Guadalcanal Diary excerpt from September NRO book
The narrative recalls Guadalcanal frontline conditions with mortars at a tractor camp and pilots in weary flight schedules. It mentions dive bombers attacking Gizo, radios, and radio stations, plus a marine flyer who parachuted after oxygen failure and survived by evading Japs, later killing three enemy soldiers in self defense.
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Fike
Gizo
Russell Islands
Walter W. Coolbaugh
Clark Summit
Giza
Santa Isabel
Siege and survival notes from a soldier in the Pacific
The diary reveals a soldier who taps with a rifle butt and a bullet to reach his lines, subsists on edible ants and snails after studying entomology, and quotes Col Edson planning a dawn assault in the Tanu Pont area with instructions to join at the embarkation point.
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Col. Edson
Tanu Pont
Rattles and Beliefs Inspire Mind and Manners Dialog
A humorous interview discusses how rattles soothe nerves from babies to adults, noting trains’ rhythmic sleep, electric water baths, and a doctor’s calming motor. It explores masculinity tests by a Stanford professor and the effect of belief on life, citing Lefty Gomez and Finsler’s comet.
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Lewis Terman
Stanford
The Poet of the People by Edgar A Guest in Wartime Verse
The piece cites Edgar A. Guest under WITLER'S WORLD criticizing Hitler’s bid for global domination. It condemns the idolization of military power, rumors of a new world order, and a world where decency and truth fade away under tyranny and war.
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Edgar A. Guest
the Poet of
the People
10 20 30 Years Ago March 6 1933 Item Summary
A Cedar Rapids man Carl J Sandhagen receives a U S patent for a shampoo lavatory invention. Chicago mayor Anton Cermak dies from Feb 15 assassin bullet wounds. R L Maize elected head of local United Commercial Travelers. Registered mail value raised to 100 dollars. Barish Brothers of Sioux City lease land for a brick garage. Cedar Rapids clubs back land purchase for riverbank parks or public buildings. Extra streetcars added to the Bever Park line.
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Carl J. Sandhagen
Cedar Rapids
United States
Anton Cermal
Chicago
R. L. Maize
United Commercial Travelers
Barish Brothers
Sioux City
Second Avenue
Sixth Street
Corn price report and local business plan notes
A grain market entry reports corn selling for 45 cents a bushel during rush hours in Cedar Rapids. Oskaloosa businessman Lowe Rosenbaum prepares rooms on the Granby building’s fourth floor for a new store named Louie’s Upstairs Clothes Shop. A metric comparison notes the Norwegian mile equals seven English statute miles.
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Cedar Rapids
Lowe Rosenbaum
Oskaloosa
Granby
Louie
U S Army Insigne Puzzle Refers to Insignia Terms
Puzzle lists horizontal and vertical clues about military insignia terms and related abbreviations, ranging from corps insignia and bone fide elements to ranks, symbols, materials, and body parts, including references to Pearl Harbor era phrasing and common crossword style hints.
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Guadalcanal
NRO
Richard R. Amerine
Lawrence
Kan
Cape Esperance
Airport Bt
BY Richard Tregaskis Illustrations
BY I. B. Hazelton
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Boots
Arm & Texe
Tame
Ace
the Girl
BY Edgar Martin
Prooen
CNET
Coomt. Lse
Rox Crane
Ella Cinders
MR. Hoops
R Reed
U. S. Pat
By Bill Conselman
Charlie Pluntb
MR. Hoofs
Jim
Little Abner
Henrietta bin Hyar
Cisnifee
Henrietta's bin Hyarty
BY AL Capp
Cage
Arlic Lke Ee
Donald Duck
Walt Disney
Ter
Thimble Theater
Popeye
Insteat
Joe Palooka
Superman
Jerry Silgel
Joe Sivster
MR. Fixi
Mandrake the Magician
BY Lee Falk
Phil Davis
Tim Tyler
Tim
Lyman Young
Russ Keene
Cutte
Phantasho
ST Column
the Octopus
Trikie
Albert E. Wiggum
Lefty Gomez
Finsler
Comet
Chesterton
Witler’s
Hitler
God
Walla
Bever Park
Gazette
U.S. Army Insigne
U.S. Army
Zine Icie
Istry
India
Herbert
Lehman
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