Wartime Trailer City Houses 13,000 Naval Workers at Portsmouth
The FPHA built 3,300 mobile homes in 46 days near Portsmouth Virginia to house 13,000 naval workers, delivering fully furnished units by assembly line. Rentals run 6 to 9 dollars weekly with schools, playgrounds, a church, and stores onsite, a model for postwar housing and wartime mobility.
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Portsmouth
Navy
Norfolk Navy Yard
Federal
Public Housing Authority
FPHA
Holse
Tomato Aspic Surprise for Cool Summer Servings
Cool elegant dish on a green salad plate features tomato aspic with cottage cheese, ham salad sandwich loaf, deviled eggs and potato salad. The loaf wrapped in aspic serves 12 to 15, garnished with watercress for summer entertaining while ration points stay in check.
Lynn Chambers Point Saving Menus and Tomato Cottage Dishes
A collection of Lynn Chambers recipes and tips including Tomato Aspic Surprise Apricot Pie and a Tulip Sandwich Loaf serving 12 to 15. Also featured Walnut Stuffed Tomatoes Lima Bean Supper Salad and Hot Tomato Cottage Cheese Sandwich with practical meal guidance and contact for help via Western Newspaper Union Chicago.
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Lynn Chambers
Western Newspaper Union
South Desplaines Street
Chicago
Ilinois
Portable units boost mobility of Trailer City facilities
Portable laundries and washrooms at Trailer City in Portsmouth Virginia show expandable units that move with trailers to provide extra rooms on foundation blocks. The expansible design, made by the same manufacturer, is used in duplex mobile houses and larger community structures such as hospitals auditoriums nurseries churches and theaters.
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Norfolk Navy Yard
Portsmouth
Navy
George F. Miles
Trailer Coach Manufacturers Association
Europe
Trailer City
Virginia
Willow Run
Detroit
Lynn Says A Heart of Gold Egg Appetizer Ideas
The note praises eggs as a good protein and offers stuffing ideas. It suggests halved hard cooked eggs filled with mashed yolks and fillings, garnished with paprika and parsley, plus variations with celery, Thousand Island, peas, bacon, cream, vinegar, onion juice, pepper, salt, and mayonnaise. Leftover ham can be mixed with mayo to refill the whites.
Riddle Answer Tied to Welsh Collection
Berkeley puzzle notes February as the month with the fewest days. In Chisholm Minnesota, the Eberts and Phillips families describe three marriages linking Albert Ebert and Evelyn Phillips, marking a pattern of cross-family unions.
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Berkeley
Calif
University of California Press
Thirteen Marks a Soldier’s Milestone for Bombardier
MEMPHIS. Sergeant James F. Gates Jr. born May 13, 1917, served in two Solomon Islands battles on the 13th and faced shellfire at Guadacanal on the 13th. He completed a long air sea bombardment mission on the 13th and returned home March 13 after three years seven months and 13 days away, with his mother hosting a luncheon for 13 guests.
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Memphis
James F. Gates Jr
Army Air Forces
Solomons
Guadacanal
Diamonds Buried by Wounded Pilot Spark Theft Case
In Melbourne three men are held over an $80,000 diamond theft linked to a cache worth over $1.5 million buried by a Dutch pilot after his plane was shot down near Carnot Bay in northern Australia. Agents say Palmer, Mulgrue, and Robinson face charges of stealing or receiving gems tied to the wrecked flight.
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Melbourne
Java
Australia
Aneta
Netherlands
John Palmer
James A. Mulgrue
Frank A. Robinson
Ivan Smirnoff
Royal Dutch Airlines
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Broome
Carnot Bay
Smirnoff
Palmer
Perth
Malgrue
Robinson
New Electron Microscope Reveals Smoke Particles
London reports a new electron microscope capable of breaking smoke into distinguishable particles. Designed by Prof L O Martin of Imperial College in collaboration with Metropolitan Vickers Electrical, the device uses electron beams and electrostatic magnetic lenses. The image can be shown on a fluorescent screen or photographed.
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London
L. O. Martin
Imperial College of Science
Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company
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