Superb Training Plan Shapes U S Air Power
A Detroit to New York report details how the United States is building a massive air force through mass pilot training. It highlights officer remarks on volume goals, volunteer selection, high standards, and morale strategies to produce capable pilots, navigators and crew for the war effort.
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New York
Navy
United States
Pacific
Philippines
Malaya
Singapore
Netherlands East Indies
United Nations
Whitehall
Eton
California
Southwest
Texas
Florida
Deep South
Army
American Association For the Advancement of Science
War Department
Roosevelt
South
Gulf Coast
United States Army
Army Air Forces
Texas land gains from disputed lands and oil wealth
Texas profited from the Guadalupe Hidalgo dispute with Mexico, receiving 5.5 million more than the 10 million settlement and retaining 172.687 million acres. The state now holds 30 million acres under the land commissioner, with 12.7 million acres under 26,500 contracts and oil and gas royalties totaling about 180,000 monthly from 2,250 wells.
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New Mexico
Kansas
Colorado
Wyoming
Texas
Mexico
United States
Tidewater
Giles
Land Office
Negro Preacher Knows How To Reach His People
In Nashville Tennessee the long serving Rev. W. S. Ellington uses a vivid parable about southern cooking to connect with his audience. For forty eight years he has delivered sermons that draw listeners with familiar regional imagery and a call to forgiveness.
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Nashville
Tenn
W. S. Ellington
Prodigal Son Sermon Draws 1500 in Nashville
In 1894 at a West Tennessee backwoods church Pastor Ellington stirred a small Black audience with a simple telling of the parable. He vowed to repeat it yearly and has done so in Nashville for 27 years. This year 1500 listeners, white and Black, filled the War Memorial Auditorium, as he spoke of the prodigal son and the war, keeping his familiar theme.
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West Tennessee
Ellington
Nashville
War Memorial
Quinine Supplies in Path of Japs
The piece notes that the Dutch began with cinchona seed and bred quinine-rich bark, making the drug essential in wartime. It explains the long history from 1865 to 1900 of hybridizing cinchona to boost quinine sulfate production and states the United States lists quinine among 17 essential defense materials sourced from the Dutch Indies.
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Manhattan Island
Dutch East Indies
United States
Biggest Real Estate Dealer Is the State
The largest landholder in Texas is the State itself, with the General Land Office administering millions of acres. Texas claims 251,579,800 acres, including lands granted for colonization, education, and railroads, plus riverbeds and Gulf submerged areas. The state retained public domain and debt after annexation, amid historic land disputes with Mexico.
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Texas
Witness
General Land Office
Union
United States
Bascom Giles
San Jacinto
Republic
Three League
Gulf of Mexico
Mexico
Spain
New Mexico
Kansas
Colorado
Wyoming
Guadalupe-Hidalgo
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U.S
Devon Francis
Mobilgas
Mobiloil
G. C. Stateville
Glen Earnheart
Whitewright, Texas
A. Y. Creager Co. M. & P. Bank Buildman
Nationas
Lone Star Gas System
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