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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1944
Page
2
Ford Motor Company ships new plastic dipped engine parts to armed forces for replacement engines. The process involves a “gigstie ceathz erenkshafts” intended to prevent con fessors from we.
In Mykbyina Burma the Irrawaddy frontier scene hosts a makeshift laundry powered by hospital crews. Pvt Haran Nimmo and Pvt Lford Wagner oversee a 1,209 feet clothesline operation with 3,200 feet of line. Rows of washing machines run on heated water piped from the river as Burmese laborers assist under wartime strain.
An excerpt describes makeshift bathing arrangements at a base including a hand pumped shower, a citizen inventor Captain Zlmer Myers from Philip WVa, and improvised basins and water supply. It lists officers nurses and various staff with several named individuals. The piece ends noting Nancy Lee Skard with thirteen ancestors including a ninety year old great great grandmother.
Fremont Nebraska youth Bob Beck began farming at 13, bought forty pigs for 90 dollars each, and turned a profit of 3930 on 50 gilt pigs. He paid off his father’s mortgage on the farm, becoming a partner with his father and grandfather on 320 acres. He is state president of the Nebraska Futura Farmers of America and swine champion of Saunders County. He plans to invest profits to enter state competition.
Eugene Holzschuh, once a Hitler Youth member in Germany at age 11, completed training at Farragut Naval Training Center and now serves in the U S Navy. After 1966, he was adopted into the West German youth order, resisted Luftwaffe pressure, and returned to America with his mother aboard one of the last ships out of a German port.
Houston soldiers report that incoming care packages from home disrupt mess line order. S/Sgt Charles Linton recalls men giving up spots at the head of the chow line to check for gifts, saying infantrymen would rather share a present than eat rations.
A ragtag team of engineers and volunteers in 2008 built a makeshift lung from junked parts to save Lieutenant Robert Wesselhoets in India before transporting him to the United States. The improvised device, tested by a medical officer, proved it could function, earning praise for the patient’s resilience and the crew’s ingenuity.
Gas related fatalities climbed in 1943 amid fuel shortages as Metropolitan Life statisticians report about 2,266 deaths from accidental gas poisoning. Carbon monoxide from improper setups caused most deaths. Four-fifths occurred in homes with cook stove burners and improvised heaters contributing to numerous fatalities.
Brunstick Meihi James A Stapies of Bath received a ninety day jail term after admitting to tormenting and torturing a cow.
A powerful set powered airport lighting unit floods a mile long landing strip. The United Nations uses this high wattage floodlight system mounted on a motorized track to illuminate runways. It features 3,000 watt lights and a compact operator supplying sufficient current for full strip illumination.
Robot bombs predicted to end wars as potent weapons. Willy Ley foresees a future where winged projectiles influence warfare. Lay recalls British officials discussing punitive strikes and nations’ factories as targets, noting risks if superior bombs proliferate.
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