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...Senate was acting almost as fast on the companion bill that South Dakota's able, stable Republican Chan Gurney introduced in September. (He was the first in the Senate to dare to talk truth about drafting the young.) In the bill the House passed were several points not in the Senate measure, but Congress' new mood of work-and-win was expected to resolve the differences quickly...
...evening last fortnight Governor John Moses broadcast a desperate message to North Dakota's citizens. For want of harvest hands, one of the lushest crops in the State's history-millions of bushels of wheat and potatoes and tons of sugar beets-might rot in the fields...
...Government finally put an end to a piece of 100% nonsense: digging gold in wartime out of the California and Dakota hills for $35 per ounce and then laboriously reburying it at Fort Knox. The War Production Board last week decreed that gold mines must stop breaking out new ore this week, stop all operations within 60 days. The War Manpower Commission simultaneously moved to force gold miners to take jobs in other non-ferrous mines-notably copper-which are desperately short of manpower (TIME...
...train moved up into Minnesota's lake country, through the little cattle towns of North Dakota, through Montana and high up into the Rockies. When the train stopped at Billings, a railway clerk saw a Scottie out for an airing on the platform, read its identification tag. It was the President's Fala. Soon all Montana buzzed with a rumor that Franklin Roosevelt was on his way to a mid-Pacific conference with Joseph Stalin, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Wendell Willkie...
Their researches highlight an ominous fact; the U.S. now has a vast reservoir of plague infection among the wild rodents of the West. It is too widespread to be wiped out, and it is spreading eastward. Last year it was discovered for the first time in Colorado and North Dakota.* Says a U.S. Public Health Service doctor: "There is no reason to assume that the infection will not spread to the rodents of the Great Plains and into the Mississippi Valley and Eastern...