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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1943
Page
2
In a home front feature Beth Spears describes converting a plain washstand into a streamlined piece using open shelves, a plywood top, and a baseboard. Finish with matching paint, fill screw holes, and refinish an old frame with chintz to resemble an oil painting. Book 10 offers more projects from available materials, booklet price 15 cents.
A single torpedo fired from an airplane is among the deadliest weapons and the most complex to produce. It comprises about 5,000 parts in over a thousand assemblies and costs as much as a dozen medium priced cars.
Veterans of the 42nd Division, World War I, gather in Tulsa and Camp Gruber to witness the reactivation of the Rainbow Division for World War II. They send messages to General MacArthur and General Gouraud, recounting its famed La Croix Rouge Farm and Meuse-Argonne battles, and recall the division’s crest and symbolism.
The piece explains the New York Cotton Exchange operations open outcry trading on the ring floor with 450 members, telegraph and telephone links, and rapid price dissemination. It highlights the role of the exchange in pricing, risk transfer, and its 72 year history, plus wartime staffing shifts and notable leaders.
Alongside Gen Douglas MacArthur the Rainbow division drew many future stars including Col William J Donovan Brig Gen Charles P Summerall Father James P Duffy and Sgt Joyce Kilmer. The unit list spans infantry brigades artillery battalions engineers trains and medical units reflecting the division structure. Freedom fighters and poets aside the 42nd division comprised 83rd and 84th infantry brigades with multiple machine gun battalions and field artillery units.
In Reedport Oregon Mrs George Taylor laments her eight year old son would come home hungry from school. He explains that he spends 15 cents at the cafeteria and buys a 10 cent war stamp each day, claiming he is getting his money’s worth.
contumacious means stubborn or rebellious. The Suez Canal has three locks. The flag flown above the Stars and Stripes is the U.S. flag flown with military or government guidance. Makepeace was the middle name of Charles Dickens. Paris mortally wounds Achilles in the heel. Hedonism is the pursuit of pleasure as a life goal. Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba. A majority of U.S. presidents have been lawyers. Lawrence of Arabia was Thomas Edward Lawrence. Regular air mail service began in 1918.
The list identifies expected answers to questions including rebellious, Suez Canal facts at sea level, the church pennant, William Makepeace Thackeray, the heel, the hedonistic doctrine, Columbus, lawyers, T. E. Lawrence as Shaw, and a 1918 New York to Washington context.
Six weeks to paint a carriage and an hour for car finishes give way to rapid drying. Latest furniture finishes dry in ten minutes and now army war tanks use infra-red rays to cure paint in four minutes.
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