School For Skymaids At Tuscaloosa Trains Women Pilots
A Tuscaloosa air school trains only women, offering a 12 week program with 42 flight hours and 165 classroom hours plus 60 hours of physical training. The Alabama Institute of Aeronautics operates on a college model with dorms, campus bank, rules on dress, and a focus on personal flight and aeronautics knowledge for postwar women.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
Alabama Institute of Aeronautics
Walter P. Thorpe
Allied advance eyes Holland and North Sea ports
Western front holds steady as Allied forces press toward Holland and the North Sea coast. British and Canadian troops aim to clear Rotterdam and Amsterdam while trapping German forces retreating from Holland. Liberation will take time amid German attempts to flood and starve Dutch regions and deny port access.
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Germany
Fisenhower
Holland
Reich
North Sea
Emden
Bremen
Hamburg
Boche
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
Ems
Lorient
St. Nazare
Normandy
Deventer
Hitlerites
Ams
London
England
Quick-Acting Headache Powder Announces Relief Claim
Ad promotes a headache powder formula that claims instant relief for headaches and nervous tension from minor indispositions. Mentions a 10¢ or smaller size and urges physician consultation if pains persist.
Costa Rica Extends Food Aid For 3 1 2 Years
In San Jose Minister Jose Joaquin Peralta announced that the food division of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs will continue operations in Costa Rica for three and a half years. The division has managed several food production and distribution projects since October 1942 and has been valuable to Costa Rican agriculture. the contract with the Inter-American agency would have expired this year.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
Jose Joaquin Peralta
Institute of Inter-American Affairs
Coordinator of Inter- American Affairs
Ofod
1Rth American
Dorothy McFarland Attended School Here
Miss Dorothy McFarland of High Point North Carolina linked to Eugene Jarrett’s book store in Hal Boyle's Riviera column. She worked at the American Red Cross hotel in France and later as a Red Cross hostess at Fort Bragg Riverside mill before Pearl Harbor. She trained in New York in 1942 for overseas duty.
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Dorothy McFarland
Hal Boyle
Eugene A Jarrett
Tn Boyle
Riviera
France
High Point
N. C
American Red Cross
Miss McFarland
South Carolina
Red Cross
Fort Bragg
Riverside
New York
Postal Receipts Show Monthly and Quarterly Increases
Assistant Postmaster J. C. Payne reports March and first quarter gains over 1943. Quarter receipts rose to 82,679.55 from 71,643.86, a year over year increase of 5,532.24, with March totals up from 24,071.48 to 29,603.72.
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J. C. Payne
Payne
National Maritime Day Set For May 22
President Roosevelt urged observance of May 22 as National Maritime Day to commemorate the Savannah voyage in 1819. The note ties the day to the first successful steam powered trans Atlantic crossing.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Savannah
War touches all lives and demands engagement now
Elsie Robinson argues war forces every person to choose involvement over indifference. No life is normal during conflict and avoiding the issue harms the spirit as much as the horror itself.
Half of Nazis' V-1 Bombs Fall Short Front Dispatch Report
London dispatches say 50 percent of V-1 flying bombs aimed at London and continental targets fell short near launch sites due to mechanical defects. Canadian troops captured a V-bomb base at Huize Zelle in northeastern Holland where Germans boasted of future launches on America from Japan and the Netherlands.
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London
Western Front
Huize Zelle
Holland
America
Japan
Netherlands
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