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...cotton; peanuts have already outstripped rye. Soybeans, peanuts and flaxseed, grown mostly for their oil, now replace the coconut, palm and linseed oil imported by the tankerful before the war. But soybeans also make top-notch fodder and Henry Ford has even made a soybean plastic automobile. Flax makes linen; peanuts make tasty, vitamin-rich soldier rations...
...jobs; others have won bonuses for ideas for plant improvement. They are all working hard and are happy, and we are functioning without labor trouble." He has a closed A.F. of L. shop in his 800-man shipbuilding plant in Duluth, a closed C.I.O. shop in his nearby Klearflax Linen Looms, Inc. (which not only makes linen rugs but, for three years, has enriched itself with a new process for treating coarse flax fiber for cigaret paper). What's more, he believes the closed shop is the best way for an employer to avoid "a fighting, quarreling type...
...preparations of other art institutions has fallen to The Fogg. In March representatives of 15 museums and galleries throughout the country were welcomed here by Director Forbes to study the protection of works of art in wartime. Discussion ranged from how to safeguard against diseases affecting paper and linen in a new location, and the shattering of glass after bombing, to the effects of changes in temperature and light. At the same time, Professor Paul J. Sachs' museum course has devoted more of its study to wartime art problems. Each year the members of this course design and prepare...
White Housekeepers patched up the linen, cut down old tablecloths into tray cloths and napkins. Leftovers from the White House table reappeared disguised as stew, ragout and hash. Scraps that could not be salvaged went to feed the pigs at Washington's six-acre, cooperative Self-Help Farm. White House trash had gone to the metals-salvage campaign, and a Treasury truck stopped weekly to collect old papers...
...those who appreciated him most were the 8,000 women in Chicago's slums whom Dr. DeLee had delivered of babies during his 40-odd years of practice. In 1895, the poor young physician, son of Jewish immigrant parents, scraped together $500, collected a stove, table, chairs and linen, bought two secondhand beds, and started Chicago's first free maternity dispensary in a $12-a-month tenement flat...