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Graettinger Times

Location

Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 15, 1941

Page

6

Hidden War on the High Seas Forces Panama Canal Threat

Major Benning maneuvers aboard a freighter as Bravot and Schmolz plot to wreck the Panama Canal. He seizes the radio room, coerces the operator, and drafts a warning to alert American forces about the imminent danger near Limon Bay and Gatun Locks.

Schmolz Benning Bravot Bravat Tampico Vera Cruz Coast Artillery Canal Limon Bay Panama Land Smidt Gatun Locks Limon’ Bay New York Panama Canal

Framed spy Benning fights for life on a doomed ship

A covert U S operation spirals into peril as Benning, trusted by two officers, is betrayed aboard a ship. Schmolz orders him overboard but a daring standoff ends with a staged hold transfer. Benning survives the fall and ponders the doomed voyage toward a perilous canal crossing.

U. S Mexico City Benning Fincke Drarvot Schmolz Smidt Himmell Atlantic Cristobal Chatobal

Fiendish Panama Canal plot explodes amid jungle chaos

Benning and Grimes race to defuse a dynamite laden ship as Schmolz and henchmen trigger detonators. After a perilous rescue on a moonlit deck, Benning escapes to alert officers at Mindí. A series of blasts ring Gatun Lake and shatter the scene, setting up a dramatic cliffhanger.

Benning Bravot Schmolz Grimea Grimes Sentrien Major Benning G-2 Mindi Mindl Sierra Quebranda Marlin Bedlam Gatun Lake

General quiz questions from Ask Me Any How far apart Asia and North America at Bering Strait

A set of trivia questions covering geography and history. Items include the width at the Bering Strait, a thimblerigger, polar bear ice behavior, the Pauline epistles’ addressee, the smallest deer, pewter composition, Grand Banks location, Brazil versus the United States in size, and the founder of psychoanalysis.

North America Asia Bering Strait Brazil United States

Answers to a Variety of Riddles and Facts

A compilation of trivia items including distances, a swindling game using three thimbles and a pea, polar bear foot hair, Salonika, the Indo-Chinese mouse-deer weighing about four pounds, tin, a claim about area off Newfoundland larger by 250000 square miles, and Sigmund Freud.

Salonika Indo- China Newfoundland Sigmund Freud

New Ideas for Home Makers by Ruth Wyeth Spears

New Ideas for Home-makers discusses small windows and book shelves flanking a fireplace creating repetitive rectangular shapes. The article highlights a mantel built from three boards with simple mouldings to break the monotony and suggests irregular swag drapes over the windows for decorative variation.

Little Herbert Sparks Foreign Coin Gaffe In Home Scene

A father returns home with five year old Herbert after discovering a foreign coin in his change. At the grocer the coin prompts surprise and the druggist confirms its foreign origin. Herbert then reveals the coin was the one the grocer wouldn’t take. The rest describes home decor and notices on project booklets for home making.

Herbert United States

Rates for Wyeth Spears Books in Bedford Hills NY

An order form note from Bedford Hills New York lists ten cent pricing per book and requests the customer's name and address for each of ten drawers of Wyeth Spears books.

Bedford Hills New York

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