Waste Acres Offer Opportunity to Grow Food
War cut marine fish supply by about 22 percent and experts propose pond gardens on farms to produce 100,000,000 pounds or more of fresh fish yearly. Fertilized ponds boost yields, recycling waste land into productive aqua farms with little labor needed.
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U. S. Soil Conservation Service
Soil Conservation Service
When to rise for an older woman in social settings
The guidance says at home or a friend's home you should rise when an older woman enters and offer your chair if it is comfortable. It also advises giving up your seat on public transport willingly, reflecting polite, courteous behavior toward older women.
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Ledger Syndicate
WNU
Through the Looking Glass Party for Family Fun
A Western Newspaper Union release describes a family party theme with invitations to Looking Glass Land and activities. Guests join in signature backward writing, White Knight puzzle beans in a hat, and Wonderland Flower Garden seating games ending with prizes for best guesses and shifts in seating.
The Airman's Prayer by Sergeant Hugh Brodie
A poem by Sergeant Hugh Brodie of the Royal Australian Air Force, acclaimed for its somber tone, expresses a plea for steadfastness and acceptance of death in battle. Brodie is noted as having been posted missing in action.
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Hugh Brodie
Royal Australian Air Force
Brodie
Marines Pride The Best Fed Fighting Men
The article praises U.S. Marines for superior meals and nutrition at Parris Island and Quantico, detailing sample menus for breakfast lunch and dinner. It emphasizes carefully planned menus providing essential vitamins and calories, with identical quality abroad and at home.
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United States
Marine Corps Training Station
Parris Island
S. C
Quantico
Union
British Ferret Cut Axis Arms Secrets
Cairo reports on British intelligence success in preempting German armor designs. Allies learned of the Mark VI and Mark IV tanks months before use, enabling strategic redeployment and defenses. Aerially bombed, the Mark IV was salvaged by Maj. Davis Evans via improvised crane, lifting it onto a barge for shipment to England.
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Cairo
Egypt
Egyptian
Suez
England
Davis Evans
Minute Make Ups By Gabrielle Warn of Metal Case Shortage
The notice warns there will be no metal lipstick cases after current supply is exhausted. Consumers are urged to save lipstick cases beauty cases jars bottles and boxes as they may begin buying only refills.
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Ledger Syndicate
WNU Features
Jumpin Joshua Wins High Jump at Penn Relay Meet
Corporal Joshua Williamson of Camp Pickett clears six and six and three eighths inches to win the high jump event at the University of Pennsylvania relay games held at Franklin Field Philadelphia. His prior record was six feet five inches set at the National AAU games in Bridgeport July 11 1942.
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Joshua Williamson
Camp Pickett
Franklin Field
Philadelphia
Williamson
Bridge Ie
War time cinema lineup and star shifts in Hollywood
Veteran stars like Virginia Vale and Merle Oberon weigh returns to screen while Joan Crawford exits the cast over war film quotas. Directors seek alternative actors for Japanese roles and real life parallels influence casting as Fred Giermann and Albert Parker face health and blindness. Stage and film industry adapt with Stage Door Canteen and Stage Door Canteen producer Sol Lesser arguing for affordable wartime entertainment for the public.
Shopping for Victory With U S War Bonds
An OWI report explains ninety five cents of every dollar in the budget goes to war costs and debt interest while civilian goods shrink. It highlights war bonds as patriotic investments, naming examples like grenades depth charges lifeboat kits and a light tank funded by bonds and destined for action near Jop lines.
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Fred Giermann
Cairo
Franchot Tone
Anne Baxter
Sey
Roosevelt
Office of War Information
OWI
United States
Eddie Rickenbacker
Odds and Ends Highlights of A-List Careers
Claudette Col bert spent her No 17 shoe stamp on tan luggage pumps to match with any color. Dennis Day plans an overseas entertainment tour in mid June. Those We Love moves into the air slot left by Jack Benny with the final Benny broadcast May 30. Marguerite Chapman recalls her operator days with employment number 206 now in Berlin film Ap pointment in Berlin with George Sanders.
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Claudette Colbert
Dennis Day
Jack Benny
Benny
Marguerite Chapman
Columbia
Berlin
George Sanders
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