World War II tales from Maidugeri and a desert sultan
An Air Transport Command tale recalls an emergency field near Maidugeri in Upper Nigeria where 18 men kept morale with a three month tour. The area became a polo hub until engine trouble rumors closed the post and the garrison returned to the Gold Coast. A second story tells of Dave Abrahams in Trucial Oman befriending Sultan Said bin Taimur over chess, earning a silver token and a Torah cylinder necklace that the sultan still wears.
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Lindy
Air Transport Command
ATC
Gold Coast
Cairo
Nea Maidugeri
Upper
Nigeria
Africa
Maidageri
Garden of Eden
Chamber-of-Commerce
Air Force
Maidugeri
Dave Abrahams
Casablanca
Matruh
Sultanate
Trucial Orman
Arabia
Dave
Sultan
United States
Trucial
Bidding of This Hand Energetic but Not Outrageous
Oswald Jacoby discusses a slam in a bridge hand where South overcalls with one spade and the play unfolds to reveal favorable distribution and an opening lead. West's ten of hearts and a sequence of ruffs and discards set up the dummy and allow the declarer to claim the rest after establishing diamonds. The article notes luck and suggests a different opening lead by West could have defeated the contract.
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South
North
Declarer
West
Oddity Almanac Woman Turns Hobby Into Business
Anne belle McIntyre of Ligonier Indiana began braiding rugs at age 82 and ten years later runs a thriving rug business at 92 she manages shopping cooking and housework independently. The piece also notes light almanac items on forest fires a weight tip equator physics a new paint for cockroaches and novelty smoking gadgets in a whimsical Almanac column.
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New York
Annebelle McIntyre
Ligonier
Ind
Almanac Conservation Department
Equator
North Pole
Asprin
Almanac
Sahara
Congress
Thalhimer Brothers, Inc
Richmond
Milady
New Coal Mining Machine Slices 200 Yard Tunnel Free of Workers
A newly developed mining machine extracts coal from a mountainside for over 200 yards without any miners underground. A U S bituminous coal miner yields in two days what a Japanese miner does in thirty.
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U. S
Poor PA Divorce Leads Fay to Send Boy to Grandma
A divorced Fay places her young son with his grandmother claiming it will ease life and help her find a new father figure for him without the child’s involvement.
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Fay
Mind Question Answers and Public Notices Summary
A newspaper item summarizes survey findings from A S News and World Report on shifting spending toward savings and life items, plus a Census Bureau compliment and notes on a proffered self help booklet. It lists pricing for a booklet on managing feelings and emotions and includes a mailed request to Dr A B Wisconsin.
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A. S. News and World Report
United States
Robert Cook
Population Authority
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Erin
Miva
A, B
Wisgam
Compass inventor Burt and Lake Superior ore finds
Compass pioneer William A. Burt, famed for the solar compass, observed iron ore deposits near Lake Superior during a surveying expedition in 1834 as iron ore caused his instrument to fluctuate sharply.
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William A. Burt
Lake Superior
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ENO Es
Sidpilerpengar
Norv
Oswald Jacoby
Oddity Almanac
Hal Boyle
Long Beach
Dsufhern
California
E. BROADWAY _ PH
Albert Edward Wiggads
AOS
Gladys Parker
Tsee
AONE
Aisat
Ancient Age Distilling Company
Kentucky
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