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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...munitions was swiftly approved by the Texas House committee. Six college instructors have already been qualified as supervisors by the Army. The students (179 boys, 521 girls) who choose to work two to four hours a day will be helped by seasonally idle farm hands. Wages will be union scale...
...farmers and gardeners are better armed than ever before for this year's battles against their prime enemies-insects and weeds. Against insects, the wonder insecticide DDT is scheduled for large-scale Government tests and a limited amount will be available for civilian experiments this year. Against weeds, the No. 1 enemy, which cost farmers as much ($3,000,000,000) as all other pests combined, the prospects are even brighter. Some promising weapons: ¶ A flamethrower. Used mainly on cotton, sugar cane and corn plantations, this tractor-drawn implement spurts a 2,200° flame along the ground...
Mindful that the U.S. was maintaining a full-scale war of its own in the Pacific, Americans nevertheless could not help feeling that Russia was carrying most of the land-fighting load in Europe. Last week they learned how much the U.S. production machine had contributed to the Eastern Front. On some fronts more than half of the Russian Army's supplies move forward in U.S. trucks. From October 1941 to December 1944 the U.S. had shipped to Russia, via Lend-Lease...
...back-room scene, which provoked an arch rebuke from the New York Mirror, a weekly, of June 13, 1835: "We might be disposed to wish that such superior talents and skill as are here displayed had been exercised on a subject of a higher grade in the social scale. . . ." Another characteristic Mount is Bargaining for a Horse, showing two farmers, standing near a sleek saddle horse tethered to a barnyard fence, and busily engaged in whittling their way through a deal. A third favorite in the show: Farmers Nooning, a sunny, almost odorous scene of farmhands sprawled at rest...
Prospects. Yet Rundstedt's offensive had won Germany a respite in the west. Front correspondents estimated that Eisenhower could not launch a full-scale blow for another month at least. By then, spring thaws in the east would be slowing the Russians, if they were not already halted by overstrained supply lines. And the Nazis had not yet shown what sort of stand they could make in their inner eastern defenses...