New Yorkers Talk of Writers and War Era Echoes
Richard Tregaskis returns with a new manuscript after Canal Diary success, while Herbert Clyde Lewis and Whit Burnett navigate magazine deals and film praise. Notes on journalists, fortune tellers, and media reflections frame a wartime media landscape. Cesar Romero joins the Coast Guard as a new series hints at renewed vice exposure.
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Richard Tregaskis
INS
Harvard
Herbert Clyde Lewis
Herald Trib
The
Mags
Whit Burnett
Story Magazine
Lewis
Quilligan
20Th Century Fox
Jimmy Durante
Cosmopolitan
Jan Valtin
George Sylvester Viereels
FBI
Harry James
Robin and
Warren
U.S
Cesar Romero
Coast Guard
Pattern No 8412 offers multiple sizes and sleeve options
Pattern No. 8412 lists sizes 12 14 16 18 20 40 42 and 44. Size 14 false with short sleeves and 43 percent yards of 3 inch material noted, plus long sleeves and 434 yards.
Pattern No 8342 Material and Order Notice
Pattern No 8342 comes in sizes 12 14 16 20 40 and 48. Size 14 ensemble uses 43 yards of 30 inch material. Due to high demand and war conditions some orders may take longer to fill. Send your order to Name Address.
Celestials and other trivia from historical text
Answers to questions about celestial names for Celestials, the wind williwaw, the bloodiest year, veterans in current conflict, home of the Kaf firs, Earth's rotational period analogs, a war song line, the states-general, continental Europe legal code foundation, and Axis war declaration by Indian tribes.
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Kaffirs
States-General
Continental
Europe
Answers 1 Chinese 2 Alaska wind disrupts plots 1942 war toll
Authorities report 2,000,000 men from all nations killed in the war during 1942. About 250,000 are noted elsewhere. South Africa is linked to the data. Mars completes a full day in 24 hours 37 minutes. The Star Spangled Banner is cited. Netherlands and the Code of Justinian are referenced. The Comanche Kiowa and Apache tribes declare war at a council honoring warriors and recruiting Indian youths.
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Alaska
South Africa
Mars
Netherlands
Alling Orders Require Clarification in Several Items
The phrase appears incomplete but indicates that Alling orders need specification for a few items. Further context or full text would pin down the exact requirements or affected products and deadlines.
Destroyer Escort Ships Aimed at Submarine Menace
The new destroyer escort ships will be highly valuable in combating the submarine menace. Known as DEs, they can be mass produced, carry depth charges cannon torpedoes and anti-aircraft guns, voyage long convoy routes, and cost only about a fourth as much as destroyers.
Humorous Briefs and Jokes From a 20th Century Page
A collection of quick quips and vignettes on traffic, marriage, draft age, and social norms. A young woman’s arrest leads to a reveal about her car. Banter about marriage, in-law visits, and a farmyard exchange with a draft-age youth color the piece, offering light social commentary.
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Make
Food care hints and kitchen tips from a bygone page
A collection of practical dos and don’ts for cooking and food prep. Advice covers defrosting meats, jelly setting, polishing surfaces with linseed oil, preserving onions, wood siding finishes, lemon and apple flavoring, meat grinder cleaning, mayonnaise thickness, and baking potato skins. Also suggests a spring rhubarb shortcake with rosy sauce on warm biscuits.
Airplanes and Pilots in World War I Then and Now
World War I saw the US field 55 planes with 51 deemed obsolete by the advisory committee on aeronautics. Allied totals began around 700. end war airpower soared with Britain at 14 000, France 12 000, US 10 000, and Germany about 1 000. Trained pilots rose from about 1 000 in 1914 to over 100 000 in four years, and today exceed 250 000.
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United States
Great Britain
France
Germany
Admiring Admirals and Camel Cigarettes
The piece explains the origin of admiral from the Arabic amir al and notes Camel cigarettes as a top choice among Navy and Army service members based on sales records. It also mentions sending Camels to soldiers overseas or at U S posts, with restrictions on overseas packages.
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Amir-Al
Navy
Army
Marines
Coast Guard
U. S
Pattern 7468 Cloth and Scarf Instructions Chart Slitches
Pattern 7468 provides instructions and a chart for making a cloth and a scarf. It includes illustrations of slitches and notes on materials needed for completion.
Odors From Bacteria Describe Everyday Scents
Col lier's notes that bacteria produce a range of odors permeating large areas. The scents include the bouquet of wines perfumes tobacco and butter cheeses plus sea breeze woods in winter a freshly tilled field and earth after rain.
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Collier’s
Sharp Shooting In the Solomons Antiaircraft Fire Record
Amet 4 i¢an soldiers operating a battery of 0 mm guns shot down a number of Japanese planes at the rate of one for every 50 shots fired, a record unparalleled in antiaircraft marksmanship.
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Solomons
Amet
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Russia
Smolensk
Dinah Shore
Paul Whiteman
Wizards
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Wallace Carroll
Pierre Laval
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Somerset Maugham
Red Book
London
Henry Luce
Clare
Luce
James Burchard
World-Telegram
Stars and Stripes
Algiers
Burchard
Gma
Montgomery Street
San Francisco
Sewing Circle
Neediecraft Dept
Minna
Calif
Ea Car
Clabber Girl
Kellogg's
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