Press Week Reflections and Hollywood Highlights Across Nations
Roosevelt urges press freedom during National Newspaper Week while Italian and South American broadcasts critique regimes. Roaming comments refer to Mussolini’s voice, Czechoslovakia casualties, and Nazis in Argentina. Cosmopolitan film notes describe It Started With Eve and Harmon of Michigan with stars and gossip across New York Broadway and cinema.
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Roosevelt
Royal Cortisser
Virginio Gayda
Mussolini
Italy
Charles Boyer
Olivia de Havilland
Paulette Goddard
Eve
Deanna Durbin
Chas, Laughton
Tom Harman
Harmon of
Michigan
Europe Looks To U S Farms For Food in 42
L G Elliott argues the United States acts as arsenal for democracies in World War II. He cites Agriculture Department forecasts that 1942 will demand greater farm output, expanding dairy pork cattle and vegetable production to lift income beyond 1941 levels, while industry grows and defense spending nears $1 billion monthly.
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L. G. Elliott
LaSalle Extension University
New York City
United States
Department of Agriculture
Soldiers and the Quartermaster: logistics for living
Atlanta report explains the Army Quartermaster corps as logistics, linking troop supply, transport and housing to civilians daily life. It describes regional motor maintenance, keep them rolling, and the corps range of duties from fuel and laundry to water, sewage, and public utilities in camps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Quartermaster Corps
John Q
Army
Board of Selectmen
Logistics
Logostikos
Louisiana
Evangeline
Tom Dewey
U.S.O
Newport News Shipbuilding Company
West Point
J. H. Crutchfield
Pittsburgh
Carlos Davila
Chile
Davila
Plan Shops to Repair Army Gear at 26 Camps
Washington reports new clothing and equipment repair shops will serve 20 000 to 40 000 men with 50 civilian experts in 26 army camps. The five sections cover clothing textiles leather footwear rubber mattresses pillows and tentage with individual motor driven machinery. Shoe repairs are the largest task followed by clothing and textiles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Gifted Children Neglected by Schools Across America
Dr. W. Drayton Lewis from Murray State Teachers College reports on 50 of 50 000 top students with IQs over 145. He says schools underuse these one in a thousand minds, with teachers often mischaracterizing them as dull and failing to recognize extraordinary potential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evanston, Ill
W. Drayton” Lewis
Murray State Teachers College
Murray, Ky
Lewis
William M. McGovern
Northwestern University
McGovern
Bill
Ecuador
Lhasa
Tibet
Siuh
Persia
Northwestern
Delays to Moscow Slow U S Mission and Tokyo Axis Links
The article explains why the U S mission to Moscow moved slowly, citing German air routes and China’s involvement as delaying factors. It notes state department appeasement worries about offending Japan and recalls Gen John Magruder’s later role with Chiang Kai-shek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Moscow
Joe Stalin
Germany
China
London
Japan
United States
Russia
Spadhe
State Department
Hitler
U.S.A
John Magruder
Chiang Kai-shek
General Magruder
Switzerland
Magruder
War Department
Austria
Vienna
Kansas City Farm Idea Brings Security From Hunger
A Kansas City worker buys a small farm within an hour of the city for health shelter and food. He bets on chickens a cow pigs a garden and a wood lot to sustain his family. Five years hence the seller may regret city glamour, while the farmer gains practical security. Then: Major Jerry Reed the King Ranch dreamer sees Texas highway strip through the ranch reducing romance to ordinary reality.
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Slim
Slim” Williams
Fairbanks
Alaska
Washington, D. C
New York
Tromn
British Columbia
Kansas City
America
Major
Jerry" Reed
King Ranch
Texas
Jerry
State of Texas
Lone Star State
Scrap Iron Estimate Converts to Heavy War Munitions
An estimate claims the scrap iron collected in the country could yield a 75 millimeter field gun or its carriage, 12 machine guns, nine 500 pound bombs, or a single 2000 pound 16 inch battleship piercing shell.
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Jan Masaryk
Czechoslovakia
South America
Herbert M. Clark
Argentina
der Fuehrer
Fadiman
B. Hope
Runyon
Cosmopolitan
Garbo
Paul Gallico
Lou Gehrig
Kyle Crichton
Collier's
Dahling
Ciro’s
F. E. Freedman
Atlantic Ocean
Kin Hubbard
Youngstown
Olin Miller
Damon Runyon
M. Foster
H. Klurfeld
Hbe
Beatrice Kay
Broadway
Europe
U.S
U. S. ‘Non-Combatants’ Corps
England
British Isles
LaSalle
Merry
Oy Wright A. Eee Roe
Western Newspaper Union
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
Minna St
San Francisco
Calif
Pat
C. H. Spurgeon
Doan
Doans
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