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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1946
Page
6
A collage of cheeky remarks and vignettes on Hollywood stardom theater and high society. Jokes about Mussolini’s body digger and stand outs in Hollywood mix with hotel shortages Biloxi convention pivots and a string of urban perverse witticisms.
In Washington Navy Secretary Forrestal faces internal strain as a new public relations coordinator with a staff upstages the veteran Min Miller. Vice Admiral Carpender leads a larger unit, drawing criticism from reserve officers and stirring talk of Army-Navy fusion.
A brief item by Pau Mallon released by the Western Newspaper Union states that a loan to Britain would promote socialism. The note reflects interwar economic debates and allied financial policy.
The article discusses soil compaction caused by heavy equipment and its effect on root oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange. Agronomist Dr George N Hoffer recommends deeper plowing and new plow types to break compacted layers and improve aeration and nutrient placement.
Quick lunch ideas include broiled liver sausage slices with creamed lima beans and tomatoes served with fruit milk and cookies. Leftover ham creamed with peas and shredded carrot raisin salad peaches and cream and a beverage.
A DDT aerosol bomb and a Freon based disperser are described as wartime insecticide innovations for dairy barns and poultry houses. The device uses a small cylindrical container with a valve to release compressed Freon, expanding to gas and carrying the insecticide to kill flies and other pests.
University of Wisconsin reports an autoclave processing method that preserves carotene in alfalfa and cereal grasses. The forage is pressed into blocks and sealed with flexible wax, retaining carotene for storage as a vitamin supplement. This costly method remains the only effective approach found.
A tiny lawn chair pattern 253 offers children small seating with complete materials lists and illustrated steps. The seat sits about ten inches high and thirteen inches deep, matching the adult chair pattern 269. Patterns cost 15 cents each or 25 cents for both, with order to be mailed to the provided address.
Collier's notes many state legislatures and foreign parliaments employ the electric voting system for speed. It could cut quorum vote time in the U S House from 30 minutes to about 60 seconds, potentially saving about 19,000 man-hours in the last Congress.
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