Women G Men Secret Service Work Foils Stereotypes
Washington hoover embraces female clerks in the FBI replacing draftable men. Women now compose about eighty percent of clerical staff in the field and fill roles from confidential index analysis to teletype and switchboard operations. The FBI supports pistol club training with Hoover approving indoor range use.
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Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
U.S Government
FBI
Selective Service
Hoover
Agency
J. J. McGuire
Texas Cottonseed Price Support Program Details
The USDA announces price support for Texas cottonseed through CCC contracts with crushers to ensure orderly movement and maximum oil and linters production. Minimum processor price is $49 per gin for basis grade seed. growers should average about $47.50 per ton after premiums and margins. Oil and linters also receive ceiling support.
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College Station
Texas
U.S. Department of Agriculture
B. F. Vance
Usda War Board
Commodity Credit Corporation
USDA
CCC
Java memories and storms from Batavia to Sourabaya
The writer recalls leaving Singapore for Batavia on the Ratoon and enduring a dirty voyage and daily thunderstorms. He describes Batavia’s bustling markets, Bodero Boro and Caspernaum ruins, the Mountain of Toasaire, Sourabaya as Java’s modern hub, and a stormy ride back, ending with Java as land of memories and ruins.
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Java
Singapore
Batavia
S. S. Ratoon
Batik Hotel
Bodero Boro
Caspernaum
Toasaire
Sourabaya
Garout
Djoscota
The Mysterious Road by Warwick
A narrator recalls a lone dusty road near Warwick found once on a Sunday. Gypsies pass by, then vanish, as blackberry vines border the path and a lazy snake suns itself. The speaker imagines winter ruts and England’s frequent rain, then notes future trips yet never revisits the road.
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Warwick
England
Old Road in England Recalled in Memory and Dream
Fragmentary reminiscence recalls a winding road in England where vines cling to sides and snakes sun themselves. The speaker envisions travelers like gypsies tramping along the path, a scene seen only in memory and dream.
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England
Our America Describes a Nation in Diverse Goods and Faith
A sweeping tribute to American lands from New England to Texas and the Midwest highlights farms, factories, ships, and schools. It celebrates liberty worship and press freedom as essential to democracy with a meditation on love and loss.
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New England
Pennsylvania
New York
Mid-West
Texas
America
I Give You Texas Lively rural portrait and glossary of cowboy terms
A humorous essay contrasts a farmer's wife duties with self portrait and lists Texas cowboy terms from the San Saba Star. It blends domestic chores with frontier culture, panels of tastes, and a glossary explaining terms like biting the dust bronco broomtail and chuckwagon.
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San Saba Star
Rangeland
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