The Manitou Diary of a Philadelphia Girl
A reminiscence by a Philadelphia girl growing up in Manitou during the Little Golden Age 1924 29 recounts friendships with Molly Scharf and Bern a Jansen a large town square with the Manitou House and the Santa Fe tracks a two family house a school and library an early sense of patriotism and social currents the essay blends childhood diary notes with observations on class identity gender and regional culture.
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Thanksgiving Avenue
Manitou
Til
Philadelphia
Molly Scharf
Elmer
Sears Roebuck
Hattie
B. Cynwyd Lloyd
Illinois
Pop
Molly
Cadwalader Shippen
Palmer's
Chicago
Main Street
Manitou High School
Old Prairie College
Prairie
East
Philly
Filly
Kitty
Independence Hall
State House
Board of Education
United States
Assembly
Wyn
Griscom Street
Dette
Bernie
Uncle Elmer
Princeton
Cicero Yard
Ancient Mariner
Vachel Lindsay
Walt Whitman
Shakespeare
Santa Fe
Bernie Jansen
Studebaker
Officers’ Training Corps
Berna
Lena
Trudy Weissenkorn
Pat
Scharfs
Trudy
Ida Meagher
Harvest Street
Scharf
Stummer
Nordstroms
Auntie
Tillie
Grace
National Inventors Council mobilizes American genius
A 1917 18 Naval Consulting Board experience spurs a new push for defense readiness. The National Inventors Council headed by Charles F. Kettering screens ideas from inventors, with 12000 suggestions processed and some already in use. The process begins with evaluation by engineers who classify and test concepts like an amphibian tank to see if they merit further Navy attention.
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Naval Consulting Board
Washington, D. C
United States
Rube Goldberg
America
National Inventors’ Council
United States Department of Commerce
Office of Inventions
Ordnance Department
Air Corps
Signal Corps
Flanders
Roosevelt
Congress
Lawrence Langner
Thomas Midgely
Harold G. Bowen
Navy Office of Inventions
Conway P. Coe
Patent Office
Charles F. Kettering
General Motors Research Corporation
Langner
Kettering
Navy
Navy and London bombing spur inventor ideas surge
The Naval Consulting Board and National Inventor's Council describe how inventor ideas flood in, with 150 daily rising to 250 as Navy mail arrives. Four percent pass to committees, shaping defense or offensive devices. Past war lessons and hopeful progress hint at future powerful, surprising tech against aggressors.
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Council
Washington
Examiners
London
RAF
Naval Consulting Board
National Inventor's Council
Prepare for the Breaks. Lincoln and Thomas Careers
Dale Carnegie recalls Abraham Lincoln missing a Seward nomination due to a printer delay and Horace Greeley’s influence, then highlights Lowell Thomas who prepared for opportunity through travel and speaking. He argues that preparation plus opportunity yields success, while talent alone cannot guarantee it.
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Abraham Lincoln
United States
Chicago
William H. Seward
Lincoln
William Seward
Seward
Horace Greeley
Lowell Thomas
Princeton University
Alaska
Sterling Place
Brooklyn
New York
The
Literary Digest
TODAY'S PUZZLER HORIZONTAL 1 6 Famous American
A crossword style clue list with entries such as 1 6 Famous American 9 Tunnel 10 Boat deck 12 Poem 13 Instrument 14 100 square meters 15 To make thread 16 Preposition 17 To eat sparingly 18 Cuckoo 19 Fortune 22 He was a most important children's 27 Wanders 28 Vulgar fellow 29 To make amends 30 Species 31 Remote 32 Slackened 33 Mine shaft hut 34 Legal rule 35 Fragrant ointment
Butter lump to tennis stroke puzzle list
A compiled answer set linking clues to solutions for Butter lump through Tennis stroke. Includes terms like laughter sound smell drive epic lunar orb and others aligned to vertical clues with brief definitions and cross references.
Quotes on public service and war effort from 1940 era figures
A compilation of brief quotes from Wendell Willkie Charles E Merriam James B Carey Willi Knudsen Arnold Lunn Herbert Morrison and H W Prentis Jr urging public duty unity and prudent wartime preparation. The final line notes a London shoe advertisement urging victory.
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Wendell Willkie
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Ahee the Globe
Hitler
Berlin
H. V. Kaltenborn
New Republic
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Reich
Germany
Europe
William Allen White
Aid the Allies Committee
Robert N. Wilkin
Cleveland
Pierre Riendeau
Montreal
Kitty Foyle
Frankford
Wyn Strafford
Pocono Mountains
Chapter
Inventors
Stuart Chase
Rotarian
Dale Carnegie
Charles E. Merriam
University of Chicago
James B. Carey
Willi Knudsen
Arnold Lunn
Buffalo
Herbert Morrison
Home Security
H. W. Prentis Jr
National Association of Manufacturers
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