War Spending Tops 17 Costs
A recap by the Office of Production Management shows defense spending in the last 15 months exceeds the first 15 months of World War I by about 2 billion dollars. The report compares 1940-41 to 1917-18 and notes improved efficiency and price levels. The article also covers Lend-Lease totals passing the billion-dollar mark and policy suggestions to cut non-defense aid, plus a quip about defense effort management.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
United States
Office of Production Management
OPM
Bureau of Research and Statistics
Edward R. Stettinius
Stettinius
National Economy League
Byrd
Virginia
Joint Congressional Committee
Civilian Conservation Corps
National Youth Administration
League
WPA
Reed
New York
Farmers Resist Acreage Cut Amid Rising Prices
Washington reports confusion among farmers and officials over federal crop controls as cotton and wheat producers face referendums. Cotton quotas face a Dec 13 vote with penalties for over quota sales. wheat voting follows next spring. Prices have risen to near parity, fueling debate on continuation of quotas and loan programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
AAA
Congress
Wickard
Roosevelt
Professor and Coed Exchange Water Immersion Joke
A classroom quip features a professor asking about immersion effects and a coed replying with a joke about the telephone ringing. The witty exchange captures light campus humor and dated conversational style.
Wheat Sowing by Air Promises Future for Farmers
Wilber White of Popular Mont states that sowing wheat from an airplane is the coming method for large scale farming. He harvested thirty five acres from an airplane seeded field after mounting a hopper and calculating wind velocity and propeller blast. He predicts farmers will seed crops from the air in the future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Neb
Wilber White
Mont
Cotton prices rise as Texas farmers back quotas
George Slaughter, chairman of the state AAA committee, says cotton prices near parity due to acreage quotas and marketing controls. He notes war limits exports and ship availability, and urges farmers to vote Dec 13 on a national cotton marketing quota referendum to balance supply and bolster farm defense.
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College Station
George Slaughter
State Aaa Committee
Texas
Slaughter
United States
Britain
National Farm Defense
America
Life expectancy rises for whites 13 years since 1900
Census Bureau study covering 1930–39 shows average life span for whites at 62.5 years with women at 64.5 and men at 60.6. Infant mortality falls to 57 and 53 per 1000 for boys and girls respectively, while non whites lag by about ten years.
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Census Bureau
View of Life By William Ellery Channing Fragment Moment
Quote fragment reflects on life as a moment between two eternities. Emphasizes illumination through the extent of view and the influence of past and future on present perception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Ellery Channing
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