Britain’s Airfields as One Great Edge of Occupied Europe
Britain has converted itself into one vast airfield to support the Allied air offensive against German-held Europe. The scale involves vast bases, fleets of aircraft, and massive engineering, organizational, and financial efforts to house the expanding air armada. Malta once called an unsinkable carrier is noted alongside Britain’s achievements in sustaining daily air operations.
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MME
Europe
Britain
Malta
Britain’s wartime airfields loom large in scale
The article notes vast wartime airfield construction in Britain with 160 million square yards of paving and 30 million tons of ballast, plus 16 million cables and 9,600 switchboards. It cites 1942 spending at one sixth of peacetime national budget and mentions lend-lease reversed U S air force facilities built by Britain, amid scarce land and peatland challenges.
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Britain
United States Army Air Force
Price Control And Rationing Information
Consumers should turn in old metal tubes for tin recovery though new tubes exist. Do not discard No 3 ration book yet to keep canning sugar eligibility. Coca Cola cartons are prohibited in manufacture. price remains unchanged. Lose ration book should contact Local Ration Board. When a son enters service, surrender his ration book to army authorities. Request pamphlet Consumers News or the Blue Book via Wartime Prices and Trade Board office with newspaper name.
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Ihnas
Wartime Prices and Trade Board
Consumers’ News
Prices and Trade Board
Kellogg's All-Bran Eases Constipation Naturally
A consumer touts relief from constipation after two weeks on Kellogg's All-Bran. The ad explains the bulk forming cereal aids natural elimination and suggests daily servings with milk or muffins, plus ample water. It urges readers to buy Kellogg's All-Bran in two sizes at local grocers.
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Tam
Kellogg's
Vanquished South African Leader Hopes Peaceful Existence
Prime Arnster Van Waristian Smuts expressed hope that peace could avoid repeating past mistakes and allow the vanquished to meet basic needs. He opposed granting colonies to Germany. Bentonite plastic clay used in oil refineries absorbs seven times its weight in water.
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Arnster van Waristian Smuts
South Africa
Germany
Weed Prevention for Farm Crops Warns Against Weeds
Herbert Groh of the Dominion Department of Agriculture urges clean seed and well drained fields for early cultivation. He notes crop diversity and rotation lessen weed maturity and reduce hoeing, with after harvest tillage and spring prep cutting summer fallow needs.
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Herbert Groh
Division of Botany
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Postwar agriculture to see farm factories and vertical diversification
Dr Howard Doane of St Louis predicts in Farm Journal that farmers will become industrialists producing raw materials for processing plants. He envisions fixed and mobile rural facilities that dehydrate concentrate refrigerate and fabricate crops. The plan favors bulky watery or perishable goods and may use on farm co operatives private firms or rural city branches.
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Howard Doane
St. Louis
Farm Journal
Scientific Am
Polish Refugees Find Haven in Uganda as War Ends
Five thousand seven hundred fifty Polish refugees have found refuge in Uganda British East Africa. Most are women and children now self supporting through farming. It is six minutes by bomber from Dover to Calais the nearest port of occupied France.
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Uganda
British East Africa
Dover
England
Calais
France
Britain Receives 38 US Escort Carriers Under Lend-Lease
Navy Secretary Frank Knox announced that 38 escort aircraft carriers built in the United States have been delivered to Great Britain under Lend-Lease. The carriers, about 10 000 tons each, strengthen the Allied anti-submarine fleet while 50 remain in operation with the U S Fleet.
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Britain
Navy
Frank Knox
United States
Great Britain
Knox
Atlantic
Humorous Sketches From A Morning Musicale
A collage of brief gags features a hurried young woman asking about The Ninth Symphony, soldiers trading barbed quips, a barber joke after a long hike, and light banter about hats, debts, and a doll dress. The bits showcase punchy one liners and social quips in a quick comic sequence.
Route To Russia Molotov Seeks Chicago Moscow Link
Vice President Henry A. Wallace quotes Vyacheslav Molotoff the Soviet foreign minister as hoping for a combined highway and airway linking Chicago to Moscow via Canada Alaska and Siberia. The idea surfaced in 1942 during Molotoff’s Africa visit when Wallace raised the question.
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Molotov
Chicago
Moscow
Canada
Henry A. Wallace
Vyacheslav Molotoff
Alaska
Siberia
Wallace
Molotoff
United States
Africa
Eczema Treatments and Skin Troubles Noted in Ad Copy
An advertisement fragment mentions eczema and skin troubles with uncertain claims about relief. It references names and terms like Moore, Emerald, and money back, but details are unclear and the overall intent is promotional.
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Moore
Britons Broadcasting for Germany to face British trial
Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee told Parliament that broadcasters allied with Germany such as Lord Haw Haw will not be labeled war criminals. They will be charged under British law and tried in an appropriate British court.
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Lord Haw Haw
Germany
Clement R. Attlee
Commons
Maj
Ernest Lloyd
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