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Elephants carry 500 Ib. loads over country too difficult even for mules. They cross this stiff country at the lordly rate of ten miles a day. They also help sappers build bridges. They can work about nine months in the year. The most famous elephant assisting the Indian Army is Bandula, named after a famous Burmese general. Bandula's mahout receives "danger pay" because the elephant has already killed two keepers...
Back from the South Pacific for a month's rest was Lieut. Commander Henry ("Robert") Montgomery Jr., malaria convalescent, slightly pale and 22 Ib. lighter than when he left Hollywood. He had been with his wife and two children only five days in two years...
...curtailment of guayule culture strikes the best source of natural U.S. rubber, capable of producing 400 Ib. an acre a year. There is no current hope for rubber from any of the thousands of other rubber-bearing plants that have been studied. Cornell's Dr. Lewis Knudson has tried some 30 himself, says "No native plant can be recommended at present as a source of rubber." Swamp milkweed may yield 45 Ib. an acre; golden rod, 75 Ib.; Indian hemp not more than 25 Ib. The Russian dandelion (kok-sagyz), seeds of which were rushed to the U.S. from...
...food banks are really small local packing plants. For the farmer some food banks will slaughter, chill, cut, smoke or freeze, and package. For the urbanite they buy whole sides of beef from the meat wholesaler, cut it to chops, store it away. Extra charges: 1? to 5? a Ib. Even so, locker renters save 50 to 75% compared with retail meat prices; many a farmer eats choice beef...
...pound-equivalent to nearly half of a housewife's total monthly point allowance for canned goods and dried fruit. Naturally, few prunes were bought. OPA dropped the price to twelve points, apparently still too high. Last week one large eastern wholesale house found itself with 2,500,000 Ib. of prunes on hand, and no takers...