Palm Beach Becomes Army Town Noted for Elite Winter Scene
Palm Beach Florida, once a resort of mansions and luxury shops, now shows a heavy military presence. Soldiers and Coast Guardsmen mingle with social scenes on Ocean Drive while officers wives shop Worth Avenue. The area remains controlled, with security rules at the waterfront and army traffic dominating weekends.
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Palm Beach
Fla
Ocean Drive
Quinn
Phipps
Coast
Everglades Park
V Canteen
Florida
West Palm Beach
Grandma’s cold remedies and war era Palm Beach notes
Nostalgic survey recalls Grandma’s home remedies like Penetro and mutton suet plasters for colds. It shifts to wartime Palm Beach life with Army buildup, Navy convalescent homes, USO clubs, Coast Guard patrols, and a nightlife mix of airmen and civilians amid restricted areas and a famed gambling spot.
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Adma
County Road
Breakers Hotel
Whitehall
Bayfront
Everglades
Paris Singer
Army
Palm Beach
Frederick F. Guest
Navy
Margaret Emerson
Gloria Topping
Coast Guard
Civiian Air Patrol
Jimmy Ee William Quinn
George Kent, Jr
Wiley Reynolds
Hood Basset
Col. Bk. R. Bradley
Steady Harriman Pressures Churchill So What Moment
London profiles Averell Harriman as Americas key lend lease envoy to Britain. He guides war production, coordinates with Churchill and Stalin, and shuttles between Washington and London in a vast advisory role. He is known for a blunt quip so what and his low public profile.
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London
United States
W. Avere
Harriman
Gary Cooper
Ray Milland
Winston Churchill
Roosevelt
Britain
British-American Shipping Adjustment Board
Donald Nelson
Stalin
Russia
State Department
Atlantic
Moscow
Middle East
America
Lord Beaverbrook
Churchill
Mid-Ocean
Washington
Casablanca
J. Borden Harriman
Norway
Joseph
Lewis G
Henry J
Oliver Harriman
E. Roland Harriman
Shirley Tempie
Dancing Bear
E. H. Harriman
Averell Harriman
Groton School
Yale
Union Pacific Railroad
Poland
Union Pacific
Sun Valley
Idaho
Theodore Roosevelt
al Smith
Teddy
NRA
Edward Stettinius
WPB
OPM
William 8. Knudred
Sidney Hillman
England
Oliver Lyttelton
Lyttelton
Lord Woolton
Lord Leathers
Stafford Cripps
Harry Hopkins
Wickard
Kathleen
Bennington College
Newsweek
New York
Army Medical Corps
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Marie Harriman
Naval
N. J
Navy
Beaverbrook
General Smuts
Herbert Bayard
Long Island
Mrs. Churchill
Burton Holmes
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle
Popsie
Biddle
Ambassador
Undertaker
Gibraltar
Lord Gort
Gort
Natives of Rennell Island Live in Wall-less Shelters
About 1,000 natives on Rennell Island reside in wall-less shelters. The active rehabilitation program of American railroads has returned many freight cars to service, according to a Department of Commerce report.
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Argentina
Department of Commerce
London
South Africa
Rennell Island
You Buy With War Bonds A Ship Convoy Display
A wartime appeal describes a ship convoy leaving an American port with munitions and troops, flanked by cruisers and destroyers, while planes circle above. The piece notes months of planning, millions in costs, and urges War Bond purchases to support victory.
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America
Lemon Juice Recipe Claims Quick Rheumatic Pain Relief
An advertisement touts Ru-Ex Compound a two week supply claiming lemon juice and four lemons mixed with water relieve rheumatic arthritis or neuritis. Takes three tablespoons twice daily with potential fast improvement. refund if no relief. Sold in drug stores under money back guarantee.
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Han, Wah
Palm
Beach City
WAAC
Paul Harrison
NEA
Selves
Gloria Baker Topping
Ret Cross
Uncle Sam
Gladwin Hill
Lynn Nisbet
Raleigh
Senate Committee On
Senate
House
Clarence Poe
Eugene Brooks
Brooks
Mindanao
Philippine — Islands
Royal Air Force
Cannon
High Point
Treasury Department
Sartin Day Cleaning CO
Tassy Pee Cianome
Carter
Eckerd
Phillip
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