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    Paper Salvage was a part of a programme launched by the British Government in 1939 at the outbreak of the Second World War to encourage the recycling of...
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  • as "salvage" Salvage for Victory, a US Government campaign to salvage materials for the American war effort in World War II Paper Salvage 193950, a British...
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    Ministry of Information (United Kingdom) (category Ministries established in 1939)
    Fictional version of the MOI in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four Paper Salvage 193950 Political Warfare Executive – British Second World War white and...
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    in the Second World War Military production during World War II Paper Salvage 193950 Rosie the Riveter Squander Bug Utility furniture Veronica Foster...
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  • were undertaken on campaigns including "Careless Talk Costs Lives" and Paper Salvage. Home Intelligence reports are now used as a primary source by historians...
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    in the South China Sea. In the 21st century, her wreck was illegally salvaged by scrap metal dealers. In the aftermath of the First World War, the Washington...
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  • introduces children competing to win minor salvaging competitions, particularly with aluminium, glass and used paper. It also deals with the phenomena of the...
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    Keep Calm and Carry On (category 1939 quotations)
    until April 1940, but stocks were then pulped as part of the wider Paper Salvage campaign. Some copies do appear to have been displayed, but such instances...
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    helicopters, three barges and 10 yawls. At 9:40 a.m., 20 divers from the Sea Salvage & Rescue Unit [ko] of the Korean Navy arrived at the scene to recover bodies...
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    1963 and donated to the Yasukuni Shrine. In 1970, the Fukada Salvage Company began salvage operations that lasted until 1978 and scrapped about 75% of...
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    Battle of the River Plate (category 1939 in Uruguay)
    Battle of the River Plate was fought in the South Atlantic on 13 December 1939 as the first naval battle of the Second World War.[citation needed][clarification...
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    exhibitors sold off the contents of their pavilions, or people offered to salvage specific parts of pavilions. The New York Daily News wrote in 2012 that...
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  • (1978) The Saint and the Templar Treasure (1979) Count On the Saint (1980) Salvage for the Saint (1983) Books by Burl Barer The Saint (film novelization)...
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    commanded the 4th Army of the Wehrmacht during the invasion of Poland in 1939 and the Battle of France in 1940, earning a promotion to Generalfeldmarschall...
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    Gunn from the United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) showed him a 1939 paper on the subject by Harold Urey, and Abelson became intrigued by the possibility...
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    with her masts and rigging intact and all but her bow above the ice, to salvage any remaining items. By then, two days after abandoning her, the ship was...
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    via ProQuest. "Pluto: The Salvage Operation – 1947 to 1949". Combined Ops. Retrieved 31 March 2021. "Pluto Pipeline (Salvage)". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)...
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    to save paper in large quantities. Newspapers reduced to four or six pages long. In June 1943, Londoners donated their old books for salvage, recycling...
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    Ernest J. King (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
    Postgraduate School and commanded submarine divisions. He directed the salvage of the submarine USS S-51, earning the first of his three Navy Distinguished...
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    it, he thought it was a disaster. After hiring a film editor to try to salvage it, he finally ordered that it be destroyed. His next two films, Everybody's...
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    May June 1847. Sir James Ross' pillar has not however been found and the paper has been transferred to this position which is that in which Sir J. Ross'...
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  • the engineering section at the Montreal Laboratory, proposed in a 1946 paper that the reactor be encased in a pressure vessel. This would make it safer...
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  • was recovered by islanders from across the Hebrides, contrary to marine salvage laws. Because no duty had been paid on the whisky, members of HM Customs...
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  • expressionist painter, slit his arms Conrad Roy (2014), American marine salvage captain, carbon monoxide poisoning, after his girlfriend urged him to commit...
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    in the late 19th century. The trilogy comprises Voyage, Shipwreck, and Salvage. Major figures in the play include Michael Bakunin, Ivan Turgenev, and...
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  • direct reference to her does not appear in print until the 1983 novel Salvage for the Saint. Another recurring character, Scotland Yard Inspector Claud...
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    2013. Retrieved 27 February 2013. airfieldinformationexchange – Carnaby: Salvage Centre National Archives – A History of 59 MU: Newland National Archives...
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    machines. When ships were lost in circumstances where the enemy might salvage them, the Germans investigated. After investigating some losses in 1940...
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    Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact negotiations (category 1939 in the Soviet Union)
    placated.'" In an introduction to a 1992 paper, Geoffrey Roberts wrote, "Perhaps the only thing that can be salvaged from the wreckage of the orthodox interpretation...
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    Nature, Volume 143, Number 3615, 239-240 (11 February 1939). The paper is dated 16 January 1939. Meitner is identified as being at the Physical Institute...
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