Belgian Dutch Children Run Sugar Tax On American Troops
Leaves From Notebook Of A Correspondent HAL OYLE recalls a prank culture among Belgian and Dutch children who trap American soldiers with sweets cigarettes and wine. A seven year old girl offers tomatoes a boy offers apples and a girl pours wine provoking a crowd of children to raid pockets and gear. The scheme unfolds with playful hostility as troops struggle to resist the candy tax.
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Hal
St. Louis
Fragmentary reminiscences mix with wartime notes and social items
A rough fragmentary clipping mentions a youth, a prisoner of Germany, and a later note of his injury and recovery. It records social visits in Baltimore and Philadelphia, a mild scarlet fever case in the Baker Selby family, and references to candy, cigarettes, and a hoverboard era mood.
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Mungars
Tieeharee J Quinn
Annie
Eller Quinn
Edward Barclay
Baltimore
J. P. Kerr
Robert Williams
Philadelphia
Redskins
Phila
Birthday and visits noted in Boyds and Damascus
Mrs Nina Heck and daughter Mrs Clay Neal returned to Balty More on October 2 after visiting Rev and Mrs James Kerr. A birthday celebration October 1 at Norman Bellison home Damascus honored Mrs James Buren of Lickerson. Attendees included Margie and Evelyn Virts, Nicholson and families, and Rodney Heathner with Mary Akinson. Ladies Aid plans an October 21 oyster and ham supper. Lloyd Sandbower’s first letter from corps arrives.
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Judy
Richard Nicholson
Melvin Nicholson
Bonnie
Travilah
Rodney Heathner
Mary Akinson
Washington
Edward Lewis
Clarence Ayton
Gaithersburg
J. T. Nicholson
Ladies' Aid Society
Monte Sandbower
Corps
Lloyd Sandbower
Enough Vitamin A Made For Everybody
A wartime molecular distillation method yields enough vitamin A to supply every person worldwide from a single small plant. Distillation Products Inc. is jointly owned by Kodak and General Mills and uses fast two second stills to boil liquids across a wide temperature range. The Rochester Chemical Engineers Society heard Dr Kenneth C. Hickman of Eastman Kodak report the breakthrough.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Asociated Press
Rochester, N. Y
Rochester Chemical Engineers Society
Kenneth C. D. Hickman
Eastman Kodak Company
Distillation Products, Inc
Kodak
Generalills
Vacuum science yields concentrated vitamins from seawater
In a vacuum the squid-like water molecules eject through the water surface and elsewhere. The Rochester process freezes molecules on a cold plate in vacuum forming a golden oil rich in vitamins A D and E. The Vita mins company is a major producer of these vitamins.
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Shark Hiver Oy
Figures For Next State Budget Being Prepared in Maryland
Maryland budget makers begin drawing up the next biennial figures with aims to avoid new taxes and minimize longrange uncertainties. Governor Canoe plans a near balance and may call a special session to adjust revenue and expenditure as war costs rise and equipment needs grow. Washington reports seizure of a German weather station in Greenland with several personnel captured and the Wehrmacht's data assets compromised.
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Canoe
Furtther
Oheney
No Recommendation On Wage Formula Change
The War Labor Board adopted a proposal by its public members that Water’s wage changes breaching the Little Steel formula be sent to President Roosevelt without recommendation. The AFL petition to modify the wage formula was voted down eight to four, with labor dissenting. The public members’ proposal aimed at wage matters in general, not excusing the Little Steel formula.
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