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Show B R I E F S . . . by Baukhage The American Palestine committee commit-tee has launched a nation-wide drive to mobilize American public opinion in support of the movement to re-fFtnblish re-fFtnblish the Jewish national home in Palestine. On December 7, 1941, building of a 4-engined bomber required the work of 70 men for 1 year; today, only 17 workers do the same job. Aztec soldiers were paid in cocoa beans. As late as 1880, cocoa beans were still common currency in isolated iso-lated communities of Middle America. Amer-ica. Vacation pay for all workers in the U.S.S.R. is being saved in special spe-cial bank accounts to be spent after the war. . The Veterans administration has paid out more than 30 million dollars dol-lars on account of disability and j death incurred in the present war. i Canned orange and grapefruit juice is supplied to bombing crews and submarine crews. A total of 195,000 tons of lime, enough to make 3,900 heavy carloads, car-loads, is used every year in the United States in connection with agricultural ag-ricultural insecticides and fungicides. fungi-cides. Canned evaporated milk and canned dried milk have enabled the U. S. to have the first "milk army" since George Washington's troops fought in the Revolutionary war. The 450th anti-aircraft artillery automatic weapons battalion, a resourceful re-sourceful Negro battalion that accounted ac-counted for two German bombers and which became the first American Ameri-can Negro combat force to land on European soil, has been cited by ! Lieutenant General Clark for outstanding out-standing performance of duty. |