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... there is incentive lacking, as compared with the war years when, despite longer hours of work .nearly everybody was “digging for victory In some ways, from the allotment-holder’s point of view, the present situation is welcome inasmuch as there is justification ...
... in fact many of them magnificently did during the war years—in their allotments and gardens. Since those days when digging for victory waa as great a patriotic effort as Home Guarding and Civil Defence, the townsman has been rather backsliding. He has ...
... some extent of aliens (including enemy and ex-enemy aliens) fought and won the battle of the soil” without which victory all other victories might not have meant very much The Department of Agriculture used to issue a detailed annual report but the last ...
... said they brought brightness and beauty into all our lives. The Provost recalled the appeal during the recent war to dig for victory and how we almost broke our backs in the process. He of the opinion that the need to produce foodstuffs was greater ...
... bringing brightness and beauty to the town. You may remember, he said, that during the war we were constantly told to dig for victory.** and many nearly broke their back in the process. There is still the same need to-day, to make ourselves self-supporting ...
... Society of the Post Office Headquarters in Scotland ssprang from the small‘est beginnings—ifriendly rivalry during the “Dig for Victory” years between a cougle of Post Office workers—and the Society’s annual show, held in the G.P.0., Edinburgh, to-day, was ...
... could farm il. I can still remember the enthusiasm with which I went to work with an axe and spade in answer to the Dig for Victory call on the outbreak of war. Until the third of September, our's had been a reasonably respectable back-green. with its ...
... hide the whisky from the vigilant searchers from the Customs. According to Mr MacGregor, never had there been such digging for victory! The great bulk of the salvaged cases was buried on the moor or by the shore. Interment took place at night or in the ...