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...newly published British Government pamphlet, called A Guide to the Preservation of Life at Sea after Shipwreck, sells for fourpence in London and tells in simple, sometimes grim language the personal lessons learned in World Sea War II. Sample lessons...
...minimum amount of food per day for one person includes "one ounce each of high-fat-content biscuits [crackers], condensed milk, chocolate and butterfat." Standard lifeboat provisions include Energy Tablets, each containing 5 milligrams of either metherdrine or amphetamine (stimulating drugs), which should be used only in emergencies. The pamphlet adds: "It may be dangerous to drop off to sleep . . . because the risk of drowning is thereby increased...
When the Magenta was printed that morning it was a small, two column, fortnightly pamphlet, which contained editorial comment, essays, poetry, and gentle satire. Competition and the passing years changed is slowly, first to a weekly and finally to a daily. It's name kept changing, too, and the five-column Crimson of today came only...
...help its canteen workers understand American patrons, Britain's Navy, Army & Air Force Institutes issued a pamphlet. Interesting by-product was the information it gave U.S. soldiers about what the British think of them after nearly a year in the United Kingdom. Samples: >"Americans are men's men. The American troops are tough, but with a toughness tempered by a strong sense of humor. They think the British nation pretty tough, too, after the way we have stood up to bombings." >"You may think they are inclined to make too much of the skyscrapers of New York...
What Haushofer had to say to Hitler was partly based on a short pamphlet (The Geographical Pivot of History) written in 1904 by British Geographer Sir Halford Mackinder (who expanded it in 1919 into the now reissued Democratic Ideals and Reality). Like Haushofer, Mackinder knew the significance of that stony string of sea bases that joined England to her colonies and dominions. What, he asked, could menace them and the sea power which upheld them? Answer: the possession of a body of land so vast and rich that sea power could never encircle it effectively. Mackinder saw such a body...