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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1943
Page
6
A sequence of rationing updates outlines when stamps for meats processed foods gasoline and sugar become valid expire or are revised from April through September. The notes include end dates for stamps A B C D E F G H J and others and mention registrations inspections and price ceilings.
Colors for Hospitals White, once the standard in hospitals, has largely given way to soft tints even in operating rooms. The aim is to reduce glare and provide light easier on the eyes of patients, doctors and nurses while promoting a cheerful environment.
Three dimensional X rays enable viewing through solid steel castings as if transparent aiding inspection of war device components. The new technique offers internal visualization without disassembly, allowing precise detection of flaws and conformity to design during production.
Telescoping wagon tongue aids attaching either team or tractor to wagons. Construction specifications available from the U S Bureau of Agricultural Engineering in Washington DC.
Barbara presses Marjorie to forget past trouble by moving to New York and marrying well. Marjorie resists sponging and seeks independence while Barbara recruits eligible suitors and plots a letter to Fred Hanson. A dinner with George Larrimore fails to secure lasting romance as Marjorie contemplates returning home.
In April the promises of Marek lag while cold spells delay blooms on peaches and apricots. War era gardens rise as food becomes vital and rationing tightens. The piece notes frugal prep, old and new gardening tips, and rising prices on staples like peanut butter and cheese.
Corporal John Crapp of Fairbanks, Pa., stationed at Keesler Field in Mississippi, memorizes army serial numbers. He can recite about 150 serials with little pause, though most numbers reach eight digits.
Ann comforts the Freunds at a Rhode Island camp as Rosalinda the Great Dane nears whelping. Paul owes a kenneling customer money, Christopher Wain visits for a pup, and Ann foils a planned sale while Carol and a newborn baby are cared for. The Freunds debate whether Wain will return for a champion line.
A war driven push for farm safety urges individual care as a key to protecting workers. The piece notes last year’s cost to Americans from accidents at four million dollars and highlights 102,500 deaths 350,000 permanent disabilities and 8,950,000 injuries with a focus on avoiding hands near moving machinery.
Instructions emphasize not cutting toward oneself with knives and ensuring ladders are well placed and steady. It advises using safety ropes when climbing trees and to drive tractors and cars carefully. It notes field and industrial machinery last longer when operated at moderate speeds and highlights improved safety devices on equipment.
In 1904 Dr. David Fairchild secured Tung nuts from China and planted them across the United States. A 1940 bumper crop yielded 5,000,000 pounds and about one million dollars to growers. A 50 to 100 mile southern belt suits cultivation. trees bear in year three and seeds are inside woody hulls. Mills in Alabama Florida Georgia Mississippi and Louisiana crush seeds for oil, with by product cakes returned for fertilizer as foreign oil imports vanish.
A population of 133 million shows wide variation in app petite eaters versus hearty eaters. Machine experts estimate the average American would consume 1 422 pounds of food annually if evenly divided over 1920 1924 then rose 52 pounds to 1474 pounds in the prosperous years 1925 1929.
Colchicine, dubbed the evolution chemical, has enabled scientists to modify chromosome cells in experiments with fruit flies. Researchers report shifts in genetic behavior linked to colchicine exposure.
In the northwest deserts of Chinese Turkestan large herds of kiang or wild asses as well as wild horses and camels are described.
Brazil advances a major plan to produce plastics from coffee with earlier work on soybean resins and patents rising for plastics from cotton seed hulls corn protein and bagasse highlighting growing bio based materials efforts worldwide.
Dr Charles Earle Funk estimates up to one million words exist in English counting Anglo Saxon technical slang dialects and regional terms. He notes no dictionary covers this many words and language evolves with centuries of usage worldwide.
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