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Childhood friends reconnect after World War II, Japanese internment separated them

2014-12-07 22:04:20| Beverages - Topix.net

One April morning in 1942, George Fellows walked to Washington Middle School just as he did on any other school day, daydreaming about what he and his seventh-grade chums would do for fun when they didn't have to study. But something was amiss at school this particular morning.

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15 World War II Posters: America Recycles for War

2014-10-15 16:20:00| Waste Age

Posters encouraged citizens to reduce, re-use and recycle read more

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Allentown firm supplies barbed wire for allies in World War I - Almanac Oct. 2, 2014

2014-10-03 14:58:12| Steel - Topix.net

In 2013 : Overloaded websites and jammed phone lines frustrated consumers for a second day as they tried to sign up for coverage using new health insurance exchanges 100 years ago today: World War wire: "When people read of the barb wire entanglements of the battlefields of Europe, or of the entanglements charged with electricity for the confinement of prisoners of war, few of them know that the wire was made in Allentown. When the war broke out the Allentown wire mill, which is a part of the United States Steel Corporation, shut down suddenly, throwing out of work thousands of skilled workers.

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World navies begin Exercise Kakadu war drills at sea

2014-09-05 01:00:00| Naval Technology

Maritime personnel from the Asia Pacific and Indian Ocean regions have successfully completed the initial sea phase of the 23rd Kakadu maritime warfare exercise being conducted by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in Darwin.

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