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Camped near a good old-time canteen...
...Which Way Is Ireland?" Lindbergh carries five sandwiches in a brown paper bag, a canteen of water, a rubber raft, two small flashlights, a knife, and not much more except an iron will. For the first hours, that will is lightly tested, an occasional nodding daydream, a slight arm or leg cramp. Now & then he takes a swallow of water and keeps alert by checking his instruments and charts. But after nightfall, with The Spirit of St. Louis a dot over the Atlantic, fog closes in. Lindbergh looks for holes, climbs to 10,000 ft., goes down...
...followed her husband through the South until 1945, then returned to Manhattan for her first musical, Hollywood Pinafore, in which she played the part of a gossip columnist called Louhedda Hopsons. During the war years, Shirley, who is an expert dancer, cut many a rug at the Stage Door Canteen...
Stubborn Sterilizer. A new germicide that will keep surgical instruments sterile for months has been put on sale by Chicago's U.S. Movidyne Corp. Odorless, tasteless and colorless, a few drops of movidyne inside a canteen or food container will sterilize its contents for several weeks, despite repeated refillings and daily washing. Price...
...pieced together later by Army investigators, a white U.S. Army lieutenant and three Negro G.I.s burst into the freezing mud-and-stick hut where Pang, his sister-in-law and her two children lay huddled on straw mats. They announced that they were searching for stolen U.S. goods-blankets, canteens and canteen cups. Pang placed himself before the woman and children, and, in halting English, objected to the search...