Bits and Pieces From Wartime Gag Columns
A compilation of light wartime jests and quips including sugar rationing comparisons, Churchill energy tips, driving habits, slogans, meal customs, and world politics. It strings together comic bits about Edison snoozes, Paris and Berlin rumors, defense bonds, swing music, and radio gags from entertainers and public figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Winston Churchill
Edison
U. S
Japan
Betsileos
Madagascar
Count Clane
Berlin
Mussolini
Hitler
Ciano
Duce
Bordeaux
A&a
Tschaikowsky
South Pacific
Goebbels
Wotan
Jack Benny
Dennis Day
Benny
Harvard
Betty Grable
Veronica Lake
Ann Sheridan
Hawaii
Olin Miller
Ben Bernie
Roosevelt and Bullitt see no Soviet peace with Germany
Ambassador Bullitt reports to President Roosevelt that Russia will not surrender to the Nazis and will stand with the United Nations. He warns the Russian army may falter if Germany regains air parity, but Russia is expected to stay allied to the Allies to the last. The piece also notes Indian patriotism, tribal war funding, and economic warfronts including commodity shares and soap shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
William C. Bullitt
Roosevelt
Near East
Bullitt
Russia
Germany
Goming
Near
Middle East
United Nations
Japan
India
Australia
New Zealand
John Collier
Office of Indian Affairs
Montana
Oklahoma
Jicarilla
Pacific
Honey in War Time Sugar Rationing Shifts Roles and Notes
In a wartime piece by Charles A. Singler, honey is pitched as a ready made in America substitute for sugar as sugar rationing looms. The article explains how rationing will work, urges sharing hoarded supplies, and extols bees as essential to food supply, detailing bee life from nectar gathering to hive organization and the swarm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Newspaper Union
Dan A. West
Office of Price Administration
Philippines
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Cuba
U. S
Seven Seas
United States
America
Rome
Pliny
Fabre
Maeterlinck
Huber
A Veteran Soldier Remembers and Warns on Labor
An elderly veteran, Maj. George Fitzgerald Lee, recalled frontier service from the Dakotas to the Philippines and World War I memory as San Diego wintering, while a second piece argues labor control would ruin production, warning that worker-run factories resemble a Russian model and could threaten U.S. industry and war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
Maj
George Fitzgerald Lee
Dakotas
Montana
Wyoming
Nebraska
Kansas
Southwest
George Lee
General Shafter
Cuba
Funston
Philippines
China
U S Seeks War Rubber From Diverse Sources
A National Geographic Society bulletin notes the United States depends on rubber from British Malaya the Dutch East Indies Ceylon French Indochina and other eastern sources. Agriculture estimates tropical American rubber could halve the cost of substitutes like guayule or goldenrod with pending legislation to plant 45 000 acres and build extracting facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Malaya
Netherlands East Indies
Ceylon
U. S
National Geographic Society
Department of Agriculture
America
Piano Learning Chart and Instruction 24 Page Book
A 24 page piano instruction book includes a life size keyboard chart and basic chords for quick play. It explains elements of music and offers three practice airs. Order details follow.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Charles A. Singler
U.S.D.A
Forsythe
Patterson
Reuther
Ford
Italy
Congress
Reader-Home Service
Minna Bt
San Francisco, Calif
Gay
Nature
Raleigh Cigarettes
Aoa
MS Ceul
HOTEL
Ben Lomond
Ogden, Utah
Chamber of Commerce
Ad Clad
Ben Lomond Oanen
Oraz
Maher X
Vislok
Maite
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