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...with a higher oil content than the old. An improved alfalfa resists wilt. Two brand-new types of red clover can yield a ton more of hay an acre than the old, once-popular ordinary variety that fell into disfavor because it was not winter hardy. A Canadian wild rye, new as a forage crop, promises heavier yields than the common meadow grass. Flax, a minor crop until 1942, is getting a tremendous boost from the introduction of machines to handle it. Hybrid corn, no newcomer in the Middle-west, is being improved for use all through the U.S. ; this...
Died. Caroline Goodwin O'Day, 67, New York's Congresswoman-at-large from 1935 until she retired this winter; in Rye, N.Y. Georgia-born daughter of a wealthy planter, as a young woman she was a painter and magazine illustrator, turned to social work and New York politics after her husband's death in 1916, was a longtime friend of Eleanor Roosevelt. In Congress she was an all-out New Dealer and anti-war crusader, but voted aye on the declaration of war after Pearl Harbor...
Last week, for instance, the OPA slashed the price of women's full-fashioned nylon stockings from around $2.95 to $1.65. A Manhattan department store was advertising rye whiskey at $2.29 per quart, and Scotch at $3.29 per fifth. Gasoline, which the citizen ought to conserve, is still offered to him at between 17? and 23? per gallon-and the Government is paying a transportation subsidy to the oil companies to keep the price down in the East...
...flag every Sunday. Gambling was sternly forbidden. Baranov forbade prostitution, encouraged his men to live with the Aleutian girls. Men with venereal disease were banished to the woods to treat themselves with "mercurials dissolved in vodka." Moonshining was also banned, but Baranov himself kept "a vat of crab apples, rye meal, and cranberries fermenting with kvass-yeast. Any man off duty was welcome to as much of the stuff as he could hold." This brew supposedly prevented scurvy, certainly helped morale. Said Washington Irving: "He is continually giving entertainment by way of parade, and if you do not drink...
Getting Along. Both the doughboys and their hosts were trying hard to get along. In England Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told them, "We'll even learn baseball if you give us time." Doughboys in southern England pitched in and helped harvest rye, wheat and barley. The British conceded, sometimes disappointedly, that they were not so wild & wooly as expected. Instead, they were willing to indulge...