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Show ; B R I E F S by Baukhage The record made by Victory gardeners gar-deners this season 20 million gardens, gar-dens, four million acres under cultivation, culti-vation, and a total yield of about eight million tons of food. Five thousand people would have to buy $100 war bonds (at the subscription sub-scription price of $75) to pay for the gasoline used on the 1,000 Flying Fortress' raid over the Rhineland. A law passed in 1789 forbids the secretary of the treasury and the treasurer of the United States from buying war bonds. j The school bus has become a war j wagon as important a link in the nation's transportation system as the subway, streetcar or local transit bus, according to the Office of Defense De-fense Transportation. |