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NO PLACE FOR SNEERS

... to sneer at the sources of universal food supply. They would have to return to the simple things; they would have to dig for victory. The mere . admission that the earth was the elemental source of food was not good !enough. The speaker quoted a passage ...

35-FOOT ROAD FANTASTIC

... Prime Minister on the world food crisis, the Chairman urged all members to revive in their parishes the spirit of the Dig for Victory campaign. It was agreed to send a copy of the letter to all Parish Council chairmen. Mr Tribe said work on houses at ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1946
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 421 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NOTES :: :: ON NEWS

... surrounding potatoes, Precaution., must be taken to exclude light ill storage to prevent greening, and If, keep out frost. Dig for Victory Leaflet No. 13. Storing Potatoeii. - may Is , obtained free of charge from Ilse Minlair). :Writ.,ilture and Fisheries ...

Published: Thursday 10 October 1946
Newspaper: Brixham Western Guardian
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 372 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Avenue

... where parking la to be prerented when Torquay United are playing. • * • • • A balance of MS in hand from last year's Dig for Victory show is to be used as prise money for Torquay Horticultural Show in the Town Hall on November 13-14th. At present 121 ...

OPEN CLASSES

... display. and paid warm tribute to the ordinary nun and women who. through six years of war, had contintied to dig for victory. We have won victory over the enemy. but we hays nut yet won victuty over want. he said. Conditions of Mother Nature have not ...

Published: Thursday 03 October 1946
Newspaper: Brixham Western Guardian
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 434 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LABOUR FOR HARVEST

... campaign for increased production in gardens and allotments—a Plant for Peace and Plenty campaign to replace the wartime Dig for Victory effort: extensive reploughing of old grassland which green-manured would be ready for cultivation in the autumn; cancellation ...

Published: Tuesday 26 February 1946
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 768 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

UNO'S BIG TASK

... is as an instrument for bringing about a change of heart that U.N.O. can best justify itself. Allotments THE cry of Dig for Victory heard so often throughout the war has led tea greater interest in gardening by the general public and many families in ...

Published: Friday 11 January 1946
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 962 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ILFRACOMBE HORTICULTURAL SHOW

... gardeners produced an all important part of our vegetable supplies. Your help is needed now more than ever, so carry on and dig for victory over want. A vote of thanks to Mr. Bell was proposed by Mr. Sawyer, who said the committee had hoped for 500 entries ...

Published: Thursday 22 August 1946
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1755 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

& EXPRESS MAY EVENT SESSION BRITISH LEGION BRANCH itaTION DANCE refreshments at Circa 70 XOTE THIS DATE! (Inc : ..

... It to that classic example of futility food producing efforts During the war to maddening enthusiasm Dig dig for Victory Nobody told anybody what to dig for or much to plant Thus various enormous over-production of one thing and then of another one were ...

WHAT A LIFE! Excuse me old boy, I'm still digging for Victory, I was a Home Guard Reserve, I fire

... WHAT A LIFE! Excuse me old boy, I'm still digging for Victory, I was a Home Guard Reserve, I fire watched and did First Aid, I queue for anything one queues for, and I buy Saving Stamps every week. How about conferring 'Freedom' of. some sort. Laugh ...

Published: Friday 26 April 1946
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 101 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE LAND OUR BIGGEST ASSET

... of allotments in the town are not even being culti vated. People get the backache from gardening and have given up digging for victory. If we have to till every acre surely the town dweller should help himself cultivating every possible piece of his garden ...

Published: Thursday 04 April 1946
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 820 | Page: 7 | Tags: none