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Rice allotments must be made by December 31. Although no loans are mandatory, rice growers have their own safeguard against overproduction-anyone producing rice for the first time in five years must take an acreage allotment 25% smaller than his farm would otherwise get. Marketing quotas will be invoked when supplies reach 10% above normal, with a penalty of ¼? a pound...
...Billboard posters (2,000) went up all over the country, showing a happy couple playing with their healthy baby, and urging: "Safeguard Baby's Right to Be Born Healthy. Every expectant mother should go early to a physician for an examination and blood tests...
...Pittsburgh's all-paved airport solely by instruments-and thus claimed to have made the first commercial blind landing. There are Army, Navy and airline blind landing systems. The one used in this case is called "Air-Track," a radio-guided approach system designed to standardize and safeguard all landings, but still awaiting Bureau of Air Commerce approval for all weathers...
...Adolf soon will be over the fence. Minister Delbos reassuringly announced: "France stands by her pledged word that she will submit to all sacrifices to sustain mutual obligations under treaties and support all aims to safeguard peace...
Said Benjamin Franklin: "Mechanical thrift for a mechanical age is an essential. The best safeguard for national investments is a nation of investment-minded people. At present, the opportunities for thrift are restricted by the time factor." He was speaking to the Manhattan convention of the Thrift and Security Foundation. He is a descendant of a brother of Patriot Benjamin ("A penny saved . . ."). Franklin, an industrial engineer and business counselor, has a grandson to carry on the name...