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School lunches in country and city.

Description: Discusses the importance of the development and implementation of school lunch programs in both rural and urban schools.
Date: March 1942
Creator: Sherman, Caroline B. (Caroline Baldwin); Southworth, Herman M. (Herman McDowell), 1909- & Klayman, Maxwell Irving, 1917-
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Rat-Growth Study of Typical Low-Cost Texas Diets

Description: The purpose of this study is to determine the individual and accumulative effect of yellow and white corn meal, cowpeas (black-eyes), fortified oleomargarine, salt pork, molasses, peanuts, cabbage, irradiated evaporated milk, tomatoes, and sweet potatoes upon the nutritional value of the resulting diets.
Date: 1942
Creator: Hunter, Margaret
Partner: UNT Libraries

Homemaker's war guide.

Description: Chart with columns providing illustrated suggestions for supporting the war effort. Colors used are red, blue, black/gray and white. Topics include conserving, storing, and reusing food, textiles, rubber, and metals, and instructions for taking protective measures in case of attack, and for participating in wartime community organizations. Centered at top of the poster is a graphic image representing women in various work and military uniforms, standing with airplanes, ambulances, a car, and a … more
Date: 1942
Creator: United States. Office of War Information. Division of Public Inquiries.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Experiment Station Record, Volume 85, July-December, 1941

Description: Volume provides abstracts of agricultural experiments conducted during the year. Also includes statistics, convention reports, bulletins, bibliographies, and listings for Spanish edition publications from the Puerto Rico station. Name and subject indexes start on page 867.
Date: 1942
Creator: U.S. Department of Agriculture. Office of Experiment Stations.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The History of the Growth and Development of the Health Service Program of North Texas State Teachers College from November 1918 through August 1941

Description: The purpose of this study is to trace the growth and development of the health service program of the North Texas State Teachers College from 1918-1941 through Campus Chat files, the Minute Book of the Board of Regents of the Teachers College, college records, hospital records, and personal interviews with staff members of North Texas State Teachers college who have been affiliated with the program since its beginning in 1918.
Date: May 1942
Creator: Vick, Mildred Wilkerson
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Vitamin C Content of Eight Varieties of Sweet Potatoes and the Effect of Cooking on the Vitamin Content

Description: Since sweet potatoes, which also furnish vitamin A, are a common food in the popular diets of Texas and are so generally grown over the state, the purpose of this study is (1) to ascertain the amount of vitamin C in eight of the varieties most commonly grown and (2) to determine the effect of the three most popular methods of cooking (boiling, baking, and candying) on the vitamin C content of these varieties of sweet potatoes.
Date: 1942
Creator: Eakle, Dorothy
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Democracy Means All of Us: How Communities Can Organize to Study and Meet Community Needs With Special Suggestions for Developing Nutrition Programs in Wartime.

Description: Booklet describing how to organize local committees for nutrition education programs during wartime, withexamples and suggestions for small and large communities, and for ways to involve youth in the effort. It also provides guidelines for evaluating the success of a local program.
Date: 1942
Creator: United States. Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services. Nutrition Division.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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