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... Meanwhile, Professor Harry Thorpe, the society's president, never stops beating the drum. The old war-time slogan dig for victory rings out once more. But it's a pity we have to wait until we're in trouble before we get out our spades. I am pleased ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1974
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 89 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

DIGGER

... DIGGER Mrs. I. J. DYTON, of Harrow, Middlesex, writes : How's this for outdoor-grown tomatoes in these days of Dig for Victory ? There are six plants, and between them they are holding 200 tomatoes ! My husband's in the Forces, so I don't think I've ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 93 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

KEEP 'EM DIGGING

... KEEP 'EM DIGGING WHAT a pity that the enthusiasm of the Dig for Victory drive has been allowed to wane. In some cases allotment holders have become apathetic. In many others they have been dispossessed of their land. Local authorities ought to take ...

Published: Tuesday 15 April 1947
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 110 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

♦ + -4

... Thirties Unfortunately he had no factory into which to put his son. He was, however, impressed by the posters which said Dig for Victory ' and by articles in newspapers stress ing the importance of farmers. So he scanned the advertisements in country journals ...

Published: Friday 31 January 1941
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 124 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

STINKER- OF THE WEEK

... situation, I begged my husband to Dig for Victory and grow vegetables and salads instead of his precious flowers in our garden. He agreed enthusiastically, planting beans and sprouts and lettuces and tomatoes, even digging up the lawn. We went away for the ...

Published: Wednesday 17 September 1975
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 122 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

he bosses model gardea

... he bosses model gardea rHE women of London and the suburbs will get heir Dig for Victory tips lom a young woman who is he new boss of the model llotrnent strip in Hyde Park. She is Miss Barbara Tarver, 6, and she took over from Mr. lbert Blye, the former ...

Published: Saturday 04 October 1941
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 115 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DESPICABLE

... Middlesex, writes:— Wherever I've travelled round London I've seen the slogan Dig for Victory put into practice by many people anxious to help. I perspired very freely when digging a plot which had not been cultivated for years, and had won- derful crops ...

Published: Saturday 18 January 1941
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 102 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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... diet of mouse and milk. PIP, SQUEAK I DIG FOR Pip read in the paper that we must dig for victory —but he found it rather hard to explain to Squeak. However, he set to work diligently in the AND WILFRED VICTORY middle of the lawn (what will Aunt Emma ...

Published: Thursday 15 February 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 127 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

SIICKY JOB

... district. It has not said please and waited hopefully for results, but has ordered every tenant of its houses to Dig for Victory or get out. No half measures about that. Up and down the country there are still tens of thousands of acres which could ...

Published: Tuesday 30 July 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 141 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FOOD VANDALS

... FOOD VANDALS Mrs. M. WICKHAM, of Pastoncrescent, 5.E.12. writes : Talk about waste and Dig for Victory ! I live in a council house surrounded by an orchard, and it makes me disgusted to see how people are allowed to chop and hack down the apple and pear ...

Published: Friday 10 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 146 | Page: 11 | Tags: none