Marine air crew grease monkeys keep planes aloft at Chicago center
At the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Chicago marines price true ground crew skill behind every mission. Marines study 21 weeks of mechanics, sheet metal, welding, and tools, then undergo accelerated calisthenics. Top graduates earn corporal, others advance, gaining a trade for life after the war.
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United States Marine Corps
Naval Air Technical Training Center
Chicago
Maj
Joe Foss
Carlton Hill
USMC
Marine Aviation
Aviation Metalsmith
Red Cross Unveils Refrigerated Blood Container
The Red Cross aims to collect four million blood donations this year with 36 blood banks operating nationwide. Maj. Elihu Church invents a refrigerated container that keeps temperature variation under two degrees, allowing wide geographic collection and transport to laboratories for plasma production. The use of plasma has cut mortality from abdominal wounds from 80 to 5 percent and overall wound deaths from 7 to under 1 percent.
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Red Cross
Maj
Elihu Church
Ration Party Games For Family Entertains Guests
A Western Newspaper Union release suggests ration themed party games for families. Activities include a Who Am I variant with rationed item names, a two cast shortage skit, and Ration Geography listing world sources of common shortages. Also a Ration Songs segment invites song titles about shortages.
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South America
East Indies
Japan
India
Australia
Germany
Russia
Western
Union
Emergence of United Seamen's Service For Merchants Marines
Shortly after Pearl Harbor the USO expanded for combat troops while merchants marines lacked a dedicated service. In September 1942 maritime unions pressed to fill this gap, leading to the formation of the United Seamen's Service USS to aid merchant seamen and their welfare.
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Pearl Harbor
USO
Maritime
United Seamen's Service
USS
Ini
Makeup Tips and U S S Efforts Support Merchant Seamen
Minute Make Ups By Gabrielle offer fingertip styling tips for hands and ring fashion. The piece praises USS and WSA efforts aiding merchant seamen including health clinics rest homes hotels and clubs abroad and at home. It notes 5000 mariners repatriated and promises expansion to support a growing merchant fleet.
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Ledger Syndicate
WNU
WSA
USS
Broadway
New York
N. Y
U. S
Army
Navy
Red Cross
State Department
Army and Navy
Western Newspaper Union
Entertaining Before a Fall Wedding
Advice for hosting a fiancé before the wedding season. If the engagement is public, you may host at any time. Keep a date arranged before you leave, preferably early the week prior to the wedding, or consider a luncheon at a club or nearby venue if your home isn’t ready.
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Ledger Syndicate
WNU
Soldier Form Streamlines Dependents Allowance Process
A form issued at induction centers simplifies providing allowances to dependents. The War Department’s Dependency Benefits Office now administers about three million family allowances for the army.
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War Department Office of
Army
Leftover Meat Pies and Salad Propose Low Point Meals
Lynn Chambers offers ideas to stretch leftovers into meals with meat pies using roast scraps, vegetables, and gravy. The column presents Bologna Spaghetti, Broiled Liver Sausage with tomatoes, and Frankfurters with Potato Salad, plus Green Lima and Bacon Salad. It ends with Apricot Whip dessert and a note to write to Miss Chambers for replies.
Lynn Says Tips on Keeping Cool
Tips focus on staying cool through planning dressing and eating choices. Advocates dressing sensibly packing summer clothes and using quick clean options. Recommends crispy salads frosty drinks and doing hot kitchen work in cool morning hours. Store prepped foods in fridge to reduce rush and heat. Keep things simple to stay cool.
Captain Towns Leaps Over Jeep in North Africa Practice
The world class hurdler Capt. Forrest Towns of Athens Georgia shows his form by leaping over a jeep in North Africa. Towns, holder of the 110 meter high hurdles world record, is training for a Berlin visit after having set Olympic marks in 1936.
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Berlin
Capt
Forrest Towns
Athens
North
Africa
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Air Aces
Abbie Condit
United Seamen’s Service
Gabrielle
Telefact
Tunisia
North Africa
Algeria
Phyllis Belmont
Lynn Chambers
Bologna
South Desplaines Street
Ill
Lynn
Feathers
OLL
NEW
Ship Express
Writa Pillow Mfg. CO
Cole Street
St. Louis
W. E. Jenkins
Macon
Georgia
Army of Photographers
Yodora
McKesson & Robbins, Inc
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Doan
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