New York Scene Highlights Ailing Stage and Army Camp Laughs
A collage notes a theater critic weary of a new show calling it a stinker, Milton Berle entertaining at an army camp with a soldier praise, and a New York street scene about a late date to an aeroplane. It also recalls veterans, drafts, and literary figures in wartime journalism history.
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New York
Sallies
Stinker
Mister Berle
Milton Berle
58Th
42Nd Street
James Gordon Bennett
Bennett
Washington
NY. Herald
Porter
Oliver Carlson
Duell, Sloan and Pearce, Inc
Horace Greeley
Gibraltar the Rock and Gate to Allied Invasion Routes
A vivid account of Gibraltar as a strategic Western Mediterranean hinge in World War II. The piece notes Allied troop ships and matériel passing through Gibraltar Strait to Africa, the heavy Axis air harassment, and the diverse, crowded life from Tangier to Ceuta, with Moorish and European influences visible in the city and surrounding region.
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Gibraltar
French Africa
Strait of Gibraltar
Mediterranean
Europe
Africa
Britain
Rock of Gibraltar
Spain
Ceuta
Hercules
Atlantic
Tangier
Morocco
Bay of Algeciras
City of
The Old Pincer Play In Action Again
After passing Gibraltar the Yanks landed in Algeria and moved east toward Tunisia and Libya. British tanks push west through Libya to pressure the Axis from the east while American forces with French help strike from the west.
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Gibraltar
Algeria
Tunisia
Libya
Two Fisted Jeffers pushes for nationwide gas rationing
Washington report details Rubber Czar Bill Jeffers telling the House Interstate Commerce subcommittee that blocking rationing is futile. He defends Baruch report goals and argues to keep the nation on rubber for war production. The piece also notes Darlan cooperation debates and a Milltown tin can exchange plan as wartime logistics topics.
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Bill Jeffers
House-Interstate-Commerce
Jeffers
Clinton P. Anderson
New Mexico
Leon Henderson
Henderson
OPA
Rubber Administration
Office of Defense Transportation
Hatton Sumners
Texas
Washington
Milltown
N.—J
New York City
LaGuardia
New Brunswick
Millville
South Jersey
Gift suggestions from Mrs Spears book 8
Note describes gift ideas from Mrs Spears' Book 8 that lists over 30 home makes and gifts and invites readers to order a copy.
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Spears
Wasted Water From Pinhead to Matchhead Faucets
A leaking faucet wastes 170 gallons per day for a pinhole opening, 970 gallons for a pinhead, and 3,600 gallons for a matchhead. Overall about one hundred million gallons daily, or 10 percent of New York City’s piped water, is lost this way.
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Collier’s
New York City
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Tregaskis
Solomon Islands
West Gate
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Sebee
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Admiral Darlan
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Pacific
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Sumner Welles
State Department
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Maury
Ruth Wyeth Spears
American Chain Division
York, Pa
Boston
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Detroit, Los
Philadelphia
Pittburgh
San Francisco
AMERICAN CHAIN & CABLE __COMPANY, INC
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Iid
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Ruth Wyeth
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Tare
Baruch Committee
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Wiz
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