Author: Danielle Oser

  • TIME CAPSULE: Adult clothing

    TIME CAPSULE:Adult clothing made its wartime adjustment primarily in the promotion of fashions that used less fabric, heedless of the implication that new fashion guidelines implied new clothes. For example, the cuffs on men”™s pants were eliminated to save fabric, but then many men let their old pants hang in the closet to buy the…

  • Nursing at the Nation’s Service

    Source: “Nursing at the Nation”™s Service.” The American Journal of Nursing, June 1942, pp. 611”“612. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3415977?origin=JSTOR-pdf

  • The Nazi Goal: Oil and More Oil

    Source: “The Nazi Goal: Oil and More Oil.” Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, the Evening News, 1 June 1942, p. 2. https://www.newspapers.com/article/wilkes-barre-times-leader-the-evening-n/127862566/

  • Bombers – A Thousand of Them – Over Cologne and Essen

    Source: “Bombers – A Thousand of Them – Over Cologne and Essen.” Muncie Evening Press, 2 June 1942, p. 8. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119915658/

  • Penicillin Is High As Germ Killer

    Source: “Penicillin Is High As Germ Killer.” The Morning Post, 4 June 1942, p. 16. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-post/137921396/

  • News of Pearl Harbor Marines

    Source: Roehlk, Glenn A. “News of Pearl Harbor Marines.” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 4 June 1942, p. 4. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120100129/

  • Downtown District Evacuation is Urged

    Source: “Downtown District Evacuation Is Urged.” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 4 June 1942, p. 5. https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/128053544/ https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/128053878/ https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/128053809/

  • Thousands Get Bunny Masks On First Day

    Source: “Thousands Get Bunny Masks On First Day.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 5 June 1942, p. 4. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/127248302/

  • Victory Gardens – By the Right Gardeners

    Source: “Victory Gardens – By the Right Gardeners.” Business Week, 6 June 1942, p. 68.