Half Million Citizens to Aid Army Air Corps Defense
Washington D C 500000 civilians enroll as volunteer observers for the army air corps under Lt Gen Delos C Emmons, forming a nationwide civilian force to watch for enemy aircraft from rooftops and churches. The program links with interceptor commands across four air forces, coordinating warning, communications, and a postattack counter blow system.
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Union
Washington, D. C
U. S
Army Air Corps
Delos C. Emmons
General Headquarters Air Force
Bolling Field
D. C
War Department
Paul Reveres
Minutemen
Minutewomen
Iowa
New Jersey
American Legion
CCC
Coast Guard
New York-New England
James E. Chaney
First
Air Force
Army
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
John C. McDonnell
First Air Force
Mitchelfield
Long Island
N. Y
Carlyle H. Wash
Second Air Force
Fort George Wright
Washington
Walter H. Frank
Third Air Force
Tampa
Fla
Millard F. Harmon
Fourth Air Force
Riverside
California
Northeast Air District
Northwest Air District
Southeast Air District
Southwest Air District
Air Defense Command
New York
Chaney
Hess Mission and Britain Soviet Clash Revealed
Washington reports detail the Hess flight to Britain and a German plan to form a British German coalition against Russia. The narrative traces internal Nazi power struggles, Churchill and Roosevelt responses, and Allied military actions as Germany eyed a continental free hand.
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Washington, D. C
Hess—Mess
Britain
Soviet
Russia
Red Russia
Balkan
Germany
Europe
Hitler
Hess
Norway
Duke of Hamilton
Italy
France
Washington
Moscow
Darlan
Laval
Roosevelt
Hull
Syria
Japan
Stalin
John Winant
Churchill
National Crop Outlook Brightens Amid Favorable Conditions
National crop prospects are improved due to favorable early season weather with expectations of larger harvests than last year. Higher farm product prices and rising dairy demand, aided by relief purchases and export shipments, lift dairy farmer incomes about 20 percent on average. Meat producers, especially hog farmers, see gains as prices climb toward a three year high with government hog purchases encouraging heavier stock.
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L. G. Elliott
LaSalle Extension University
Chicago
Memos of a Girl Friday Highlights Wartime Rumors and Local Feuds
Dear Mr W Billy Rose offered the editors a job in his Diamond Horseshoe revue. The Hour reveals alleged Nazi sabotage plans and shifting German Italian loyalties. Ex-congressman O Connor faces libel suits as Pearson and Allen attack Kansas court records. Labor Day 1939 note claims vodka and Rhine wine poison. Your Girl Friday reports.
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Billy Rose
Commy Daily Worker
Billy
U. S
Pearson
Allen
J. J. O’connor
N.Y
O'Connor
Kansas Court Record
U.S
Richard Hopkins
Kansas
Appeals Court
Sweeney
N. Y
O’connor
Hopkins
Commies
Nazzies
Charlie of
Place Elegante
Mr. Hitler
Underground Nazi Humor and Resistance Tales
Illustrative collected underground stories from Nazi occupied Europe recount speeches and pranks. Goering quizzed a munitions director about worker politics, Paris cafe alarm clocks, Dutch carnations and razor blades, vigilant neighbors reported to Gestapo, and a BBC listener waiting for Hitler from London.
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Holland
London
Gestapo
BBC
Hitler
Home Lessons Care for Dance Floor Apologies
A 22 page booklet offers diagrams and directions for basic steps and variations of the waltz Westchester fox-trot shag rumba Samba Conga tango Peabody and Lindy Hop. Learn to lead and follow with simple home practice to avoid toe injuries and awkward stumbles.
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Westchester
Signal Code Flags for Coast Messages in 1934
Colliers notes the International Code of Signals uses 40 flags including 26 letters 10 numbers and 3 substitutes plus an answering pennant Adopted in 1934 the system can transmit up to 375000 messages with at most four or five flags hoisted at a time All signals are visible through glasses in clear weather up to five miles away
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All Nations
Colliers
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Georgia
Florida
Tennessee
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Jacob E. Fickel
Nevada
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New Mexico
Texas
Oklahoma
Auxiliary Air Force
Congress
Representative Woodring
Defense
Bernard Baruch
War Industries Board
Baruch
OPM
Knudsen
LaSalle
Ukraine
Goering
Paris
Bernhard
Sixth Avenue
New York City
Derree Vision
Kyawino Parmaro
Carlyle
Wx Star
Penetrolows
Goethe
Syrus
Fleischmann’s
Disraeli
Crowninshield's
Salem
Mass
America
King Edward
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