Waste in the British Army has led to the appointment of a Controller-General of Expenditure. One example of prodigality is given ...
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Article : 536 wordsThe Minister for Labour and Industry, Mr. Holt, to-day announced a decision to build a "first instalment" of 50 homes at Glen Davis, ...
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Article : 698 words"The Army no longer lies under the shadow of inaction, but has emerged into the full light of achievement," declared the Secretary of War, Captain ...
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Article : 358 wordsThe Air Ministry announces that mines laid from the air have destroyed more than 100 enemy warships, troopships, and supply ships since the ...
Article : 279 wordsIntervening dramatically when the three German internees recaptured last month after escaping from an internment camp appeared in the Criminal ...
Article : 370 wordsCaptain Eddie Rickenbacker, president of Eastern Air Lines, who is steadily recovering from critical injuries which he received in a plane crash at ...
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Article : 346 wordsThe 748th State lottery will be drawn on Tuesday at 7 p.m., and a list of the prize-winning numbers will be published in the "Herald" on Wednesday. ...
Article : 49 wordsConditions arising from the war had greatly accentuated juvenile delinquency, asserted Mr. Watson Boyce, Probation Officer at the Southwark ...
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Article : 15 wordsMr. Harry Carmichael, Director-General [?] Munitions, in a broadcast, revealed that Canada, before the end of 1942, would be manufacturing 147,000 automatic guns a year, ...
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Article : 77 wordsTwo men now serving in the A.I.F. are members of a family of 14 children, almost all of whom are serving actively in the war. ...
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Article : 125 wordsThe Lo[?]oten, a chain of islands on the north-west coast of Norway, in some places present walls of bare rock, rising sheer from the ocean. ...
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Article : 39 wordsSpecial rates for theatre employees on duty at midnight performances were fixed by Mr. Justice Piper in the Arbitration Court to-day ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 8 Mar 1941, Page 14
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