Washington mobilizes fifteen thousand for emergency farm labor
In Washington DC a campaign led by Johnny Jones aims to recruit about fifteen thousand District of Columbia residents to volunteer for farm labor during harvest. Volunteers include White House staff, cabinet aides, senators, Marines, WAVES, and other service members, with camps offering pay and flexible hours.
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Washington
District of Columbia
Johnny Jones
Philadelphia Athletics
Coatsville
Department of Agriculture Extension Service
Jones
White House
Wacs
WAVES
Marines
SPARS
Virginia
Air Evacuation of Wounded Among Modern Military Medicine
The article details air evacuation as a top life saving measure, tracing a wounded Doughboy from Normandy to home via unarmed C-54s and ATC planes. It highlights nurses Marjean Brown and Suella Bernard, the rapid transport chain, and the system's impact on survival and morale.
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Normandy
D-Day
Marjean Brown
Columbus
Ohio
Suella Bernard
Waynesville
Joe
England
Air Transport Command
Long Island
British Isles
New York
Colorado Rockies
Dad
Mom
Sis
David N Grant
Army Air Forces
Army
Makin Island
Anzio
Norman T Kirk
France
Paul R Hawley
United Kingdom
United States
Trooper Carrier Command
ATC
Jim
North Africa
Sergt Walter A Smith
Sprngfield
Mass
Italy
Baker General Hospital
Martinsburg
W Va
Ashford General Hospital
White Sulphur Springs
Hagerstown
Smith
Continental United States
AAF
Andres G Oliver
Oil pact between US and Britain aims to avert future wars
The article details an informal oil agreement between the United States and Great Britain to reduce war risk by ensuring fair, non-discriminatory oil trade and cooperative development. It notes past British and American tensions over oil in Palestine, Colombia, Arabia, and Persia, and describes provisions to avoid cutthroat competition while safeguarding concessions and access.
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United States
Great Britain
Charles Evans Hughes
Palestine
League
U. S
Colombia
Panama Canal
Panama
Arabia
Gulf of Persia
Atlantic
Near East
Washington
Lord Beaverbrook
Ickes
Hull
Britain
England
USA
Ethiopia
Mussolini
Italy
Germans Capture Notes and War Production Update
A German soldier captured in France wrote in his notebook a line blessing retreat. Production of 12 782 electric ranges in Q3 1944 is authorized for three manufacturers without war work interference. A pamphlet from the Office of Defense Transportation outlines a simple method to detect slow tyre leaks to prevent flats. German dentists are ordered to limit care to urgent measures.
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France
Office of Defense Transportation
Air Medal Ribbon Winner Morale Builder
Lieutenant Gerdan Bouwhuis of Kalamazoo Michigan, a flight nurse with the ferrying division of the Air Transport Command, wears the Air Medal ribbon for heroic services in the South Pacific theater. She attends a wounded soldier whose gratitude is evident in this photograph.
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Air Transport Command
Gerdan Bouwhuis
Kalamazoo
Mich
Bouwhuis
South Parign
Lawn Chair For Children And Adults Pattern Sale
Pint-size lawn chair shown with measurements for children and teens. Patterns 253 and 269 provide materials lists, diagrams, and step by step directions. both patterns offered together for a small price by mail order.
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Iriver
Monument to Victor Emmanuel II in Rome
Rome's monument to Victor Emmanuel II, king of Italy from 1861 to 1878, is the world’s costliest memorial of its kind. Built of white marble with sculpted reliefs and a large equestrian statue, it covers a square block, rises as high as an 18 story building, cost five million dollars and took twenty six years to complete before its 1911 dedication.
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Rome
Victor Ammanuel
Italy
Cotter
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Western Newspaper Union
Washington, DC
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