Farm Expert Helps China Improve Livestock Through Friendly Exchange
Dr Ralph W Phillips, head of genetics investigations for the USDA, returned from China where he and 21 colleagues advised on livestock improvement. He highlights teaching Chinese peasants that cows can milk, breeding for better milk and draft work, and interbreeding plans for Mongolian horses.
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Falls Church
Virginia
Washington
Ralph W. Phillips
Department of Agriculture
State Department
China
Dr Philips
Phillips
Great Plains
Dr. Phillips
Ghangis Khan
Asia
Chinese Department of Agriculture
Cornell University
University
Nanking
Cornell
United States
Bombing Crews From Texas Oklahoma Based in England
A wartime feature profiles American airmen from Texas and Oklahoma at a Marauder bomber base in rural England. Veterans like Alex Owen of Tyler and Joe Shouse of Coweta share missions over France and Belgium, discuss postwar plans, and express resolve to fight on until victory.
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Texas
Oklahoma
England
Pound Hitler
Europe
Jim Swartz JR
Union
U.S. A
Southwest
Alex Owen
Tyler
Alex
France
Holland
Belgium
Joe Shouse
Coweta
Tulsa
Joe
Joe W-Snousey
Spartan Aircraft Company
Nissen
Air Force
Paddy
Walt
Dewey
South Pacific
Ramon Western
Pal
Alvord
Yeoman
New Jersey
Damita
Hitler
Ramon
Houston
Bob Allen
Bob
University of Texas
Walter Scott
Main Street
McHinney
Lone Star State
Forest
Forest C
Jimmiy Ashley
Air Force Fighti
McKinney Flier
America
Great
U. S. Air Force
Japan to use vacant land for pumpkins and soybeans
Premier Hideki Tojo's government outlines a nationwide vacant lots program to grow pumpkins and soybeans on rail lines highways and other unused areas to boost wartime food supply. Yanks abroad in Britain crave roast beef Yorkshire pudding fish and chips while Britons adopt American dishes like cheese with apple pie and fried chicken and waffles.
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Hideki Tojo
Japan
British Information Services
Flying Cadets Train Amid roaring Ellington Motors
At Ellington Field cadets practice sending and receiving orders while engines roar. The excerpt notes future bombers and navigators must hear amid explosions and gunfire in air combat. Texas flying schools churn out thousands of Air Corps men monthly.
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Ellington
Flying Schools
Texas
Air Corps
Salute, Salute: Bus Boy Hero and War Spoils
A bus boy in a Latin Quarter room service tale refuses gratuity, revealing wartime pride with campaign ribbons. Reader's Digest later pays a pinch-hitter for a Hope profile. Across town, radio debates over innuendo recall LaGuardia Walker chatter and a 4-F Army Signal Corps mix up at induction.
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Williston Rich
Mag Factory
Bob Hope
Hope
Mr Rich
Reader’s Digest
Jimmy Walker
New York
LaGuardia
Walker
Waterbury
Congress Rejects Heavy Tax on Horse Racing Lobby
Congress refused to impose another heavy tax on horse racing amid strong lobbying by racing interests. Night clubs frequented by servicemen faced an 80 percent tax, while a 600 million dollar nightclub industry and Chicago cafe workers mounted posters to sway Ways and Means and Senate Finance. The posters contrasted racing patrons with servicemen in uniform, arguing the tax would hit those who served and their leisure.
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Congress
Washington
Chicago
Ways and Means Committee
Senate Finance Comm
Intelligentsia plans Har mon book on war adventures
The Intelligentsia reports Tommy Harmon will write a war adventures book for Crowell. Poet Joseph Ausiender’s The Un conquerables is praised as epic poetry. Senator James Mead’s Tell the Folks Back Home arrives May 8 via Appleton Century. Kyle Crichton of Collier’s on novels and reporting. S. S. McClure to receive National Institute honors. Stanley Richards’ new play Marriage Is for Single People teased. A chaplain’s wartime quip about a dying soldier highlights a poignant moment.
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Tommy Harmon
Crowell
Joseph Ausiender
James A. Mead
Kyle Crichton
Collier's
Biog
Kyle
S. S. McClure
McClure
Mag
Nat's Institute of Arts and Letters
Stanley Richards
Billy Rose
Home Front Craft Idea Bracket Set Pattern Offered
A vintage notice invites readers to fill large wall space with a trio of brackets forming a heart design. Mrs. Spears provides an actual size pattern Pattern 263 with cutting assembling and finishing directions. Send 15 cents plus mailing to the given address.
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WNU Service
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
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Southwestern
Nissen Hut
Sergt
W. D. Morey
Kelly Field
Tommy Busselle
Tommy
Sheme
Scotts
Axis
Germany
Norway
Bankhage
Eglea
Tales of the
Sid Sheldon
Army Signal Corps
Italy
Iry Hoffman
Poi Jeoke
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
St Jorep
Supreme Court of the
U. S
Massachusetts
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Enire
Santa Cruz Islands
South Seas
Thorouss
Ewell
Andy
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