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... Better Take a Mac CWCH is the British climate that there are few days when this is not sound advice. It is also a tribute to the memory of the inventor of the Mac a Scot, Charles Macintosh (not Mackintosh as the dictionaries usually say who in 1823 produced a waterproof material by impregnating fabric with a solution of rubber in naphtha. How to make clothes withstand water is still a major ...

... The JAPANESE NAVAL and AIR OFFENSIVE in the BAY of BENGAL Which Resulted in the Loss of the Cornwall and Dorsetshire and the Aircraft-Carrier Hermes Jn the earlier part of April it became evident that strong i Japanese naval and air forces were in process of invading the waters of* the Bay of Bengal as far as the eastern shores of Ceylon the first intimation of this came from enemy sources ...

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... THE TORPEDO IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE MOST DEADLY WEAPON WHICH CAN BE EMPLOYED AGAINST A CAPITAL SHIP The destruction it causes is extensive and dangerous, for it literally hits below the belt. This series of diagrammatic views shows how the charge Hevelnnc a„H i, n-n.. c.. construction of the hull- u f- M 1 1 M IIUTI ll IJ UuV lldllr C I I C V. n I I I (i CCVI U J LIIC -Drawing by S. W. Clatwortby ...

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... , Coventry The day will come The day will come when flags will be unfurled and waved by joybus hands When black-out curtains will be torn down from the windows When gas-masks will be packed away as treasured souvenirs of the war When Tommy will be seen in civvies once again When fighting between nations will have ceased. The time will come when gleaming new Standard models will be seen at the ...

... Ad v t. of The General Electric Co. Lto , Magnet House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2 J.9/4 THE contrast between the elaborate silk covered lamp standard of 1914, and its modern elegant counterpart symbolises the rapid and continuous progress always being made in the electrical industry. Science did not stand still in 1914 and to-day the G.E.C. is keeping abreast of developments and improvements ...