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NEW LAMPS and OLD: A Fortnightly Causerie on Life and Letters

... minds or shallow minds. If ever there was a time in our history when the citizen should take off his coat mentally and dig for Victory, it is now in the new revolution. The new model of social security for all is officially conditioned as dependent for ...

Published: Saturday 18 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1783 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

A Gardening Brains Trust

... Horticultural Advisory Panel, a body of expert horticulturists who have rendered invaluable service in connection with the dig for victory campaign. In co operation with the Corporation's Allotment Assistant, Mr. A. G. Healey, N.D.H., and the Garden Assistant ...

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 ...

January is the Time to Plan

... onions gives point to this assertion. Everyone who owns a garden should take stock of his individual contribution to the Dig for Victory campaign, to see if it is possible to improve on past results and help to make 1941 the greatest gardening season ever ...

Crop Values Analysed

... so, to start a garden record book at once. The most notable change of policy in official quarters since the advent of dig for victory concerns the production of potatoes in small gardens. The statement that enough main crop potatoes for the country's need ...

The Social Round: Clarion Call from Chelsea

... first-aid post they learn to sing, carpenter, cook, dress-make (Ethne Fry the artist is the Schiap of her post) and to dig for victory, make toys and speak two languages as well as the medical lingo. More important, they learn to look and to be good nurses ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3165 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

Pictures in the Fire: Digging for Victory

... -/4 H By Sabretache Digging for Victory THERE may be nothing in it; but, on the other hand, there may, and it is certain that a neurotic like Herr Hitler will believe that there is. Almost synchronously with the start of his Russian grab, some scientists ...

Published: Wednesday 30 July 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1854 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

Leslie Banks and Daughters: An Actor's Family Digs for Victory

... Leslie Banks and Daughters An Actor's Family Digs for Victory A classical scholar of Keble might well be the first line of a limerick. It is actually the first line in the career of Leslie Banks, actor, producer and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts ...

Published: Wednesday 28 August 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 257 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

Soldiers Digging for Victory: Valuable food production from lands and estates occupied by troops

... Soldiers Digging for Victory Valuable food production from lands and estates occupied by troops THE sight of derelict gardens and estates, neglected through war conditions and rapidly becoming nothing more than wildernesses, has been a sad sight both ...

Week- End Cottage Into Market Garden

... for London. Recently the girls inserted this advertisement in the Personal column of The Times 44 Three smart girls digging for victory, require small utility van for delivering fruits and vegetables loan, buy cheaply or exchange for Morris Eight. If ...