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Maintenance of Pumpers and Other Fire Apparatus

Description: Bulletin discussing firefighting pumping equipment and various types of maintenance to ensure that they will not fail, including descriptions of suggested tests to verify that they're operating within their parameters.
Date: July 15, 1944
Creator: National Board of Fire Underwriters. Committee on Fire Prevention and Engineering Standards.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet

[Clipping: What Russia Wants]

Description: Reader's Digest version of an editorial by the former Under Secretary of State, discussing how the United States could establish friendship with Soviet Russia in the post-war era. There are handwritten notes around a quotation at the bottom of the last page.
Date: November 1944
Creator: Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping

[Clipping: Smoke Protects Fighters]

Description: Bulletin article discussing the advantage of smoke screens to cover the positions of troops, cities, harbors, ships, and camps during WWII. Partial articles on the reverse of the pages discuss military technology and medical research.
Date: July 1, 1944
Creator: Monahan, A. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping

[Clipping: They Called It Reconstruction]

Description: Clipping from the Reader's Digest discussing the period of Reconstruction after the American Civil War and its impact on race relations. The author describes the discrimination against black citizens by state governments that prompted Reconstruction. The author takes the position that Reconstruction was an unnecessary and harmful process that empowered black citizens at the cost of disempowering white citizens. The author develops this idea through a combination of historical facts and anecdot… more
Date: October 1944
Creator: Muller, Edwin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping

[Clipping: Franco's Friendship]

Description: Newspaper clipping criticizing General Franco's expression of friendship with the Allied Powers and aid to the German and Italian war efforts as "the most brazen attempt at double-dealing in the whole history of international politics."
Date: November 12, 1944
Creator: Washington Post Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping

[Clipping: Letters From the People]

Description: Newspaper clipping states that the end of the war can't be dated, prosperity has returned to farms, the United States is a united nation, and stamping out fascism is not simple. The article "Washington Calling" addresses doubts about the ability of Americans to come together for a common goal. Initially, Americans thought that, when faced with war, the country would stand divided, but during WWII the country united and became a powerhouse of production. The article "Letters From the People" sym… more
Date: November 8, 1944
Creator: Mattfeld, C. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
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