Thanksgiving in War Time Reflects Hope for Victory
A 1944 editorial reflects on wartime gratitude and progress against the Axis. It lauds Allied advances in Africa and the Mediterranean and notes air and sea dominance, urging continued sacrifice. It quotes Dartmouth President Ernest Hopkins on liberal education shaping values over mere efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
Africa
Mediterranean
Italy
Hitler
Europe
Pacific
Tokyo
Germany
Japan
Gas warfare and invasion fears from World War II era analysis
The piece argues Hitler cannot invade Britain without air superiority and gas use is impractical from an operational view. It dismisses gas as a decisive weapon, notes Germany’s strength in Italy and Europe, and highlights potential invasion routes through the Balkans and Turkey, with strategic naval and air considerations.
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Paul Mallon
Washington
Hitler
United States
United Nations
England
der Fuehrer
Britain
Churchill
China
Alps
Italy
Europe
Florence
MacArthur
Bougainville
Rabeul
Balkans
Rommel
Turkey
Norway
Berlin
France
Blood Does Not Define Blood Type in Transfusions
Dorothy Thompson argues against segregated plasma banks for negroes and whites, noting blood types come from biology not race. She cites four blood types and stresses blood from any race can save lives, urging readers to drop racial prejudice in transfusions.
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Dorothy Thompson
American Red Cross
Thompson
Winston Churchill
Adolph Hitler
Julius Streicher
G-Girl Chapter 17 The Wardrobe of Wartime Romance
Sally's wartime romance with Ted Burrows intensifies as days blur into golden or gray, with leave nights in Washington becoming gleaming highlights. Ted navigates passes and guard duties, while Sally savors their hush of secrecy and glamour in the Willard Hotel lobby and nearby park.
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Ted Burrows
Sally
Ted
Willard Hotel
Pennsylvania Avenue
White House
Washington
Sally and Ted Clash With a World of Dreams
Sally frets over a note and her love triangle with Ted and Peter. She alternates between hope and fear, balancing hospital shifts and social calls as she recounts the night she met Ted and the mysterious glow of a new romance.
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Sally
Ted
Peter
USC
Sally and Ted Face an Uncertain Army Future
Sally dates Peter and Ted during wartime anxieties as Ted reveals overseas dog tags and uncertain deployment. Sally clings to romance while fearing the future and the possibility of marriage, leaving her questions unanswered as the scene ends with a cliffhanger.
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Sally
Peter
Craig
Ted
USC
Meade
War and Home Front Propaganda Mixed With Babies
Quotations praise United Nations drive and civilian labor as keys to war production. A hospital director lampoons stork deliveries, noting 172 tons of babies with no casualties, mocking wartime fear and urging continued household and factory effort.
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Hartford (Conn
Wilmar M. Allen
Charlie Binkley Loses Both His Boys
In Albuquerque, Ernie Pyle recalls Charlie Binkley, longtime builder of the narrator’s house, who endures the loss of two sons within months due to an operation and a crash in New Guinea. The piece threads through wartime separation, returning veterans, and neighbors’ lives, including Mr Mac Rupert H McHarney and Jack Pogue, a Paratrooper from Estancia Valley, with a poignant note that Jack preferred to fight.
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Ernie Pyle
Albuquerque
N. M
Charlie Binkley
Mesa
Charlie
New Guinea
Campbell's Grocery
Mr. Mac
Naval Aviation
Mac
Pacific
Tunisia
Jack Pogue
Col
Edson Raff
Estancia Valley
Jack
Morianity
Mrs. Pogue
Battle Over Rabaul Sinks Most Japanese Planes
United Press reports Francis McCarthy witnessed a major South Pacific air battle. Japanese waves attacked a U S carrier group near Rabaul, but Allied fighters and gunner fire downed nearly all 72 planes. U S losses totaled 17 planes in the raid.
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Rabaul
United Press
Francis McCarthy
South Pacific
Simpson Harbor
MacCarthy
McCarthy
Paul E. Emerick
Pittsburgh
Emerick
U. P
Gordon Jenkins
Berwick
Jenkins
Pacific Theater
TODAY'S PUZZLER Horizontal Answers
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the of
Wyoming
Assam
Roosevelt
Answer to Previous Puzzle Vertica 1 Negative
Westward clues list maps to tenements and cognates across languages. Names like Roamers and Russian city appear as partial hints guiding a cryptic grid. The puzzle yields a set of matched definitions and letter patterns across eleven rows.
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Amarillo
Texas
Globe-News Publishing Co
Aananrw
Gene Howf
John McCarty
Wesley Izzard
Telephone
All
Liberal College
Ernest Martin Hopkins
Dartmouth College
Mallon
Lydia Gray Shaw
Paul V. McNutt
The
United Press Radio Wire
Glenville Pike
Christian Science Monitor Magazine
Australia
Great Georgina
Outback
Horsay
Blackboy
Wave Hill
Ward
Yugoslavia
Josef Stalin
U. S. Mint
Tayloe
South Carolina
Rudolphir
Hes
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