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...civilians could feel pretty certain last week that no labor draft was going to upset their lives. The Senate Military Affairs Committee,* after listening to the protests of such varied antidraft groups as the National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the C.I.O., the A.F. of L., railway labor, the National Farmers Union, the National Grange, etc., had smothered the makeshift May-Bailey bill, which might have done...
...Americans in Luzon were rushing back onto Bataan and Corregidor. Other Americans swarmed ashore on Iwo Jima-an island as menacingly close to Japan's heart as Bermuda is to New York. The war-worn Chinese rallied to take back a section of the hard-won Canton-Hankow railway line. A jungle-trekking British force popped up to menace the conquered oil-field district of Burma. There were more fires than fire brigades, around the Empire; and the alarm bells still clanged...
MANPOWER Relaxed Good news from the battlefronts flooded Washington like spring sunshine. General George Marshall and Admiral Ernest King were away overseas. The Senate, pondering a manpower draft, listened to objectors (the National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, railway labor, etc.), thought of ways of watering down the bill which the House had passed. Last week the Senate, leaving the bill tucked away in the Military Affairs Committee, put its feet up and relaxed...
...tobacco growers. ¶Oil. California vegetable growers who have tried spraying the soil with a light oil report it highly effective against weeds in carrot and onion fields. ¶ Borax. In heavy applications, this chemical sterilizes the soil against weeds for two years, has given promising results on railway roadbeds and highway shoulders. ¶ Ammonium sulfamate. This new chemical, recently put on the market by Du Pont, has been so successful against poison ivy that enthusiasts predict the complete eradication of that noxious weed from...
...matriarch of the pioneer Melendy family is Vaughan's mother, Madam Exact Melendy, a firm, perceptive, pipe-smoking, rye-drinking woman of 91. Since she was large and tired rather easily, Vaughan built her a miniature railway, running from her high-perched house to the street. Other characters include Vaughan's dull wife Emmy, who prided herself on being a daughter of one of "the Mercer girls" imported from New England by one Asa Mercer to mate with the lonely pioneers, and Vaughan's mistress Pansy Deleath, a pleasant, casual woman whom he met while...