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...hunter" pulls a trigger, releases a high-pressure charge which saturates the air of tent, hut, or dugout with a quick insect-killing mixture of sesame oil and extract of pyrethrum flowers, vaporized by Freon. Aerosol, says the Army, tracks down mosquitoes to the last, remote fold of clothing and tent. Chief producer of aerosol is Westinghouse. But Freon is still the essential spreading agent of aerosol...
Hastings today contains a hodge-podge of men from different walks of life doing different things, but the great majority of those there today will fold their tents by November...
...Henry Ford and Charles Figy, Michigan's Commissioner of Agriculture. Ford, who owns the acre of land used for the project, brought along a -year-old self-raking reaper for use in the harvesting. Figy came to inspect the wheat which in its first harvesting had multiplied 50-fold, almost twice Michigan's average. So rapidly did the wheat grains grow that Hayden calls them "dynamic kernels." Next year, Hayden expects to harvest from 15 to 20 acres...
...plane may release a platoon of paratroopers, then circle back to land a little behind the lines and take on 18 to 24 wounded men. Conversion is simple: the evacuation team (a nurse and an enlisted man) fold back the seats and fish up webbing from below the floor boards to support litters. The only other special equipment is a medical supply...
...this is far from meaning that the Axis is ready to fold, but is impressive evidence of the state of mind on the Continent this week...