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Blister rust cannot live on pine alone. The spores which leave the pine must find a temporary resting place on the leaves of currant or gooseberry bushes. There they develop as parasitic growths which generate a new and different generation of windborne spores which, in turn, infect the pines. These...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Blister War | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

The Chicago area was under drastic coal and electric power conservation restrictions. Manufacturers and other large power users were cut to 24 hours of operation a week. Stores, theaters, amusement places were permitted only four hours' use of electricity a day. Large-scale layoffs of workers in the Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Threat Comes True | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Conservation of nearly one ten of wheat per week is no small contribution when added to the savings of similar programs being organized throughout the country. Equally important, the University has agreed to turn over one thousand dollars weekly to the Committee if the proposals are accepted in full by...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Back That Ballot | 4/30/1946 | See Source »

Similar warnings came to the Combined Food Board (the U.S., Britain and Canada), which was more concerned with dividing up the existing supply than prodding production. When the demands grew more insistent, President Truman made an occasional conservation appeal to the people. But it was not until Feb. i that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Anatomy of Failure | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Since then, Big Lick, and Pastor Smathers have built other things: a small health center which now houses a resident nurse, study clubs to plan and carry out better farming techniques, a cooperative homestead plan to encourage young couples to stay in Big Lick. The state college and TVA have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pastor Smothers | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

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