REFERENCE Abbr. Mr Eric Partridge’s Dictionary of Abbreviations (Allen and Unwin. 104 pp. 7/6 net.) pays "especial attention to war-time abbreviations.” (N.A.A.F.1., for example, for the Navy, Army, and Air Force Institutes; or flak, from the German FLugsAbwehrKanone, anti, aircraft gun.) But it is otherwise very full, and a most useful, precise guide through the wilderness of the modern Initials—from A.A.A. to Z.S. Maps of U.S.S.R. Edited by George Goodall, Soviet tussia in Maps (George Philip and on Ltd. 32 pp. 2/6 net.) contains an Strtordlnary quantity of general and tailed information on the origins Kd development of modern Russia. 1* Industrial maps are particularly good.".
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23915, 6 April 1943, Page 4
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