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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1940
Page
8
U S Navy trucks with American flags travel Burma Road, aiding supply lines in the far east. Vessels like the Tuteilt protect Americans in Chungking, while the trucks handle two key tasks along the down trail to Rangoon, Burma.
Readable sections describe American glove fashion with new styles and novelties for holiday gifts. Highlights include suede and leather varieties, heat straps, buttoned openings, unique cuts, and decorative accents like jewels, embroidery, and color contrasts.
A study of repeal era statistics notes that alcohol consumption rose after Prohibition and that deaths related to alcoholism fluctuated. The article cites census figures from 1909 to 1938, reports on liquor, wine, and beer consumption, and discusses biases in cause-of-death data and personal crisis reports.
London reports sketch out responses to pilot blackout during dives as speeds rise. RAF and Luftwaffe test diets and dive indicators while engineers seek a fundamental fix before the war ends. The piece notes makeshift measures and ongoing research to prevent loss of consciousness in high speed aerial attacks.
A fragmentary report identifies Otto Abetz as German ambassador to occupied France who met in Vichy to protest Valys dismissal and notes his pacifist origins and rise under Ribbentrop. It cites Abetz as head of a Nazi espionage network uncovered by Edouard Daladier and his 1939 expulsion from France.
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