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Show MISCELLANY: Chicago: Uncle Sam's wartime call for more food will be answered by a 17,081,000-acre increase in the area planted to 14 major farm crops this spring, according to a statement state-ment of the Middle West Soil Improvement Im-provement committee. "To make this additional acreage yield bigger crops," said the statement, "farmers "farm-ers will have to rely on soil management manage-ment including intelligent rotation, application of the correct analysis of fertilizer for particular crops and soils and the growing of fertility-building fertility-building legumes. London: Seventy Czechs, taken to Germany for forced labor, were reported re-ported shot after a strike in the plant where they were working. Vichy: The execution of 55 French hostages in reprisal for the assassination assassi-nation of two Nazi soldiers was announced an-nounced together with the sabotage of two more German troop trains in the occupied zone. Salt Lake City: Seventeen persons were killed when a United Air Lines Mainliner plowed into a mountain peak while circling for a midnight landing during a wind and sleet storm. |