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Ration K is the prize package of the Subsistence Research Laboratory of the Chicago Quartermaster Depot. Ten years old, the laboratory now serves as the Army's clearinghouse for food ideas, originating many of them itself. It is staffed by twelve commissioned officers and three civilian technicians...
General Kenney is relatively unknown -he is a former commander of the Air Corps Experimental Depot and Engineering School at Wright Field, Ohio, flew in World War I-has yet to prove that he can do what others did not. "Nobody's kidding me about this show," he declared last week...
Died. Mrs. James Patrick Sinnott Devereux, 27, wife of Wake Island's defender, U.S. Marine Lieut. Colonel ("Send us more Japs") Devereux; of diabetes; in Washington, D.C. An Army daughter (of Colonel John P. Welch, in command of the Quartermaster Depot at Richmond, Va.), pretty Mrs. Devereux's illness had apparently been aggravated by worry over the fate of her husband, last reported in a Shanghai prison camp. Orphaned for the duration was Son Patrick Devereux...
...have spent record-breaking millions at Maryland and New York tracks this spring, ingenious Mr. Mori figures that his park should attract plenty of Philadelphians this summer. It is 10? by bus, 12 minutes by auto (even at 30 m.p.h.) and only 200 yards from a main-line Pennsy depot. But Mr. Mori may not have figured on all the uncertainties of wartime living...
...unhappy War Department pointed out that the cuspidor mats were to be used in hospitals, had been ordered as a routine refill by the San Antonio Quartermaster Depot. They were to be made of reclaimed rubber in combination with alloys, would not require more than 750 lb. even of reclaimed material. Furthermore, said the War Department, the San Antonio Depot had no authority to award contracts, had simply asked for bids. Somebody in Washington (the Department wasn't quite sure who) would certainly have vetoed any contract calling for rubber. So there...