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Show 1 1 . BRIEFS.. . by Baukhage Shoes are being made with soles . of plastic, felt, wood, combinations ! of cotton and wool, cord and friction j belting and other fabric and syn- j thetic substances. . I Women war workers at Douglas ; Aircraft company have released men to the armed forces to the point where at one plant, they comprise 59 per cent of shop personnel. ... ; Already in Brazil, the equivalent j of 200 cattle has been carried in a single airplane (in dehydrated form). There are now more than 200 dehydration plants in the United States according to the department of agriculture. . . An indication that the Nazis are 1 hard pressed for non-ferrous metal scrap is contained in an authorita-: authorita-: tive report that such scrap has been j made legal tender for the payment of certain taxes in occupied France ,the OWI says. 1 The goal set for the third war loan drive, starting September 9, will be 15 billion dollars. ... So serious is the Italian coal supply sup-ply situation as a result of the RAF bombing of Germany's Ruhr valley that Italians are now trying to raise 40,000 tons of coal from Trieste harbor har-bor where it had fallen from ships during coaling operations. ... The senate committee on small business advocates the use of the requisitioning power of the armed forces to absorb poultry, and poultry poul-try products wherever found on the black market. The death rate of army evacuation evacua-tion hospitals in the African campaign, cam-paign, between 2 and 3 per cent, was the lowest of any army in history his-tory compared with a 15 per cent rate in World War I. Plasma, excellent excel-lent surgery and sulfa drugs were credited with cutting the death rate. |