U S Acts to Encourage South American Market
A WPA-era column discusses economic warfare over South America, outlining three US approaches: voluntary cooperation, inducement, and pressure. It cites loans and cultural exchange, graft risks in inducement, and selective purchasing terms as tools, with a vignette about high-profile figures in social settings illustrating the era's tension. It notes railroad retirees and a Capitol Pages school founded in 1930, tying economic policy to daily governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse Jones
Federal
Secretary of Commerce
Texas
Strategy
South America
Africa
Hitler
Germany
Berlin
United States
Government sets 15 percent more young chickens goal
A brief note claims the government targets a 15 percent rise in young chickens by July 1. The humorous remark suggests hens will double output now that the government is encouraging them. Official reports allege dictators receive nearly half of U S cotton exports, described in a light, satirical tone.
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Uncle Sam
Father's Day Meat Pie Menu and Recipe Card
Sunday June fifteenth offers a full meal centered on meat pies for Father's Day. The menu mixes salad on the plate with cole slaw stuffed tomato and buttered carrots and peas, plus blueberry muffins and blueberry ice cream cake for dessert. Ingredients include lamb shoulder, carrots, peas, tomatoes, cabbage, and blueberries. The recipe yields six pies using lamb, onions, flour, milk and pastry, baked at 425 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes.
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Dad
Western Newspaper Union
Week’s Menu and Blueberry Desserts Guide
The feature lists a weekly menu of chilled fruit juices and pastries plus detailed recipes for Blueberry Muffins and Blueberry Ice Cream Cake. It includes serving hints, uses for leftovers, and a Western Newspaper Union release promoting family-friendly desserts and vegetable puffs using leftovers.
Feathery light biscuits for Dad on his day
A kitchen suggestion for Father’s Day featuring a simple biscuit recipe. It describes measuring flour and baking powder, cutting in shortening, adding milk, kneading only until soft, rolling to thickness, and baking on a greased sheet at 450 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes. It notes larger biscuits suit Dad and yields about 12 to 16 biscuits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dad
Good Pasture Rest Needed Says Farm Topics Expert
Extension agronomist F W Burcalow explains that thriving pastures require planned resting and grazing, with permanent pastures improved via lime, phosphate, and potash. He urges using legumes to fix nitrogen, reseeding, and fencing to protect new stands for drought resilient, productive forage.
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Drouth
Protein Supplement Helps Beef Cattle Finish
Sam L. Williams of North Carolina State College says beef can be produced without protein supplement but not practically or profitably. He notes that finish and weight gain depend on efficient feeding and lists common protein supplements such as cottonseed meal soybean meal linseed meal and corn gluten meal as equally valuable for better feed efficiency larger gains higher finish and higher selling price.
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Sam L. Williams
N. C. State College
Williams
Insurance on Wheat Reaches New High
The Federal Crop Insurance program reports a record 420,077 wheat insurance contracts for 1941 across 36 states, surpassing last year’s 378,160. Coverage guarantees 110,591,202 bushels from 10,946,284 insured acres, marking the third straight year of gains in contract numbers.
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Leroy K. Smith
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
Care for Parasites Treatment Aids Farm Animals
A drug named phenothiazine will help farmers rid horses cattle swine and other domestic animals of internal parasites. Carrol E Howell of the University of California Kellogg Institute reports the treatment eliminated stomach worms in 37 animals and was 78 to 95 percent effective in the remaining eight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrol E. Howell
University of California
W. K. Kellogg Institute of Animal Husbanary
Protective chair set with waterlily motif design
Enrich a protective chair set using a graceful waterlily motif. Apply green leaves and stems with pastel blooms and embroider a basket of brown. Matching divan and chair sets may be made from transfer 79333, 15 cents.
Varied Study Quote by Colton on Knowledge Path
A reflection on how true knowledge blends study of people and books. It warns that focusing solely on men misses the soul, while studying only books misses the body. The right path requires adding observation and reflection, while not neglecting one’s own heart.
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Colton
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National Farm
Home Hour
WNY Service
H Street
D. C
Mr. Jones
Jones
Rockefeller
Red Hat
Railroad Retirement Board
Congress
House
Senate
Bankhage
Lynn
F. W. Burcalow
Extension Agronomist
University of Wisconsin
Martha
Kansas City
Penetro
Rousseau
Sir Thomas Browne
Ben Hogan
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