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The WAR EFFORT on the HOME FRONT

... WOMEN WORKERS REPLACE MEN AT KING'S CROSS STATION Girl telephone operators, who have taken over men's work in the Engineering Office at this London terminus. The men they replace have either gone into the Forces or have taken over more important tasks in connection with the country's war effort TONS OF COAL FOR THE WINTER DUMPED IN LONDON Thousands of tons of coal are being stacked up on the ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 541 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HERBERT TERRY & SONS, LTD

... HERBERT TERRY SONS, LTD., HERBERT TERRY SONS, LTD., When we go back to gracious living, the rERRY ANGLEP01SE will resume its proper place in our homes by cosy fire ancl bedside, in library corner, on bureau, desk md studio board taking up any one of 1;001 angles at a finger-touch, staying put in any position till needed, casting its gently diffused beam on the ob ject, not in the user's eyes ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 122 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs 

WM. SANDERSON & SON LTD

... WM. SANDERSON SON LTD WM. SANDERSON SON. LTD.. sSam&uUfrtd LUXURY BLEND SCOTCH WHISKY ,-r v.. I VAT 69 L E I T H ...

CONVOY TO RUSSIA: With a British Cruiser Escort on the Arctic Life-line

... 'Phe pictures reproduced on these pages re al! taken on board an escort cruiser whicl sailed with a Convoy of merchantmen some o them Russian heavily laden with supplies and mi rutions for the Red Army. Before setting out, the m rubers of the crew all received an issue of Arctic ctathing, in view of the exceptional conditions which wo uld be encountered en route. The Convoy, escorted by ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 525 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

IS AUSTRALIA IN DANGER?

... A Series of Questions which hove been answered by DONALD COW IE (an Authority on Pacific Defence COULD Japan invade Australia? This depends on the outcome of the present operations in the north, but it should be remembered that the distance between the two countries is greater than the span of the North Atlantic Ocean: approximately 3,500 miles separate Tokyo from Cape York. But What About ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 983 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Maps  Photographs 

A GROUP OF PICTURES FROM MANY THEATRES OF WAR

... FROM YUGOSLAVIA Nazis at bay before a non-existent army This remarkable pic ture was taken as rifle-fire was echoing and high explosives were thundering down the Western Morava Valley, as Nazi troops moved against the Serbian guerrillas, timidly and in fear of their lives although there were three divisions of them. Eighty thousand Yugoslav patriots are still fighting in their country, where ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 785 | Page: Page 24, 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TWO IMPORTANT DECLARATIONS ARE SIGNED IN LONDON

... I his momemtous declaration was signed by the proper representatives in London of Belgium, Free France, Greece, Luxembourg, Poland, Norway the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia each of whom pledged his country to exact retribution for the atrocities and bar barities committed by the Nazis and their Axis associates against the civilian populations which they had overrun. Mr. Anthony ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 456 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED

... Aspects of an Industry COAL FROM NEWCASTLE r t 1HE Poet Laureate, once a sailor before the mast, has immortalised the dirty British coaster with its salt- caked smoke-stack and its cargo of Tyne coal. In the chain of delivery of coal from the pit face to the domestic hearth and factory furnace, not the least hazardous link is the coasting collier. Flonour to our coasting seamen, from whatever ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 317 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Photographs 

KUTNOW'S

... KUTNOWS KUTNOWS POWDER k I r (Iff every morning UNDOUBTEDLY the finest treatment for all Uric Acid trouble 1,1: i „r ty d glass ui ^ULUUWS pain.causing acids. It increases taken first thing every morning. alkalinity of the blood-stream, A spoonful of this famous saline- puts the liver and kidneys in sound alkaline dissolved in cold or warm working order, and cleanses the water agreeably ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 147 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Photographs 

Graphic

... BRITAIN S NEW HEAVY INFANTRY TANK, THE CHURCHILL, IS LANDED FROM A T.L.C. and moves off at speed over rough ground A scene during battle manoeuvres in Britain (This is one of the first pictures to be released showing the new tank in action) All the world has known of the existence of the Churchill tank details of its construction were announced by the Prime Minister himself during the Commons ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 203 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GOEBBELS SAYS LET 'EM ALL COME!

... GOEBBELS SAYS LET 'EM ALL COME! Informed of Our Plans for the Creation of a Second Front, the Enemy have so Fortified the Occupied Coast that it Now Bristles with all Sorts of Obstacles to Impede Our Landings and to Check Our Advance. Some of These Defensive Measures are Here Described By FERDINAND TUOHY NEARLY a year has elapsed since the first rumblings were heard in the land for a Second ...

Published: Saturday 25 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2099 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

The PROBLEM of the GENERAL GRANTS in LIBYA

... 'Phe accompanying diagram has been prepared by our artist to illustrate one particular difficulty that must face our tank commanders in the desert, namely, what tactical use to make of the rather peculiarly constituted General Grant tank. This machine is in many ways a valuable weapon, especially as it has heavy armour what our own tanks have often lacked in the past but it is apparently slow ...

Published: Saturday 25 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 416 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Photographs