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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1940
Page
2
Ruth Addison writes that women in wartime society adopt practical attire and roles. She notes shifts from skirts to trousers and shelter booties, highlighting home front duties matching Britain’s wartime stance. The piece underscores women’s pivotal, diversified contributions while men serve abroad.
Observers link rising female autonomy and war horrors to mobilization on the home fronts. French women train in anti gas defense and motor duties while British women join a broad array of civilian services including nurses, drivers, canteen workers, and even pilots and bus conductors as the war reshapes gender roles.
At the U S waterways experiment station near Vicksburg 200 workers run a large river model to simulate Mississippi floods. They compare gauges to predict how water moves, silt deposits, and effects on tributaries and towns, using scale, slide rules, and controlled levers.
London reports a shift in fishery policy due to wartime shortages. The ministry of agriculture ended minimum landing size rules to boost food supply, allowing smaller fish to be kept as North Sea war operations disrupt herring trawlers.
Brooklyn man Abner Rabbino and his bride endure a hurricane at sea and an earthquake after their September 16 1933 wedding voyage aboard the Virginia. They survive a perilous six week tour ending with a bankruptcy at Colorado Springs.
Dr John W Studebaker of the U S Office of Education reports rising interest among young men and boys in aviation training. He notes 65 universities offer aeronautical engineering courses and calls preliminary aviation schooling valuable for future engineers pilots and mechanics amid rapid aircraft industry development.
Pattern 2321 provides directions for a hood scarf and muff in 5 to 12 year sizes with loop and single crochet stitches, illustrations, and required materials. Send 15 cents in coins to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth Ave New York NY for this pattern.
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