Two Gun Patton and Vichy Figures in Africa News
Maj. Gen. George S. Patton, renowned as a two gun general, commands U.S. forces in French Morocco and Africa, with a storied WWI record and postwar armored leadership. The piece also profiles Pierre Pucheu and Flandin, Vichy officials involved with Germany and Axis collaboration, amid wartime Africa actions.
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French Morocco
United States
Educatin
Classical School
Pasadena
Calif
West Point
Hannibal
U.S.A
First Armored Corps
African Atlantic
Pershing
Mexico
Villa
Chapparal
Candelario Cervantes
Cervantes
Tank Corps
Bogais
Abbeville
Second Armored Division
Fort Oglethorpe
North Africa
Fort Lyautey
Pierre Pucheu
Hitler
Vichy
America
Africa
Vichy Gestapo
State Department
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France
Germany
Comite Des Forges
Flandin
Stavisky
Pucheu
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Gown and Jacket Pattern for Breakfastwear Set
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1700-B offers a dainty gown and jacket in batiste lawn chiffon or silk crepe with lace edging. Sizes 12 to 42 cover busts 30 to 42 inches. fabric needs 3.44 yards of 39 inch material for size 14 plus jacket and lace. Also promotes a soft cuddly doll for children as a bedtime companion.
Craftable Baby Doll Pattern From Sewing Circle
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1704-B offers complete directions for a 15 inch body doll with hair and frock. Body uses 44 yard sateen, dress 44 yard 35 or 39 inch material. Send 20 cents per pattern to Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Chicago.
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Barbara Bell
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
Chicago
Home and kitchen tips from a vintage guide
A mix of practical homemaking hints includes using maple flavored apples and cider with ham, cleaning routines for broiler racks and burners, sardine filling for toast, pie crust tips with egg white, wool washing guidance, muffin variations with coconut and fruit, and using tomato juice in vegetable gelatin salad.
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Thoy Offers Embroidered Basket Design Slips for Sale
The notice advertises replacing worn slips with new embroidered designs. Pattern 79405 priced at 15 cents, with transfer available to stamp several sets. Readers are invited to send orders to obtain the items.
It Can Be Done
A concise note states various feats possible with science and technology. It mentions passing helium through heavy quartz glass, cooking meat by short radio waves, and photographing flower fragrances through an intricate process, illustrating inventive experimentation.
Cattish Sea Poem Fragment Attribution
An early text quotes Oliver Wendell Holmes describing the sea as a catlike force that licks feet yet can crack bones and devour, wiping crimson foam from its jaws as if nothing happened.
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O. W. Holmes
Patriot colors worn by the patas monkey
The patas monkey Cerco pithecus patas found in West Africa shows a red back and legs a white stomach and a blue face.
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Cercopithecus
West Africa
Quiz Answers Revealed For Mixed History Questions
The list provides answers: boomerang native to Australia, necropolis a large cemetery, Washington lived 67 years, Joan of Arc burned in 15th century, Lake Superior covers 31,700 square miles, steel alloys number about 775000000 followed by 1968 zeros, first telephone talk New York to Chicago about fifty years ago, marathou a stork, misprision of treason, first intercollegiate football game Rutgers vs Princeton at New Brunswick on November 13 1869 with 25 players per side and Rutgers winning six to four.
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Joan of Arce
Lake Superior
New York
Chicago
United States
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Princeton
New Brunswick
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The boomerang and native tools of Australia
The list notes that the boomerang is a native Australian weapon and references a cemetery. It mentions a timespan of sixty seven years and the fifteenth. It states Lake Superior covers thirty one thousand eight hundred ten square miles. It cites an estimate by the American Steel and Iron Institute.
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Australia
Lake Superior
American Steel and Iron Institute
Licorice uses and color misconception explained
Licorice has many uses including flavoring bitter medicines and acting as a foaming agent in beer and fire extinguishing fluids. It is actually brown, not black, and a harmless carbon is added to meet the common expectation of black licorice candy.
Why Wind Flows From Cold to Warm Regions
The passage explains wind as air moving rapidly due to heating. Heated air rises and, since a vacuum cannot exist, adjacent cooler air Rushes in to replace the rising air. Thus wind results from air moving from cooler to warmer areas.
Gift ideas for servicemen this Christmas
Surveys from camps and barracks show cigarettes and smoking tobacco top gifts for soldiers in OC and blue. Camel leads cigarette sales, Prince Albert pipe tobacco is a major favorite, with Camel Christmas Carton and Holiday House four flat-fifties and Prince Albert in a pound canister, all gift packaged with space for a message.
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Prince Albert
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Temperature Changes Bullet Trajectory At 200 Yards
Colliers notes cold air slows small caliber bullets more than warm air. A bullet fired at a 200 yard target in 15 degrees below zero will strike about sixteen inches under the hole from an identically aimed shot fired in 105 degree heat.
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Collier’s
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