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IMPERIAL LEATHER

... THE MASTER TOUCH The dress illustrated was created by Norman Hartnell from his own exclusive print. Posed by Mrs. Robert Nesbitt. Imperial Leather Toilet Soap created by Cussons. TOILET SOAPS CREATED FOR THE DISCRIMINATING BY CtlSSOTlS OF MANCHESTER ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1944
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 42 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Photographs 

Old Tales Re-told

... He leaped T he ^Whirlwind How a Small River in North America Got its Peculiar N ame Written and Illustrated By F. Matania, r.i. CRAZY-WOMAN'S FORK is the name of a tributary of the Powder River in the State of Oregon, North America. This particular tributary had been originally named by the Red Indians Big Beard, after a kind of plant which grew along its banks. But later on a dramatic ...

Salt Sense

... CHECK up on your salt consumption. You will most likely find that you don't even bother to taste your food to test its salt content before taking a helping of salt. It is not good for the body to have too much salt. There are certain physical conditions in which it is best if salt is eliminated completely from the diet. This does not mean that you will have a salt-free diet rather that you ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1944
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 418 | Page: Page 41 | Tags: Photographs 

Make Yourself These String Slippers: MATERIALS REQUIRED

... Make Yourself These l^ippers MATERIALS REQUIRED 1 crochet hook, 1 pair of cork soles and another pair of fleece-lined; 2 balls of green glacé string and 1 ball of yellow is sufficient for the tops of 2 pairs; 1 ball of ordinary white string makes soles for two pairs of shoes. The pattern is for a size 5. Coloured stripes are introduced at regular intervals by changing to alternative coloured ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1944
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 564 | Page: Page 42, 69 | Tags: Photographs 

The Women at the Ton

... The Chiefs of the Three Women 's Services From a Personal Angle By Wilma Buckley We exist to-day in a machine-inade, machine-run age; war compels us into a way of life that is itself mechanical in its every aspect. Women, on terms of equality with men, are necessarily regimented as units in the war machine. It is therefore, a pleasure to consider the three Chiefs of the Women's Services; to ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1944
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1513 | Page: Page 44, 66 | Tags: Photographs 

Early To School

... BEFORE the war the nursery school was growing very nicely as an institution, although there were still many parents who preferred to keep their children at home until the compulsory school age of five. With the advent of the war, and the conditions which have made it essential for so many mothers to find a daily occupation for their children while they themselves work, the system has proved ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1944
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 610 | Page: Page 50 | Tags: Photographs 

THE BRITISH IN THE AZORES

... ITr IHMVnraHHHBHajW] IPHKaltf W Flying Fortresses of Coastal Command at Their Dispersal Points at One of the New Air Bases in the Islands VAPOUR TRAILS OVER BREMEN, heralding destruction to another Nazi war-target: As these Flying Fortresses stream over the vital German seaport town of Bremen, each exhibits four long vapour trails from its powerful engines. Bremen had become Germany's leading ...

The BATTLE of TARAWA in the Gilbert Islands

... On November 23, 1943, U.S. Marines and soldiers took the Gilbert Islands in the bloodiest, battle of the war in the Pacific. In three days of the fiercest fighting the Marine casualties were over 3,500 killed and wounded. These pictures are from stills from the official News-reel, taken whilst the fighting on the island was still in progress THE OBJECTIVE This is a view of Makin island, the ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 558 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The DWINDLING EUROPEAN MONARCHIES

... THERE may not be more than half-a-dozen monarchies left in Europe at the end of this war. A generation ago there were sixteen-- nineteen, if one counted the lesser Kings of Saxony, Württem- berg and Bavaria. The decline of European monarchy has been an outstanding characteristic of the stormy twentieth century. Casualties have been isolated or in clusters. At present it looks as if a landslide ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1848 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

The R.A.F. IN THE AZORES: A New Phase in the Battle Against the Atlantic U-boats

... THE HOMECOMING OF THE U-BOAT KILLERS An escort group of anti-submarine vessels after they had sunk two submarines (and probably two others) in the North Atlantic recently. They are H.M.S. Versatile (nearest camera), an 1,100-ton destroyer completed in 1918 behind, left to right H.M.S. Godaveri, a sloop of the Royal Indian Navy and largely operated by Indian personnel; H.M.S. Vanessa, 900 ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 708 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs