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Bethesda, Md...
Rain Shortage. In Montgomery County, Md., one and a half inches of rain had fallen since June 18 (seven to eight inches would have been normal). Typical of troubled U.S. farmers who searched the sky for rain was Montgomery County's John Stiles. In a lifetime of farming, he could not remember a worse dry spell...
...Queen Anne County, Md. reported that farmers had put up for sale 3,060 acres of farm land, 374 cows, assorted draft animals, equipment, farm implements. They were "quitting because they do not see their way ahead...
Rest of the industry is too busy to pay much attention to the fizzled Antonelli. Some of the five big fireworks companies -Unexcelled; National Fireworks Co. of Boston; M. Backes and Sons of Wallingford, Conn.; Triumph Fusee and Fireworks Co. of Elkton, Md.; Essex Specialty Co. of Berkley Heights, NJ.-are operating shell-loading plants. Others are turning out: huge parachute flares for the Air Forces; signal lights, both flare and smoke for the Navy and Merchant Marine ; incendiary bombs for Chemical Warfare; huge cannon crackers for the infantry to toss over the heads of soldiers in maneuvers, condition them...
Dark, shy Dr. Voegtlin has headed the Institute (in Bethesda, Md.) since 1938. Since he joined the Public Health Service in 1913 he has headed research which compared the acidity and oxygen consumption of cancerous and normal cells, calculated the amount of vitamin C in tumors, discovered chemicals which produce cancer, studied the effect of radio waves on cancer...