Defense and War Agencies Overhaul to Speed wartime Aid
The President ordered a seven member Supply Priorities and Allocation Board with Vice President Wallace as Chairman and Donald Nelson as Executive Director to prioritize and allocate materials, fuel, and power for the Army Navy defense-aid needs. The Office of Supply becomes the Office of Price Administration and a Civilian Supply Division is created to protect consumers. Russia China lend-lease and price controls are discussed along with new Army Air Corps units and P-40F tests.
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Wallace
Donald M. Nelson
OPM
Army
Navy
Knudsen and
Hillman
War and Navy
Stimson
Knox
Henderson
Hopkins
Office of Supply
Office of Price Administration
Leon Henderson
OPACS
Edward R. Stettinius
Mr. Nelson
Defense contracts aid labor shifts in aluminum priorities
This week in defense notes a Manitowoc Wisconsin plant with 4000 workers facing shutdown due to aluminum priorities. Defense contracts will be awarded where needed to ease labor dislocations, highlighting how consumer goods plants may be curtailed to meet defense needs.
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Manitowoc
Wis
Venereal Disease Program Expands Across Texas
Dr George W Cox notes the Texas venereal disease program, run by the State Health Department with the Texas State Medical Association, now covers 90 percent of Texans. The effort aids national defense and reduces draft rejections due to syphilis, with 90 clinics in 62 counties and expanded indigent care through physician networks.
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Federal Security
McNutt
Red Cross
OCD
Texas State Department of Health
Texas State Medical Association
Texas
Physicians of
State Health Department
Sun Growing Hotter Says Prof Gamow New Theory
Scientist Prof George Gamow argues the sun is steadily heating and will reach extreme temperatures billions of years hence. He envisions humanity migrating to cooler planets such as Mars Jupiter and Saturn before the sun finally explodes.
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George Gamow
New York
Gamow
George Washington University
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Army fliers to ferry planes for Pan American service
Army pilots may resign civilian status to join Pan American Airways for ferrying planes and parts across the Atlantic and to Africa for British Near East operations. Officials have kept quiet but informed sources say arrangements are under way to staff bases on the African West Coast with pilots copilots and crews. President Roosevelt announced Pan American’s Near East task after his sea conference with Churchill.
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Washington
Pan-American Airways
Atlantic Ocean
Africa
Near East
Pan-American
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Army
Far East
Be More Specific Kind Lady Lamb or Pork Joke
A street encounter features a lady offering a chance for a chop and a tramp probing the type. The banter turns on lamb pork or wood as the reflected humor of a city page.
Milk use rises in Texas July output gains large
Texas dairy industry expands with July figures showing fifteen million pounds more milk converted into dairy products than a year earlier. Ice cream butter and cheese plants processed 153,452,000 pounds of milk to yield 4,667,000 pounds of butter 2,013,000 gallons of ice cream and 2,213,000 pounds of cheese. Ice cream up 35.2 percent cheese up 14.3 percent butter up 3.6 percent. first seven months of 1941 show further gains across butter cheese and ice cream.
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Austin
Texas
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
Texas University Buys $35,000 Organ
The University of Texas ordered a $35,000 pipe organ for the new $475,000 Music Building under construction on campus. Dean E W Doty, fine arts dean, said the specifications for the instrument are unique in organ building annals.
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Austin
University of Texas
E. W. Doty
Germs Fighting Germs Developments in Germ Warfare Fight
Scientists from New Jersey Johns Hopkins and Caltech report progress in using natural organisms and substances to destroy disease germs. Wakeman Woodruff White and Tyler describe soil bacteria mold extracts and germ destroying compounds effective against various bacteria.
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Selman A. Wakeman
H. Boyd Woodruff
New Jersey
Edwin C. White
Brady Institute
Johns Hopkins
Albert Tyler
California Institute of Technology
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Geo. W. Cox
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Texas University
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