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Show BRIEFS . . . 6y Baukhage There are 1,700,000 rural boys and girls 10 to 21 years old who are now members of 4-H clubs. They live in every county in the United States, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The war department has revealed that the army air forces have destroyed de-stroyed 40 per cent of Germany's capacity to produce fighter planes. Fewer package wrappings will be available for retail shoppers this year, according to WPB. There will be enough bags for assorted grocers If housewives save these bags and take them back to stores for their own re-use. Intensive training in life-saving enabled American merchant seamen of the SS Monterey to rescue 1,675 survivors of a torpedoed troop transport trans-port in the Mediterranean, according accord-ing to the War Shipping administration. Production of prewar models of all-metal domestic ice refrigerators will not be resumed in the near future, fu-ture, the WPB reports, mainly because be-cause reversion would involve a long change-over period. Civilians in the U. S. will have more frozen vegetables during the next five months, as a result of an expected record high production. Spices were tin can and refrigerator refrigera-tor until 1755. Not until the middle of the 18th century, when the theory of refrigeration was discovered, did a new method for preserving and preparing meat and other foods develop. de-velop. However, in China and North Africa, where there are no facilities for refrigerator operation, spices are still used as a preservative. The Japanese war ministry has been experimenting with packed snow in the construction of air raid shelter,, |
