Navy Intelligence: Life Aboard Ships and Navy Profits
Navy sailors enjoy a wide range of sports aboard ships including football baseball basketball crew racing and sailboating. Destroyers measure 350 to 380 feet long with 15 feet draft and 36 feet beam. Speed up to 35 knots. Pay scales rise with medals and specialized ratings. Ships named for states cities heroes and aquatic animals. Fifteen Percent rule caps Ship Service profits, sometimes prompting free soda days.
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United States Navy
States
United States
Navy ships profit use and crew extra pay questioned
Free days on battleships are popular yet the 15 percent profit allowed to the Service Department is spent on athletic equipment, dances, radios, phonographs, and other crew needs. Some crew members earn extra by specialized training such as tailoring or cobbling or serving as fountain clerks or attendants.
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Uncle Sam
Service Department
U. S. Navy
Navy Reserve enlistment options for two three four years
The Navy Bureau of Navigation telegram authorizes all Navy Recruiting Stations to accept Naval Reserve enlistments for two three and four years or for minority. Enlistments require service throughout the National Emergency or wartime as applicable to all military branches.
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Navy
Bureau of Navigation
Washington, D. C
Naval Reserve
On Guard A Young Gunner and RCAF Training Plan
A Royal Canadian Air Force guard stands beside his machine as recruitment surges worldwide. The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan trains pilots observers and gunners in record numbers with about 1500 American pupils and 600 American instructors among participants from Great Britain Australia and New Zealand. The plan costs about 824.06 million dollars over three years with Canada contributing 531 million and bearing 80 percent of student costs.
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Royal Canadian Air Force
Free World
R.C.A.F
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Canada
Great Britain
Australia
New Zealand
Poisonous Purging Nut Seeds Warned By Florida Expert
Erdman West of the University of Florida warns that seeds of the ornamental purging nut Jatropha curcas are highly poisonous and violently purgative. The plant, native to tropical America, bears plum like fruits with dark seeds and many common names. He urges destruction of unused seeds and cautions children and adults to avoid ingestion.
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Tampa
Erdman West
University of Florida Agricultural Experiment Station
Florida
America
West
Defense exhibit trains tour nation stopping in Tampa and Jacksonville
Three defense exhibit trains depart Washington for a nationwide tour with stops in Tampa on December 15 and Jacksonville on December 16. Officials will assess defense manufacturing and direct suitable plants to contractors or procurement offices. Public access is restricted. invitational passes are issued by the Office of Contract Distribution OPM. Training and recruitment notes mention Naval Reserve midshipmen and officer training stations at Annapolis Chicago and New York.
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Defense
Washington
Tampa
Jacksonville
AFL
CIO
Office of Contract
OPM
Charles C. McCubbin
Defense Contract Service
Hilderbrandt
Florida
United States Naval Reserve
Naval Reserve
Naval Reserve Officers
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Stricter Enforcement Brings Hunters Arrests Across Florida
A surge in enforcement of game and fish laws in November led to many arrests. Forty three hunters were charged with violations including hunting without a license and fishing illegally, as authorities cited improper shell usage and other infractions. Additional offenses ranged from hunting in breeding grounds to trapping in closed seasons and discharging firearms on public roads.
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Con Keely Suerte Tamale Gh
Execu
State Son of Game
Tamiami Trail
National Forest
Rare new willow found in Lake County Florida
Dr W A Murrill, botanist at the State Experiment Station herbarium, identified a new willow species Salix astatulana near Astatula in Lake County. It now grows in hammock soils along streams in Lake and Levy counties and beyond, representing a botanical advance with no current commercial use.
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Florida
W. A. Murrill
State Experiment Station Herbarium
Murrill
Lake County
Astatula
Levy
Check Your Diet Today For Daily Food Needs
Guidance on daily food requirements for adults and children. It highlights monitoring family diets and suggests questioning daily intake to ensure proper nutrition. The text lists milk serves: adults one pint and children one quart per day.
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Florida
Notice of Sale on Act D Bay Area Road Tract Listings
Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund of the State of Florida announce a sale by public auction under Section 9 of Chapter 9 at the County Road right of way parcels in Lake County. The sale lists numerous lots and tracts within Tavares Leesburg Mount Dora and Eustis areas with detailed plat references and lot descriptions, to be held Monday December 12 1942 at 10 oclock A M at the courthouse. Geographical and parcel identifiers include State Highway No 100 Sec 96 Lot 28 and multiple SEY NW portions and blocks in various towns. Auctioneer and county agent: Geo J Dykes Lake County Agent.
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Bay Ares
Lake County
Florida
Internal Improvement Fund
Co Ouse
Locsmant
Iain Reel
Indian Hills
Cler
Lake Iightland Co
Lake Highlands
Pane Hi Nands. ‘Co
Sey
BEM
Swi
xWu
Nby
NE Ney
Sory
Ots Shi
Rey
SE Sey
Bae
P. Ge
Igi Cere Park
Eustis
Astatula
NW Cor
Ned Cor
Beg
D. Astatula
Hogan's
Mt. Dora
Rae
Eus
State OF
Geo
J. Dykes
Henry Leon Drugg
Herlong, Jr
Tavares
Burbank Drugg
Henry Druce
Food guide and club notices from a Florida community page
The excerpt outlines dietary guidelines for fruits vegetables whole grains and daily eggs with vitamin D from sun in Florida. It lists clubs meetings including 4 H OES Pythian Sisters Home Demonstration Club and various church and civic groups with meeting times and venues.
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National Bank
Pythian Sisters
E. Poot Chiefs Club
Mhem
Social Ice Baptist Church
Lambert
Mary Simpson
Overwiser
Community Church
Ladies Aid
Methodist Church
Woman’s Society of Christian Service
American Legion
Legion Rooms
City Hall
American Legion Auxiliary
Woman’s Club
Dek
Town Dora Sets Electric Appliance Curtailment Plan
Notice to electrical contractors and sellers that Mount Dora will discontinue installation of electric ranges and water heaters connected to town power after January 1 1942. Town cooperates with National Defense Program per OPM order P-46, aiming to curb promotional incentives for heavy appliances. By order of the Town Council December 4 1941, J B Griswold town clerk.
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Mount Dora
Federal Office of Production Management
OPM
J. B. Griswold
Also Mentioned on This Page
Navy Department
George C. Keller
Navy Intelligence
Carolyn Lee
American Honey Institute
Niagara Falls
Naval Rserves
Household Magazine
Liberty
Tne Digest
Romana
Screen
Nature
Mos
Fact Digest
Screen Guide
Christian Herald
Pathfinder
Silver Screen Sports Afield
Science & Discovery
Nat'l
Comfort-Needlecraft Farm Journal
Progressive Farmer Son
Agriculturist
Mother’s Home
Poultry Tribune
Amer. Poultry Jrnl
Breeder’s Gazette
Postoffice
John WM. Abbott
J. J. West Realty DO
Fifth Avenue
Homer Morris
Texaco Gas and Oil
Willard
Frigidaire Electrical Appliances
Paul B. Brown Co
Brown Bldg
Esther
Atwater Ave
Rie
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