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Thinking for Victory

... first time since the war, the Ministry of Agriculture in other words, -the Government have picked up their baby-- the DIG FOR VICTORY organisation and have shown it to the people as the emblem and weapon of the coming offensive. The campaign, carefully ...

Planned Production Always Pays

... oft-repeated advice to get on with the digging last autumn will have all the advantage. Those who were unable to do so, will do well to postpone digging until the soil no longer sticks to the boots-- wet weather digging is a waste of time and effort. nut ...

BOMBING OR--BOREDOM?: The Work of London's Ambulance-Drivers During, and Since, the Great Blitz

... recrea tion facilities in the form of dances, billiards and table-tennis are provided, as well as a certain amount of digging for victory in the immediate neighbourhood of the ambulance station. In any event, the absence of charwomen and the shortage of ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1378 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

Out on the Hills

... Progress is not without interrup tions, for the company of a good- looking dog admits one to a wide freemasonry. The man digging for victory on his allotment is an old friend, although I do not know his name nor he mine. I stop to ask how his potatoes yielded ...

On and Off Duty: A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country; Racing Hopes

... witness to this ownership, with their names of Bedford, Tavistock, Howland and Russell, for Russell is tne lamuy name. Digging for Victory The growing demand for people to grow more food in this country, to save our shipping space, has had a wonderful response ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2574 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs