War Department expands language guides for soldiers
Six more language booklets join the series used by American troops including Russian Greek Japanese German Chinese French Italian and North African Arabic. They teach basic phrases with phonetic spellings and eye ear training to aid simple conversation.
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Mexico
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Nation's Camp Fire Girls Aid War Effort Nationwide
Camp Fire Girls join war effort through council fires and community events during March honoring their activities. Members 7 to 18 years old produce ceiling price booklets, serve as hospital aides, and offer child care and homemaking skills for service families and servicemen.
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WAVES
SPARS
Marine Corps Women’s Reserve
Camp Fire
OPA
Gay Gadgets for Room Decor on a Budget
A playful column offers cheap DIY ideas to decorate a bedroom. Suggestions include repurposing a wooden box as a wall shelf, creating a bulletin board from wall board, turning a paper basket into a magazine collage piece, and making a trinket box from matching kitchen boxes. It ends with light GI jokes aimed at teens.
Douglas Dauntless Pulls Out After Bomb Release Photo
A Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber is pictured mid pullout after releasing its bomb over a target. The dramatic frame captures the moment of ascent with the aircraft's wings angled and smoke trailing behind.
Last of Warsaw Jews Interned Reported by Polish Telegraph
The Polish Telegraph Agency says 25 000 Jews from Warsaw were sent to Buchenwald near Hanover, leaving 15 000 in the capital. Before the war Warsaw's Jewish population was about 300 000, a third of the city’s people.
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Warsaw
New York
Bernebostel
Hanover
Warsaw Ghetto
Dentist hooks tooth from fish during fishing trip
In Des Moines Iowa Dr T G Wheeler, a dentist, tried fishing but reeled in a fish with a tooth still embedded on the hook. The tale notes the dental extraction foiled by a lucky catch.
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Des Moines
Iowa
T. G. Wheeler
Japan Control of Quinine Met by Experimenters
Malaria battles in New Guinea and Guadalcanal hinge on quinine and mosquito control. Quest to restore supply faces Japanese disruptions to East Indian sources, with U S efforts testing experimental plantings in Central America to yield substantial quinine soon.
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New Guinea
Guadalcanal
United States
Middle America
How to Handle a Sulking Child
A child who sulks when spoken to is not admired and is ignored by peers. Parents should be firm but not cranky, punish wrongdoing and stick to punishments. Do not relent out of pity. instead set a good example with a sunny disposition. Ledger Syndicate. WNU Features.
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Ledger Syndicate
WNU
Small Firms Boost War Effort With Adapted Production
A Remington Arms study highlights how small manufacturers expanded to support war needs. Frank Ryder in Cobleskill, C W Woolworth in Lititz, Arthur H. DuGrenier, and Frank H. Lee retooled plants for ammunition packing, armor piercing cores, tool making, and vendings machines. Lee’s hats became a tool factory. Leaders say the drive is not for profit but to hasten peace through usable capabilities.
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Remington Arms Company
Frank Ryder
Cobleskill
N.Y
Remington
C. W. Woolworth
Lititz
Woolworth
Herman Drach
Arthur H. DuGrenier
Frank H. Lee
Minute Make-Ups By Gabrielle
Skin care tips describe a soap emulsion wash followed by rinsing with cool and cold water. After drying gently, apply cream lotion then powder with liquid and face powders. Result is clean cool skin for hours.
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Gabrielle
Ledger Syndicate
WNU
Miss Betty Smith Enlists for Foreign Service with Red Cross
Betty Smith, whose father fought in World War I and whose brother serves in the U S medical corps in New Guinea, joins the American Red Cross abroad. She stands with her mother Mrs Lawrence Smith, president of the American Legion Auxiliary, while her father is identified as a Wisconsin congressman.
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U. S. Medical Corps
New Guinea
Betty Smith
American Red Cross
Lawrence Smith
American Legion Auxiliary
Smith
Congress
Wisconsin
Quality of Baby Pants Draws Flood of Kicks
Washington report shows the Office of Civilian Requirements receiving complaints about wartime baby pants. OCR survey director Austin Grimshaw notes that about 70 percent of the national survey complaints target the pants material used as a substitute for rubber.
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Washington
Office of Civilian Requirements
Austin Grimshaw
OCR
Curtain fashions from the past to modern home sewing
A Ruth Wyeth Spears feature on eighteenth century cabinet makers and period curtain styles. It notes Venetian blinds, canvas lined valances, and how valances were attached, with a pointer to Book 5 in a sewing series and a 15 cent copy request.
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Williamsburg
Powdery efflorescence on basement concrete floor
Reader asks about white powdery substance seeping from cement. Expert identifies efflorescence from damp concrete and mineral salts, suggests reducing dampness, scrubbing with a wire brush, and applying two coats of zinc sulfate solution after testing on a small area.
Marble walls and tile entrance floor care guide
Cleaning advice for marble vestibule walls and tile floors uses neutral soaps or fine scouring powder. For badly damaged marble, consult a marble specialist. request a care booklet by mailing 15 cents to the Marble and Stone Institute, New York.
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Marble and Stone Institute
East Forty-first Street
New York
International lawyers as elite practitioners questioned
The text argues that international law is highly unprofitable and that only a minority of attorneys worldwide—likely fewer than 75—are truly versed enough to be considered expert in the field.
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International Lawyers International Law
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