World Braces for a Pivotal 1940 Year Ahead
Roger Bailey surveys a year of global flashpoints in 1940 from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to Finland Romania and the Balkans. He weighs the Roosevelt third term NLRB and social security first payments plus Far East and Japan China plans and a Byrd Antarctic expedition.
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Roger Bailey
Union
York
Germany
Hitler
Finland
Krem
Balkans
Russia
Romania
Hungary
Bulgaria
Italy
Balkan
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Wang Ching-wei
Joe Louis
New York Yankees
Antarctica
Richard E. Byrd
Hunters Find Moonshine Plant Trapped in House of Mystery
Two Brooklyn youths on a hunting trip near Accord New York in January 1929 were locked inside a windowless frame house by moonshiners who mistook them for revenue agents. A furnace of flames and smoke followed the blast when the still exploded, but state troopers rescued George Quartin and Martin Ross as dawn broke.
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George S. Quartin
Brooklyn
N. Y
Kingston
George Quartin
Martin Ross
Accord
George
Martin
House of Mystery
Western
Union
Refugees Learn English in Australia Program
W European refugees entering Australia are taught English under Mrs Elsa Gormley. The Basic English system provides 850 essential words to help them get by quickly.
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Sydney
N.S. W
Australia
Elsa Gormley
Swing Gives Way to Classics As Talking Machine Reappears
A 1930s trend reversal sees classical music regain prominence in American arts as the talking machine is streamlined for Christmas, phonograph records spread at home, and NBC CBS and local stations boost Bach Beethoven Wagner in Met Opera broadcasts and regular concert programs.
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York
America
Bach
Beethoven
Wagner
National Broadcasting Company
Dixie
NBC
New York
Arturo Toscanini
CBS
New York Philharmonic
Austria
Bayreuth
Turin
New Vermouth Glasses Shape of Square Debuts
New York reports a square vermouth glass designed by speedboat champion Count Theo Rossi for serving vermouth straight. Vermouth, a pre dinner favorite in Europe and South America, has surged in popularity in the United States with imports up 30 percent, prompting American glassmakers to create a dedicated glass.
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New York
Theo Rossi
Europe
South America
Safeguard Root Area of New Tree and Transplanted Evergreens
The soil around a transplanted evergreen should stay thoroughly moist before freezing. Protect the root area with generous leaf mulch and cover exposed positions with support wires for the first year to stabilize the trunk.
Iron and steel shape ancient to modern sports gear
Steel and iron have long dominated sports equipment from Greek javelins to medieval tournaments and today. In 1938 golf clubs consumed about 1,069,000 pounds of steel, with 175,000 pounds for shafts of wood headed clubs and 894,000 pounds for shafts and heads of irons.
Crochet Medallion Pattern 1959 from Sewing Circle
Pattern 1959 offers directions to crochet a medallion with stitch illustrations and a photograph. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. for the pattern at 82 Eighth Ave New York NY. Include name and address and pattern number.
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Sewing Circle
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
N. Y
Pop Corn Fudge Creamy Squares Recipe
Combine two cups popcorn brown sugar and milk or cream with butter and vanilla. Cook until sugar dissolves then to 238 degrees F or soft ball in cold water. Cool, stir in butter popcorn and vanilla beat until creamy shape and cut into squares. Peanuts may be added.
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Supreme Court
Far East
Japan
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Chiang
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Sie
Toscanini
Adventurers’ Club
Photography
FOX Studios
Billings
Montana
Nutter & Moore
Ashland
Oregon
Mod
Excellent Inc
Sac
Jessie L. Gillespie
2Nd St
Pomona
Callf
Auto Court
Ser
Sta
L. A
Equip
Good Inc
Snc
G. Waddington
E. Valley Blvd
Rosemead
Trader Pace
Heart City
Big Neon Inc
W. Hiehe
Ontario
Calif
Good
Houston
Garfield
Alhambra
Greenleaf
Whittier
J, Holland
Garvey
San Gabriel
TMU
Rona
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