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...atom-smashing cyclotron was harnessed to the militarily secret imagination of Nobel Prizeman Ernest Orlando Lawrence. The Signal Corps invaders of the Agricultural College at Davis had not disturbed the quiet of university researchers. They had just discovered, for instance, that of each sugar-beet seed's five segments, only one need be planted-thus avoiding the wearisome labor of thinning...
...nearby Cambridge will be the 1450 women from Wellesley, returned to their studies after a ten-weeks, Fuel-saving layoff, if what Mary C. Lyons, of Lake Waban's publicity office, says is true. Gist of her lengthy (1300 word), report was that her girls had worked hard--"filled seed--packages"--in the experimental interim...
What they could not explain was the landscaping project which was going full blast last week. Between the Pentagon and the Potomac men were working with picks & shovels, bulldozers and trucks, moving tons of earth and stone, lugging in tons of grass seed...
During the Louisiana maneuvers of September 1941, which saw the dawn of the present U.S. Army, Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair was talking to a friend about some necessary weeding out of generals gone to seed. The Army, he said confidently, could find the necessary younger officers to replace the spent militarists...
...Secretary Claude Wick-ard wants 12,000,000 in cities, 6,000,000 more on farms. The Department has arranged for production of a special Victory Garden Fertilizer (three parts nitrogen, eight parts phosphorus, seven parts pot-ash*) and is ready with all kinds of free advice and pamphlets. Seed companies have keyed their advertising to Agriculture's campaign. From almost any catalogue, neophyte gardeners can choose a victory garden combination ($1 and up) with full instructions how, when and where to plant it. With a little luck and work, they will have fresh vegetables on their tables...