Desert Pursuit in Lifesaving Sandstorm
Storey, Annette, and Mohammed flee Lebeau and Ismeddin across a moonless desert after freeing Capt. Lebeau. A sandstorm blurs the trail of Andre Ribott’s sheep as they race toward Bir Mazoul with Kahiri pursuers closing in.
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Lee
Storey
Mohammed
Mohammed Ibn Mulal
Lebeau
Annette
Capt
Monsieur
Jack Storey
Annette Fournier
French Africa
Ismeddin
Andre Ribett
Monsieur Storey
Ribett
Andre Ribott
United States
Mademoiselle
Ribott
Touggourt
Monsieur Jacques
Mohammed Ibn Mulai
Sitt
Sidi
Tripolitania
Ain Saffa
Libya
Crossword Puzzle No 4814
Readable clues indicate a themed crossword with numbered across and down entries including languages and objects. The puzzle lists many standard terms such as lairs independencies hawaiian and scales, with several color and animal references across a dense grid.
Plan Has Worked Subsidies Paid To Protect Prices Ceiling
The Ottawa Journal notes subsidies totaling 50 million dollars paid under Canada’s price ceiling from March last year to now. It argues the ceiling prevented larger cost of living jumps, estimating every one point rise costs about 30 million to consumers and that without the ceiling prices could have reached 120 to 300 million for 4 to 10 point increases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Commons
Prices Board
Canada
The
Ottawa Journal
Sign Calls 50 Women for Cat Skinners
United States employment service issues call for fifty women to work as cat skinners, a term later clarified as construction gang slang for tractor operators. The notice stresses job availability and the explanatory note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Employment Service
No Place In Society Crime in London as English record low in 1940s
The Detroit Free Press notes London had 39 murders and 12 armed robberies last year with 150 violent robberies for 8 million residents, all down from the previous year. English disapproval of crime contrasted with American views as wartime strain pressed society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Detroit Free Press
Life Begins At 40 Promises Middle-Age Success
An advertisement promoting a 32 page booklet arguing middle age is a new start. It cites Walter B. Pitkin and examples from Beethoven Michelangelo and Goya, urging readers over 40 to learn from the book and send 15 cents to Winnipeg Newspaper Union for a copy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter B. Pitkin
J. A. Britton
American Medical Association
Beethoven
Michelangelo
Goya
Pitkin
Whitlesey House
Home Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Prophecy by Bacon on machines that drive ships and fly
Emerson quotes Roger Bacon predicting rapid ships guided by a pilot and winged machines for air travel. He suggests carriages could move quickly without animals and flying machines renewed by wings could enable flight like birds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger Bacon
Emerson
War Savings push and polar note move in news
A wartime finance slogan pledges that every dollar saved on War Savings certificates weakens the enemy and shortens the war. An odd aside notes the North Pole apparently drifting south at about six inches per year.
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North Pole
Smile Awhile Jokes and Witty Exchanges
A compendium of humorous exchanges and quips about love, doctors, actors, and daily life. The bits feature a novice entertainer dodging a bow, a dusting maid apologizing, a doctor patient banter, and a young boy asking about statesmanship.
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Eno
Mariette Burrows
Holland
Celly
Bear
Mosiem
Independencies
Ens Ogilvie
Ogilvie Flour Mills
Uh Thea
Vicks VapoRub
Toronto
British Columbia
Phoenix
Home Service
Dolly
Molly
Green
Angus
Sci
Lydia E. Pinkham
Steess
Sewo
Ional Rterfl Ie
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