Globe News column debates air power and transport costs
William Allan Patterson argues air freight costs are currently prohibitive, comparing train and ship costs to air travel. The piece notes planes may cut costs as technology advances, while asserting trains and ships remain essential. The column also recalls Allied campaigns in North Africa and references a British political adviser on fortress plans.
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Siedair William Allan Patterson
Jiged Air Lines
Chicago
San Francisco
Patterson
Brisbane
North Africa
Hitler
Bizerte
Gibraltar
Afri Dunkerque
Ernest Jackh
Destiny of our era shifts toward liberal democracies
Walter Lippmann argues that fascism will not define the era and that liberal democracies will shape the destiny after Dunkirk and Pearl Harbor. He credits civilization’s universal tradition rooted in the Mediterranean and warns against frightened minds reacting with rigid ideologies.
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Walter Lippman
France
Britain
Lippmann
Franco
Mussolini
Dunkerque
Pearl Harbor
Mus
Mediterranean Sea
Munich
Suez to Singapore Instalment XIT Second Desres Readiness
An American reporter aboard with Lt Halton meets Captain Tennant on the bridge as the ship sails toward the Malaya coast and Indo China. Tennant discusses potential Japanese convoy encounters and readiness levels while the crew anticipates action and possible air or sea attacks by dusk or noon tomorrow.
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Halton
Gallagher
Abrahams
Tennant
Captain Tennant
America
Rome
Yugoslavia
Middle East
Malaya
Patani
Indo- China
Prince of Wales
Gal
Wales
Scapa
Mediterranean
Atlantic
Pacific
Denby
Japan
Catapult deck orders and shipboard talks during Singapore patrol
A wartime diary style report from 1942 details shipboard routines and tensions aboard a fleet air arm unit near Singapore. It covers emergency stores checks, crew chatter about possible Japanese or Dutch aircraft, gun crews on standby, and a pilot’s discussion about flare procedures. The narrative also notes Mr Guttman’s Nazi costume investment, a fall injuring Sub-Lieutenant Page, and sightings of a Catalina. It concludes with plans to oil destroyers and the note that American ships now operate from Singapore.
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Fleet Air-Arm
Denby
Gestapo
Adolf Hitler
Guttman
Vienna
Paris
Poland
Dejon
France
Gutman
Page
London
Repulse
Sir Monson
E. J. Spooner
Singapore
Random House, Inc
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Michael Decorates Poopa-Poona Streets For Santa Belief
Michael Bartholomew Wolfington decorates Poopa-Poona with colored streamers and scraps to convince children there is a Santa Claus. The plan wins cheers in the town but some elders remain skeptical as Christmas nears and Michael seeks to fill the Kingdom with goodies.
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Poopa-Poona
Michael Bartholomew Wolfington
Santa Claus
Michael
Santa
Roderick Benbow
Santa Land
Mcchael
Abigale
An - Up
Micael
Roderick
Social Etiquette Across The Street Guiding Partners
This item asserts proper conduct for spouses in public: a husband should guide his wife across a street, should not publicly contradict her, should not fill in or correct her stories, and should not disparage in laws to outsiders. The passage emphasizes character and institutions over resources.
Halder ousted as Hitler assails staff chief in Berlin
Hitler berates Col. Gen. Franz Halder, the famed general staff strategist, accusing him of failing to meet demands. News accounts trace Halder’s dismissal as part of a broader Nazi shake-up, with Kurt Zeitzler named as the new chief of staff amid court theater in Berlin.
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Adolf Hitler
Franz Halder
Moltke
Schlieffen
Stalingrad
Hitler
Halden
United States Office of War Information
Germany
Trots Allt
DNB
Gustav Siegfried Eins
Gestapo
Halder
Kurt Zeitzler
Zeitler
Heinrich Himmler
Fedor von Bock
Ritter von Leeb
Heinz Guderian
Berlin
The Old Navy Game
Fletcher Pratt, a New York military expert, invented a naval war game in 1929 that predicted the Graf Spee’s loss. In 1939 players imagined three light ships sinking the German battleship and proved vindicated when Graf Spee did so off Brazil six months later. Pratt’s 1940 book spurred 20 plus clubs nationwide in weekly floor battles.
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Fletcher Pratt
New York City
Admiral Graf Spee
Graf Spee
Brazil
Pratt
Today’s Puzzle Answers and Clues List
A mixed set of crossword like clues with numbered entries across and down. Includes references to Spanish foreign minister Francisco, Javanese terms, compass pairs, heraldic terms, measurements, and common abbreviations. The vertical clues mirror the across items, covering astronomy, chemistry, geography, and language related hints.
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Amarillo Globe
Amarillo
Texas
el John -McCarty
SUEZ
BY Cecil Brown
Hollywood
Henry Guttman
Jugoslavia
20Th Century-Fox
Lucrece Hudgins
Newsweek
Zeitzler
Ewald von Kleist
Russia
Reichswehr
Himmler
Junkers
New York Times
Kansas City Star
Francisco
Abraham
Upper House of Congress
Egypt
Tara Root
Clara
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