Portugal's Comeback Under Salazar Gives Historic Homeland New Life
A survey of modern Portugal highlights economic revival under Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. The Estado Novo tightens budgets and improves ports, roads, schools, and public enterprises while keeping the nation fiscally balanced. The article contrasts Portugal's Golden Age explorers with today’s slower but steady rehabilitation along the Tagus and Lisbon’s hilltop cityscape.
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Africa
Indies
Portugal
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
Big Cuts in Lend-Spend Bill Stir Rural Opposition
Weekly analysis by Joseph W. LaBine reports John L. Lewis denouncing wage hour amendments and attacking Vice President Garner. The piece traces how rural Republicans and Democrats shift against Roosevelt’s lend-spend program, noting Senate and House moves, subsidies, and international wheat questions.
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Lewis
Garner
C. I
John L. ‘Lewis
Roosevelt
U. S
John Lewis
House Labor Committee
Jack Garner
South
House
Senate
Alben Barkley
North Dakota
Gerald P. Nye
Finlly
World tensions shape Japan Britain China in 1930s
Three vignettes trace reactions to Japanese aggression in China and shifting alliances. Britain seeks to free Asia policy by recognizing a new Chinese order while United States widens protests with embargo talk after Britain surrenders. Japan pivots toward Germany Italy, threatens the Nine Power Pact, and edges into an anti Soviet axis.
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China
Chamberlain
Craigie
Britain
Asia
Tokyo
Japan
Hachiro Arita
Hitler
Germany
Italy
Reich
U. S
Britia
France
Russia
Mars Enigmas Spark Global Science Fears At Earth
World fair blackout and anti aircraft drills amid reports from Mendez and Bloemfontein as Mars nears within 36 million miles. Dr Clyde Fisher and Press Wireless attempt radio contact. Morse coded N but no reply. swing music also fails as Mars recedes.
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New York
Mendez
Argentina
Mars
Bloemfontein
South Africa
Earth
Baldwin
N.Y
Press Wireless, Inc
Clyde Fisher
American Museum of Natural History
Milk the perfect food and its American dairy base
Milk stands as the near perfect food for protein fat minerals and vitamins though modest gaps in vitamins C D and iron exist. Americans consume about one fifth of their food budget on milk and milk products while the United States boasts a comparatively safe milk supply and strong onfarm feeder practices.
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League of Nations
Denmark
Holland
England
France
United States
Farmers Should Study Tractor Operating Cost
Two major factors drive tractor costs: hours used and economical loading. Operators should study their machine to determine economical load, considering draft requirements of different implements and efficient hitching. Manufacturers can provide approximate draft figures for each machine.
Milk Diet Prolonged Twenty Year All Milk Regimen
A Niles Ohio tailor named John Flaherty reportedly lived on an all milk diet for twenty years after a wartime esophagus stricture. Beginning in 1917 he drank about a quart of milk daily and died at age 75. The case is cited as evidence of milk being nearly a complete food according to scientists.
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John Flaherty
Niles
Ohio
Flaherty
Farm Facts and Rural Living Observations
A rural survey of 14 000 families shows farm households own radios at 69 percent, faring better than city cousins by 18 percent in listening, while fuel from farm woodlands totals about 150 million dollars annually. A well-fed cow consumes roughly 150 pounds of green pasture per day. mowing implements handle a three inch wide cut. Good crop rotations protect soil and diversify income to guard annual earnings against volatile conditions.
Hot Dish Mats Easy to be of Cable Cord
Ruth Wyeth Spears recounts a method for braided cable cord hot mats using heavy white cotton cord. Instructions describe making paired circles, braiding, joining ends, and layering rows to form the mat. An offer promotes two sewing books and related leaflets available for 25 cents, limited supply.
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Ruth Wyeth
Quote by Senator Wiley on self-reliance and patriotism
The speaker argues that government regulation alone cannot forge an ideal state. True patriotism requires individuals to become self-reliant, adventurous, and proactive in pursuing personal growth and a relationship with their Maker, rather than expanding state dependency.
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U.S
Alexander Wiley
Major World Religions and Membership Figures
The Almanac lists leading world religions with estimated adherents: Roman Catholics 331,000,000. Orthodox Catholics 144,000,000. Protestants 206,900,000. Jews 15,315,359. Mohammedans 209,020,000. Buddhists 150,180,000. Hindus 230,150,000. Confucianists 350,600,000. Shintoists 25,000,000. Animists 135,650,000.
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Labine
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Virginia
Harry Byrd
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U. S. Agriculture Department
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Henry A. Wallace
Treasury
London
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Hatch
New Mexico
Carl A. Hatch
Frank Murphy
James Lawrence Fly
TVA
Frank R. McNinch
Federal Communications Commission
Cordell Hull
State, War and Navy Building
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Maxim Litvinov
Siberia
Moscow
Josef Stalin
Vyacheslav Molotov
Grigorio Shtern
Vassily Bluecher
Popov
Berlin
Washington
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Hame
Molotov
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State Department
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Key Pittman
Foreign Relations Committee
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American Medical Association
Rochester
Minn
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Charles
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Anthony Drexel Dale
Princeton
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Texas
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Mineral Wells, Texas
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White Petroleum Airut
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