Forest Fire War Weapons Turn Paratroops Into Firefighters
The piece outlines postwar plans to use parachute troops, jeeps, half tracks, flamethrowers, and aerial bombers to combat forest fires. It discusses paratrooper drops near fires, mobile pumps, backfires, bulldozers, and coordinated radio communications as a comprehensive peacetime firefighting strategy.
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Mars
David Godwin
Forest Service
Godwin
New Guinea
Africa
Italy
Chemical Warfare Service
America
Mail Delivery To Navy Fleet On Land Or Sea
Navy postal service details mail delivery to mobile fleet units in the Pacific. March 1945 saw 86,132,623 letter pieces routed from Fleet Post Office San Francisco to Navy Marine and Coast Guard personnel, more than double the 1944 figure. Tips for safe parcels include strong containers, shredded filler, interior content list, full addresses, and direct inked addresses on wrapping.
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Fleet Post Office
San Francisco
Navy, Marine and
Coast Guard
Pacific
Navy Mail Service
Navy Department
Washington, D. C
Fleet Post
Navy
United States
Marine Corps
INTERNATIONAL FINANCE AFTER THE WAR
Western Newspaper Union presents Wright A Patterson on postwar finance and the shift from debtor to creditor nations. He argues Europe must produce its own cotton and food, notes Britain France and other powers now rely on home production, and warns the US must master collection and market protection to avoid repeating WWI outcomes. He also reflects on Old Glory as a guiding symbol and considers postwar Russia's role in achieving a durable peace.
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Andrew Tardieu
Paris
America
France
England
Germany
Holland
Belgium
Canada
Australia
United States
Europe
Japan
Russia
Marshall Stalin
Goop Bombs in Japan Remain Unstopped Firestorm Threat
Inside story outlines the B 29 and a goop bomb as major combat tools in burning Japan. Goop bomb uses oily glue like contents and magnesium sparks to produce the hottest fires, defying firefighting efforts and aiding rapid area confinement.
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Japan
Washington
Poetic Justice and Mocking Echoes in Wartime Gossip
Witty dispatches recount Allied quips on Goering and Dimitroff, Lord Haw Haw, and British donkey-cart jokes about Berlin. A Russian delegate debates China unity and Chiang Kai-shek sketches ancient vs new moons while Davies cools amid Churchill talks.
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Goering
Georgi Dimitroff
Dimitroff
Meyer’ Goering
Ralph Berendt
New York City
Host of Small Fires Do More Damage Than the Great Ones
A forest fire can sweep wide and fast, yet smaller fires cause far more total damage. Public causes account for about 98 percent of fires, with arson as a major second. About 61,000 firefighters work nationwide to combat blazes, yet forests lose up to 800 million cubic feet of timber yearly.
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Forest Service
Federal Land Administrative Agencies
Lincoln on Criticism and Duty in Public Office
From a long painful experience Lincoln advised that criticism must not derail service. He pledged to do the best he can and persist to the end, noting outcomes do not validate or defeat his efforts and that truth will endure beyond attacks.
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Abraham Lincoln
Mustache Comparison Reveals Comic Misunderstanding
A subway passenger stared at another man and explained the gaze was from envy of a moustache like his wife. The seated man denied having a moustache, prompting the strap-hanger to reveal his wife indeed has one.
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Tommies
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Navy P. O
Wright A. Patterson
Western Newspaper Union
Old Glory
WU. S
Henry Kaiser
Kaiser
Franklin
New York
Panama Canal
Canal
OPA
Leon Henderson
Henderson
South Africa
Jan Christian Smuts
Jan Masaryk
Czechoslovakia
Glenn Taylor
Idaho
Secret Service
Eisenhower
Cernay
House
Military Affairs Committee
Stettinius
Ieee
China
Chiang
Chungking
Lord Haw Haw
Bronx
Lord Hee-Haw
Tommy
Britain
Downing Street
Winnie
Berlin
Joe Davies
Churchill
London-Washington
Capitol
Davies
Joe
Himmler
Tokyo
FCC
Mikadomei
Joe Stalin
Graybeard
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