Army pilots robots and moon missions need secrecy at Eglin Field
Drew Pearson reports a secret Army unit at Eglin Field Florida known as the experimental missile group is developing pilotless planes and V-2 rockets for future warfare. The team envisions guiding bombers from a mother ship and using television targeting while solving issues of navigation and a reusable craft. There is talk of a booster to reach the ionosphere and a moon shot, though practical worth and return plans remain unclear.
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Atlantic
Air Corps
Experimental Codes Missile Group
Eglin Field
Fla
England
Moon
Feed additives boost weight gain in Hereford heifers study
Washington experiment station reports four groups of Hereford heifers fed a common grain mix with additives. Nux vomica produced the highest early gains and best feed efficiency, averaging 2.7 pounds gain per head daily for the 14 week trial, ahead of Fowler s solution and thiouracil. control lagged.
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Washington
Nux Vomica
Memos of a Midnighter by Walter Winchell
A compact review notes worries about the coming season being the slowest in years due to production delays. Treasury figures for early 1947 show a 27 percent earnings drop for performers outside films, with satirical jabs at fashion and England’s royal marriage gossip.
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Treasury Department
It's the Cost of High Living
Walter Shead argues the nation faces the cost of high living more than the high cost of living. He notes Americans maintain a high standard of living while savings shrink to 6.8 percent of income in early 1947, with about 25 percent spending more than they earn. Farmers saved modestly in 1946 but paid off debts and mortgages.
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Federal Reserve Board
Food Market Mirth and Market Talk In One Column
A satirical exchange with a broker makes light of price swings in eggs milk lamb and hogs. The spoof imagines traders watching quotes like stock prices in 1929 and notes eggs and milk slipping while hogs and lambs rise, ending with a humorous cultural collage about Bevin Kaiser and Bevin.
Tax reduction split among Democrats and Republicans
A Democratic senator returning from the Rockies notes little public interest in tax cuts and cites support from his fellow Democrats in opposing a Truman veto. In contrast a Western Republican asserts voters crave venture capital support and tax relief, predicting a possibly stronger reduction bill to pass early in the session before primaries, with retroactive effect to next January.
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Rockies
House
Mr Truman
Wright Patterson Incentive Pay in Britain
John Manville executive Lewis H. Brown recommends incentive pay to British miners to boost coal output after a Europe trip ordered by General Clay. He questions whether a socialist government will accept the principle of equal distribution regardless of effort or ability.
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Lewis H. Brown
Johns-Manville Corporation
Europe
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
Know Your Breed British Percheron
W J Dryden describes the British Percheron origin from La Perche France and its wartime demand. He notes the 1918 formation of the British Percheron Horse Society to promote breeding for agriculture, and the breed color and size details for stallions and mares.
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W. J. Dryden
la Perche
Normandy
France
Keep Them Healthy Lambs and Flocks Fight Predators
Farmers are taught to use truck flares atop steel posts to deter wolves and dogs at night. Flare glare and odor drive predators away, keeping sheep safer. If fly control fails, manure and straw piles near barns fuel breeding. remove such havens to boost DDT effectiveness. Blackhead in turkeys stems from cecal worms. phenothiazine in mash every 3–4 weeks helps prevent outbreaks.
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Turkeys
Farms Use Six Times As Many Tires
A survey by B F Goodrich covers 105 Illinois farms in a representative agricultural county and finds an average of 32 pneumatic tires per farm. From rubber volume, farmers have an even larger edge over city dwellers with one car per family.
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B. F. Goodrich Company
Illinois
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