Allied Food Conference Envisions World Council
Washington Digest reports on a United Nations meeting in Washington where officials discuss an international agricultural council and bank to raise global living standards, direct nutrition, store surpluses, and balance supply and demand, aiming to back a new style League of Nations under a world cooperative framework.
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WNU Service
Union Trust Building
Washington, D.C
Europe
America
United Nations
Browning
International Council
Agricultural Bank
All
This International
Tni
League of Nations
Society of Nations
United States
Pearl Harbor
Frank Wilson
Department of Commerce
Biddy
Cole County
Missouri
Sedalia
St. Louis
New York
Hitler
Wilson
Kiska Bombings and U S War News Censorship
A May 7 report details U S air forces establishing positions on Kiska in the Aleutians with an airbase operation and occupation since January. It notes delayed AP dispatches, discusses Japan’s island strongholds, and questions postwar shipping to Russia while censorship hides evolving facts.
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Washington
Aleutian
Kiske
United States
Amechitka
Januay
Associated Press
Kiska
Guadalcanal
Sun God
Mikado
Vancouver
Seattle
Attu
Vladivostok
Russia
Japan
Victory gardeners get extra gasoline rations this summer
Briefs report that OPA plans to grant additional gasoline allowances to victory gardeners who show need for extra mileage, aiming to support plots cultivated away from home. Other notes compare 1918 war expenditures at 18 percent of a billion, with 1943 projections over 160 billion, and a Nazi report of a German seamstress jailed six months for demanding pay in eggs and dairy rather than money.
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Middle West
Wilson
America
Wisconsin
Hottentot
Victory Gardeners
OPA
Aee
Office of War Information
Soil chemists study farm crop diet needs
Purdue agronomy researchers led by Dr George D Scarseth tested fertilized and unfertilized plots at Crosby silt loam in Lafayette Bedford and Clermont soils to measure crop uptake of nitrogen phosphorus and potash over three years Across locations irrigations lime and manure increased plant food use with fertilized plots showing about twice as much nitrogen three times phosphorus and two to three times potash versus unfertilized plotsResults showed specific per acre uptake figures for corn wheat soybeans hay and clover under different treatments highlighting the crops improved nutrient utilization when soils were enriched with fertilizer.
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George D. Scarseth
Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station
D. H. Sieling
RE. Lucas
Crosby
Lafayette
Ind
Bedford
Clermont
North Vernon
Erie
Pecans as Industrial Raw Material in Georgia school study
Florence C. Weed notes pecans, beyond culinary use, can supply industry. Pecan hulls yield charcoal for dye decolorizing, pecan meat oil refines like cottonseed oil and may replace fats in bread, while ground shells serve as abrasives and insect-dusting agents. U.S. pecan output ranges 20,000 to 50,000 tons annually, with Texas leading and most nuts being wild or seedling.
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Georgian School of Technology
Texas
Oklahoma
Georgia
Mississippi
Alabama
Arkansas
Insecticide and Fungicide Supplies for 1943 Declared Adequate
Crop Protectors manufacturers state there will be adequate supplies of most insecticides and fungicides for El d and fruit crops in 1943. They note better container supplies than last year and request dealers and farmers to return usable empty containers. Government asks for a substantial increase in calcium arsenate production.
Speak American Lady at North Africa Red Cross Club
Lucie Kinsolving recalls Red Cross recreation workers in North Africa facing language gaps and cultural differences. She describes greeting soldiers, opening Africa’s first American Red Cross club in Oran, and balancing comfort with scarce supplies while appreciating U S Army chivalry aboard a crowded troopship.
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Red Cross
North Africa
Alesse Vu
England
Africa
London
la Croix Rouge
Red Cross Club
Worth
al Fink
Herb Siffert
Hm Sneider
Oran
Algiers
Christopher’ Robin
United States Army
To Be Sure It’s Simple With the Man’s Hat Off
A woman visits a photographer to enlarge a portrait of her husband and asks the hat be removed. The photographer studies the side portrait and offers to “fake” the side hair, asking the woman to specify which side he parts. The woman struggles to recall and hints the hat will reveal it when taken off.
Light color effects human muscle activity findings
Collier's reports tests showing muscle activity ratings rise under colored lights. Normal white light at 100 increases to 114 under blue, 121 under green, 130 under yellow, 159 under orange, and 191 under red.
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Collier’s. Teste
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