Navy Pilots Overseas
From navypilotsoverseas, which was immediately added to my Mosaia.
(⇒ via secretforts)
Posts tagged with 1940s
Filed away for future reference, since I am always recommending it to others, here is an online version of Raymond Chandler’s essay “The Simple Art of Murder”, originally published in The Atlantic in December, 1944.
Heat Waves in a Swamp
Charles Burchfield, An April Mood, (1946–55)
Watercolor and charcoal on joined paper, 40 × 54 in.
Part of the upcoming Charles Burchfield retrospective at the Whitney.
When I first read the post title, my brain parenthesized it wrong and I thought this was going to have something to do with Wayfarers, Brooklyn, etc.
protecting precious eyesight from punishing sun glare. USA!
you forgot the “declare” tag.
Perfect for Sports, Falcon Optional
Model wearing capeskin leather shorts with Medieval-inspired vest, perfect for sports and rough wear, as she holds falcon.
(⇒ via life archives)
“a firm, washable leather used esp. for gloves, originally made from the skin of goats from the Cape of Good Hope, but now from hairy lambskin or sheepskin.”
Doramad Radioactive Toothpaste
Doramad Radioactive Toothpaste was produced during World War II by Auergesellschaft of Berlin. The same company founded by Carl Auer von Welsbach who invented the gas lantern mantle! A gamma spectroscopy analysis did reveal trace quantities of thorium, but the levels are too low to be detected with a simple hand-held survey meter.
(⇒ via kp)
after you binge on Fliegerschokolade, its a good idea to brush with Doramad to avoid both cavity creeps and meth mouth.
The 19th Century gardener grew 30 kinds of apples in his orchard, ranging in taste from bitter to sweet. Today, “the large red apple” caters to the public love of all that is “sweet, smooth, and outwardly appealing.” Bread, which was once the crusty staff of life, is now “half-masticated … before reaching the mouth,” and caters to the taste which prefers fruit juice to fruit, chopped meat to a cut off the joint, mashed potato, ice cream, and a host of packaged powders which water turns into infinite varieties of pap.
—Time Magazine review of Mechanization Takes Command from 1948
Four Freedoms
John Crowley’s new novel, Four Freedoms, is now available for pre-order from Amazon. It’s set in Ponca City, Oklahoma during World War II and follows those who didn’t go to war, examining how their lives and thoughts were changed on the home front.
