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...whom I signed up were mostly laborers from . . . the slum district north of town, and transient workers following up the potato and beet harvest, the damp earth still caked on their overalls and arms. All day long they straggled into the basement of the courthouse, their suspicion, disgruntlement and sometimes defiance thinly veiled by meticulous courtesy, cooperativeness and attitude of resignation. It seems to me that Uncle Sam is going to have one grand headache keeping tabs on these transient workers. Many of them were stumped when asked to give their address or the name of a person who would...
...matches in unoccupied France, LIFE reports in an essay on Vichy this week. Matches came from Scandinavia and the Germans let no more through. Milk, butter and cheese are scarce or nonexistent, for the Germans rule the great northwestern dairy area. No new stores of sugar from the occupied beet-sugar district around Lille are destined for Free France. Free France will eat none of this summer's harvest from the breadbasket of the northern plains. There is still tobacco in the Rhone Valley and Auvergne, but those shops in Provence that still have stocks also have queues outside...
Most crippled children never go to school, get their lessons from visiting teachers at home or hospital. The man who made Denver's school possible was famed, 88-year-old Capitalist Charles Boettcher (beet sugar, cement), whose grandson, Charles II, was kidnapped seven years ago, ransomed for $60,000. The Boettcher family put up $193,000, enabled Denver's Board of Education to get a PWA grant and build a $384,000 school. Designed in pale green concrete and glass by famed Architect Burnham Hoyt, it was easily the handsomest and best-equipped school for crippled children...
...sickness), infantile paralysis. The animals' viruses bring foot-and-mouth disease, distemper, swine fever, parrot fever, pox diseases of birds. Fish and insects are also attacked by viruses, and no fewer than 135 plant-virus diseases have been described. Most prevalent: tobacco mosaic disease, potato leaf roll, sugar beet curly top. Viruses flourish only in living tissues, cannot be cultured in test tubes...
...Wendell Willkie got some more rest. He lolled on the lawns and terraces of the famous Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. He flew over the tawny Colorado Rockies (from Central City, where he attended a frontier music festival, to Denver, where he chinned with stockmen and sugar-beet growers). He puttered around the International Typographical Union's stock farm, chumming up to Holstein-Friesian cattle. He chatted with the San Francisco Chronicle's bumptious young Editor Paul Smith. He talked campaign strategy with Colorado's Governor Carr, Iowa's farm-minded Governor Wilson, National Chairman...