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WAY OF THE WAR: Year of Destiny

... WAY OF THE WAR By Foresight Year of Destiny WITH the New Year new hopes are born. It is a long time since Mr. Churchill forecast 1943 as the year of our maxi mum effort. When he made the prophecy, 1943 seemed far away in the future. Now it is here. This is the year of destiny. Already we have seen the beginnings of the vast movements which will be needed to overthrow the Axis Forces. Already ...

Published: Wednesday 30 December 1942
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1840 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

On and Off Duty: A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country; First-class Shot

... 0 A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country First-class Shot UNEXPECTEDLY, the King has found it pos sible to take a short respite from official duties and spend a few days in the country shooting. It is a good many months now since his Majesty last had the opportunity to handle a gun, but he has lost none of his old skill, and in each day's bag the number credited to the King has been the ...

Published: Wednesday 30 December 1942
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2782 | Page: Page 10, 11, 26 | Tags: Photographs 

THE Vitabuoy

... Vitabuoy Reed. Trade Mark And thi man is still alive I Most Naval inen choose the itabuoy because its buoyancy might be invaluable in emergency. Paymaster Lieutenant R.N., found its fire-resisting properties almost as valuable. After a long spell on the bridge, he lay down on the chart-house floor. Sud denly he woke. There was the dickens of a bang and a shower of sparks. The pistol ...

JACK OLDING LTD & CO

... Oeiier 0 I H T F An -fc- The Caterpillar ^farmer's is the ideal ^horsepower 25-8 Tractor. Drawbar horseP^ An lt. I, my Caterpillar and I am going to way5 we'U take in our A.nv task that c quicker and :ts ^-mhodofdomg Ur than an, other. fuss or bother. We'll We'U go about ou ield) improve quality speed up production) step P Ught In an, are masters of the s.tuauom heavy CaterP''fin our work ...

Potato Planting

... jVyf ANY farmers have been called upon by their War Agricultural Commit tees to grow some acres of potatoes. They are faced with the problem of getting the seed in with very little labour; thus the dif ferent potato-planting machines shown at Witley Park were a great attraction. HOME-MADE This is very much a wartime weapon. The idea was sent by Mr. Bomford to the Institute of Agricultural ...

Up and Down the Land

... tyfr. cmdf Lsoum tfck./a*tc( THE conscription of German children of 10 years and upwards for work on the land was announced by the B.B.C. with that little air of smugness which that organisation seems incapable of keeping out of its broadcasts. The announcement, as a news item, would have been better justified had it been explained what a serious sacrifice was being made by the German people ...

Article

... 2^3 I- i By Our orticultural fe;., .__ Corre ondent TO obtain a greater quantity of food from a given area is the whole country's aim. For the gardener, intercropping --or catch cropping-- is the principal means to this end, and as soon as the main spring sowings of vegetables are made, every grower should consider it his vital duty to, study the possibilities of his own garden. Briefly stated ...

Six-a-Side Hockey at Bournemouth: 54 Matches in One Afternoon

... Six-a-Side Hockey at Bournemouth b4 Matches in One Afternoon Thirty-six teams took part in the Bournemouth Sports Club's second an nual Six-a-Side Hockey Tournament held for the benefit of the Red Cross on Saturday, April 18. After five and a half hours of non-stop play on four pitches, the honours of the day went to an Infantry Regiment, who defeated last year's winners, a Training Regi ment, ...

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... THE BRITISH SAILORS SOCIETY earnestly appeals for help lo enable them to keep pace with the urgent and increasing cost of maintaining Homes and Hostels in ports all over the Empire for our Seafarers' needs. Donations welcomed by Hon. Treasurer, The Rt. Hen. Sir Frederick Sykes, P.C., 6 80, Commercial Road, London, E.14. Mr. Herbert E. Barker, General Secretary. VANTELLA SHIRTS made to match ...

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Motor Cars into War Weapons

... By Our Motoring Correspondent IT is one of the great regrets of all motoring critics that the interests of security dictate that nothing or very little shall be said of the manner in which the great motor-car manufacturers have turned their works over to the production of war materials and especially to those needed for building up the air power of the United Nations. In the days before the ...