War Aims and Production Drive Across Allied Nations
President Roosevelt and Premier Churchill create three Allied boards to pool munitions while coordinating with the Soviet Union China and 26 United Nations. Roosevelt signs price control legislation and outlines farm parity and inflation measures. U S ships planes and personnel expand in the Philippines Ireland Northern Ireland and Midway Island as war production and labour mobilization surge across the United States.
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Churchill
Soviet Union
China
United Nations
Necessa
Harry Hopkins
Munitions Board
Emory S. Land
Shipping Board
William L. Batt
Raw
Parl Harbor
Hawaii
Lean Kimmel
Walter C. Short
Early
Navy
Knox
Stimson
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Philippines
MacArthur
Bataan
Philippine
U. S
Macassar Straits
Army
United States Army
Northern Ireland
James E. Chaney
U. S. Army
United Kingdom
Atlantic
Midway Island
New Booklet Highlights Lake County Florida Living
The Lake County Chamber of Commerce released several thousand copies of a six page booklet titled A Home on a Florida Lake. It features a Lake County home scene with orange groves garden vineyard cattle poultry hogs flowers boats and a lake. The brochure promotes 20000 lake front home sites and includes a year round home garden fruit and vegetable schedule. Copies available by writing the Lake County Chamber of Commerce Court House Tavares Florida.
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Lake County
Lake County Judge Albert Herlong Jr 32nd Birthday
Albert Sydney Herlong Jr Lake County Judge will celebrate his 32nd birthday on February 14 Valentines Day. He was born in Manistee Alabama and moved to Lake County in 1920. A former Leesburg Kiwanis president civic leader Sid enjoys baseball fishing and ice cream as hobbies.
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Albert Sydney Herlong
Lake County
Judge Herlong
Manistee
Monroe County
Alabama
Leesburg
Center Hill
University of Florida
Sid
Leesburg Kiwanis Club
Farm Census of Lake County Under Way
A complete agricultural census of Lake County begins to cover every farm and its activities for 1941. F S Bliven of Clermont is the enumerator, under Nathan Mayo Florida Commissioner of Agriculture. Farmers, groves, poultrymen are urged to cooperate. data are confidential and used for statistical purposes by state and federal agencies.
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Lake County
F. S. Bliven
Clermont
Fla
Nathan Mayo
Florida
Bliven
Board of County Commissioners
R. E. Norris
Government to Issue Defense Savings Bonds to Support War Effort
The Treasury Department announced that United States Government securities bought by the American people to help defray war costs will continue to be called Defense Savings Bonds for the present.
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United States
Defense
Treasury Department
Grow A Garden in Time of War and Peace
Lake Countians show strong garden effort with a 40 percent participation rate in a county poll. The piece urges expanding gardens, plans for year round production, and efficient use of scarce fertilizer and pest controls while noting practical space limits and a community bulletin on home gardening.
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Lake County
Usda War Board
Civil Service Exam Changes For Fifth District Positions
The United States Civil Service Commission announces open competitive examinations for junior stenographer and junior typist posts in the Fifth U S Civil Service District covering Alabama to Tennessee. Stenographer dictation will run at 80 words per minute. Applications and forms available from the district offices in Atlanta or post offices within the district.
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United States
Civil Service Commission
U. S. Civil Service District
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Mississippi
South Carolina
Tennessee
New Post Office
Atlanta
Board of Civil Service Examiners
U. S
Kiwanis Frolic Our Wife at Prin ess Theatre
The Kiwanis Frolic presents Our Wife at the Prin ess Theatre this Thursday and Friday February 26th and 27th. The event promises light entertainment with local performers and a community audience turnout anticipated.
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Priness Theatre
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Biddle
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War Production
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Henderson
Department of Justice
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Perkins
Hillman
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Red Cross
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Lake mi
Naval Reserve
Karl Hunziker
Montverde
Lake County Chamber of Commerce
Mount Dora
United States Naval Reserve
Central
Shirley Temple
Westlake School For Girls
M-G-M
Kathleen
Shirley
Herbert Marshall
Laraine Day
Gail Patrick
Felix
Fowers
TMB
Alaska
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