Midnight matinee and campus notes highlight Amarillo events
A wide survey of Amarillo college life and local theater plans shows a midnight matinee for Greek War Relief at the Texas Theater with proceeds to charity. Reports cover university fraternal events, campus clippings, and a Senate hearing summary on wartime financing and civilian mobilization.
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Texas
Yugoslavia
Warner Bros
River's End
Lyric
Star
Rex
Liberty
Jareeks
Skeet Gibson
Amarillo
Bob Hawk
San Antonio
Oklahoma City
Skeet
Board of Direcors
University Fraternity Club
Herring Hotel
JFC
Lubbock
UFC
Blackstone Hotel
Amarillo College
The late starter who shaped Camelot Old Style type
Frederic W. Goudy born in Bloomington Illinois faced early setbacks yet persisted as a bookkeeper. He began type design at 40 and created 110 faces becoming a renowned designer living in Marlboro New York. His story urges effort over rushing life milestones.
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Forest Hills
Lone Island
New York
Bloomington
Illinois
Frederic W. Gouldy
Dickensin Type Foundry
Boston
Mass
Frederic Goudy
Marlboro
Crossword Puzzle Highlights British Puzzler Facts
The long readable fragment presents a British Today puzzle with many numbered clues across and down. It includes references to famous poets, gods, and common terms, alongside embedded historical journalism on Hitler and Churchill. The piece blends a quiz page with wartime commentary.
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Hitler
Mr. Churchill
How Business Moved Pw Me El. Ria Food Prices
Local market notes show shifts in food prices as merchants adjust stock levels and consumer demand. Regional reports track price changes for staples and fresh produce, outlining factors behind the moves and noting any supply concerns.
Quotations on War, Youth, and Governance
A collection of comments from Henry Ford and Prof. James T. Shotwell debating leadership roles for youth and postwar futures. Ford questions why soldiers cannot govern, while Shotwell foresees enduring implications beyond Hitler’s era.
Henpen Army in Russia Reduces Insect Load
Twelve thousand hens were mobilized in southern Russia for an insect control experiment reported by Socialist Agriculture. Each hen ate about 600 bugs daily. after 60 days field inspection found one to two bugs per square yard, down from 10 to 12. Hens borrowed by the Odessa beet sugar trust were paid half an egg daily per bird.
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Cialist Agriculture
Odessa Beet Sugar Trust
Answers to Crackers editorial page questions
The page lists answers to a quiz with attributions: Pasteur medicine Jess Willard boxing Charles Edison politics Rudyard Kipling literature Marconi radio Wilbur Shaw auto racing George Lupino theatre Auguste Rodin art Groucho Marx motion pictures.
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Louis Pasteur
Jess Willard
Charles Edison
Rudyard Kipling
Guglielmo Marconi
Wilbur Shaw
George Lupino
Auguste Rodin
Julius (Groucho) Marx
Navy aviators choose the black panther as dive bomber symbol
Airsignia AP notes Bombing Squadron 3 favors the black panther as the most typical dive bomber in the animal world. They describe the panther stalking by stealth, using high speed and decisive strikes, linking these traits to navy bombers and pilots.
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Navy
Old Army Life Modernized By New Training Methods
The piece outlines how the U S Army has shifted to more informal norms, reduced formal salutes unless requested, and favors comfort in gear with canvas puttees and baggy trousers. Training now relies heavily on motion pictures, with over 60 films explaining tasks from bombing targets to animal care, while recreation and reading facilities expand for troops.
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Jack Stinnett
United States Army
Census findings show old Chicago man aged 128 emigrated from Egypt
The 1940 Census records an oldest living man in Chicago aged 128 who emigrated from Egypt. The report also notes U S sales across 4000 plus department stores near 4 billion dollars and diverse industry data from textiles to food retail.
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Chicago
Egypt
U.S
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Bill
Kenneth Wheatley
Strom
Bob Lofgrin
Ishears
Dr. Mead
Phi Theta Kappa
C. A A. Mechanical School
United States Navy
Cadif of
Centralia
Loring Reed
CAA
Washington
M. Loring
Montague
Veterans Hospital
de Vona McKee
de Vona
Bill DE Sautell
Paul Mallon
King Features Syndicate, Inc
House Appropriations Subcommittee
Roosevelt
Stimson
Taber
Knudsen
Cannon
Smith
Ludlow
Senate
Woodrum
House Appropriations Committee
Treasury Department
Department
Mr. Knudsen
OPM
Britain
Jake
Auld Lang Svne
Dorothy Thompson
German Republic
Germany
Italy
Russia
France
India
Europe
Czecho-Slovakia
Bulgaria
Poland
General Wood
Churchill
Japan
China
Ethiopia
Finland
Spain
Ludendorf
America First
The
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Ernie Pyle
London
America
Eddy Gilmore
Associated Press
Thames Embankment
Eddy
Walter Pipes
Washington News
England
Liverpool
Bristol
Mr. Murray
St. Michael's Church
Murrays
John
Midlands
Democracy
British Asia
Pacific Ocean
Australia
Canada
United States
Iron and Steel
Great Britain
Atlantic Ocean
Latin America
Greece
British Africa
British Empire
U. S
Henry Ford
James T. Shotwell
Carnegie Peace Foundation
Henpeck
Airsignia
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