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Show KaJ Jfajf mm w Pearson Washington, D. C. BRITAIN VS. RUSSIA One thing which distressed the Flying Senators on their round-the-world inspection was the intense rivalry ri-valry between the British and Russians Rus-sians in the Near East. The senators reported that around the Gulf of Persia, where the Russians Rus-sians take delivery on U. S. lend-lease lend-lease airplanes, the British local commander at first refused to let the Russians set up a local lend-lease lend-lease receiving agency. The Guif of Persia long has been coveted by land-locked Russia as a means of reaching the sea. British opposition presumably was based on this. Finally the British government in London ruled that the Russians could send an airplane mission to the Gulf of Persia, but even then the local British commander, according to the senators, delayed and tried to block the plan. Now, however, the Russians are established at the head of the Gulf and work in close cooperation with U. S. officials. To save manpower, the U. S. army uses skirted natives na-tives to assemble airplanes under the supervision of sergeants and doughboys. Then the planes are turned over to the Russians for inspection. in-spection. In test flights, the Russians Rus-sians cruise all over the Gulf of Persia Per-sia area, obviously have ample opportunity op-portunity to map out the terrain. The Russian base is commanded by a live-wire young general who gets along well with the Americans but is eyed with some suspicion by the British. The senators also reported that when the British were a bit starchy about letting the Russians use the airport at Teheran, capital of Iran, farther north, the Russian army sent in a regiment one night and, without further argument, took over the airport. Since then the British have had to ask the Russians for permission to use it. These are a few of the delicate problems facing the Allies in this suspicious, balance-of-power section of the Near East, where, according accord-ing to the senators, the chief topic of conversation is the political tug- of-war between Russia and Britain. PATRIOTIC U. S. HENS The hens of America are really doing all right by Uncle Sam. Their war effort is producing more eggs than the country has ever seen. Though we are sending 10 billion eggs overseas, 50 billion more remain re-main for our frying pans. This total of 60 billion eggs is an all-time high. Even the domestic SO billion is an all-time high. Passed around to every man, woman and child, it means 346 eggs apiece for the year, or about one a day. This is a lot better than the average. At the moment, eggs are "tight" in the market, because this is the moulting season, when laying always al-ways falls off. But eggs will increase in-crease again when the hens resume full-time production, also when the egg-drying business falls off. This is a new and unexpected turn of events. The tremendously expanded ex-panded egg-drying business was expected ex-pected to take a full 20 per cent of our egg crop, but now the estimates are dropping fast Reason is the British and Russians, after two years of dried egg diet are getting tired of them. They are politely telling the combined food beard and lend lease, "Don't pass those dried eggs around any more." . The dried egg business used a modest 10 million pounds before the war, mostly for cake flour and confectionery con-fectionery purposes. But the submarines sub-marines have made shipping space so tight that space is not available for shell eggs, and the dried egg business has shot up to a capacity of about 400 million pounds. Some of this capacity is now idle, because of Allied distaste for the product, so more fresh eggs will come onto the U. S. market ARMY ADVISES HOUSEWIVES The quartermaster corps feeds so many thousands of mothers' sons that it now dares to tell those mothers moth-ers how to prepare a roast of beef. Experiments In army camps show that if you cook roast at relatively low temperatures, you will have 20 per cent more roast at the end. Cooking at high temperatures shrinks the meat and dries up the Juices. According to QMC, the desirable range of temperature Is 313 to 350 degrees Fahrenheit Cooking an eight pound roast at this temperature tempera-ture will require 4 hours and 10 minutes. In other words, It takes more tlmo than at a higher temperature (at 400 degrees, It takes only 3 hours), but you save the Juices, save vitamins, vita-mins, and will have more roost to slice. WAR CHAFF C. Officials estimate that If Russia gets out of the war, Germany will be able to double or triple the number num-ber of fighter planes which now oppose op-pose Allied bombers from England. C Many Flying Fortrcis pilots are not big six-footers, but little fellows who have to stuff a cushion behind themselves In the driver's seat C Experts who know Italy say there are 1,400 railroad bridges In that country, destruction of which from the air would cripple German troop movements completely. |