai
Pearl Harbor
Indo- China
Siam
Malaya
Singapore
Bangkok
Rangoon
Red Cross
Ray Kinney
Chicago
Hawaii
Sir George Sansom
Ashington
Frank Starr Williams
Sir George
Frank Williams
Williams
Agricultural Adjustment Agency
Clarence Wink
Potter County
Amarillo
John Cotten
AAA
Washington, D. C
Fdr
Sam Rayburn
Rayburn
Jimmy Byrnes
Capitol Hill
Cliff Woodrum
Virginia
Bob Ramspeck
Georgia
Joe Martin
Massachusetts
Jim Wadsworth
New York
House
Fellows
Martin
Merry
Mexico
Patterson
Guadalcanal
Pacific Islands
By Fe
Eleanor “Roosevelt
Britain
HEINZ
South States
Lake City
Utah
Broadway
Summerhays Ait
Pseuth
Bali City
Uta
Jesse M. Chase
Ogden
Provo
Salt Lake City
Pocatello
Blackfoot
Jenew the Parker
Moleer-La’ KE
Barber College
Regent St
Salt Lake
Baten
Intermountain
South East
W.N.Y
Warren
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Ham
Scott
Masy
TY Scott
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