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Show BRIEFS ... by Baukhage The R & S Pickle Works of Boston. Bos-ton. Mass., wanted to help in the war effort. Within 72 hours, the factory fac-tory was converted to war work, its pickling vats were filled with an acid that provides the necessary preservative coating for incendiary bombs, to meet requirements of the Chemical Warfare Service, Army Service Forces. Production was soon far ahead of schedule. I . . . , j The United States produced more i than 10 billion rounds of small arms j ' ammunition last year. Movement of an armored division and its vehicles by railroad requires 75 trains of from 28 to 45 cars each. Illness and industrial accidents account for over 50 per cent of absences ab-sences from war work. a a A combat soldier's daily food weighs about 5M pounds, while a civilian's averages 3 pounds. Some 3 million seventh and eighth grade Russian students will be sent to help in the field work of state and collective farms for the summer vacation. va-cation. About 8 billion points on the red ration stamps and approximately 6 billion points on the blue stamps are put into circulation monthly by consumers of rationed foods. German parents are complaining that their children are "getting thin," the German newspaper Frankfurther Zeitung said in an article arti-cle reported to the OWL Chaplain (First Lieut.) James Collins Col-lins Ottipoby, a Comanche Indian, is the first of his race to be appointed ap-pointed to chaplain in the army of the United States. Employment of women in shipyards ship-yards has more than tripled within the past year. |