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Show HIGHLIGHTS . . . in the week's news I RICE: This year rice production reached the jjighest level in history at more than 70 million bushels, 48 per cent above the ten-year average, aver-age, 1932-42. BOMBER: A new "super" bombing bomb-ing plane that is called better than the B-29, itself a new wonder, is now in production, according to the chairman of the house military af- 1 fairs committee. i FORTUNE: The estate of Mrs. ' Charles Deering, widow of the former for-mer board chairman of the International Inter-national Harvester company, will be , distributed among six grandchildren. ' It is valued at $4,750,000. ! PASTOR: The Rev. Charles Hors- ' well, who drew nation-wide at- ! tention last summer when he staged ; a 42-day "fast unto death," sue- j cumbed to a heart attack in Sauga-tuck, Sauga-tuck, Mich. He was 86 years old. Two days after he returned from his wife's funeral, on June 13, he refused to eat, saying: "I want to join my wife." j EGGS: So splendidly have American Amer-ican hens responded to the call for more production that eggs are coming com-ing into wholesale markets in greater great-er volume than they can be sold or stored, dealers report. They attribute attrib-ute the increased supplies partly to the fact that last spring's pullets are now beginning to lay. Another factor fac-tor is the lack of a government program pro-gram for dried eggs. SHUTDOWN: The Utah ordnance plant, Salt Lake City, has been closed down by the war department. Officials explained that the supply of small arms, which the plant was manufacturing, is sufficient for the present. FARM MACHINERY: The head of the WPB farm equipment division divi-sion predicts that production of farm machinery in 1944 will fall about 10 per cent below the goals originally set. He said that bearings and malleable mal-leable castings are the most scarce items, forming the bottlenecks in the program. |