Ottawa clipping notes wartime measures and economic shifts
A weekly editor surveys Ottawa clippings noting high speed cheque machines disbursing income tax refunds at about 800 daily, a Crown company plan to centralize surplus disposal, salary payments delayed before Christmas for thousands of workers, and updates on debt, convicts, subsidies, and wartime production trends. It highlights manpower, lumber subsidies, and embassies reflecting wartime economy.
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Ottawa
National Revenue
Munitions Department
Treasury Board
Canada
Where Do They Come From In Wartime Canada
An opinion piece argues urban crowding stems from wartime pull factors as rural areas lose population. It notes Saskatchewan and Ontario towns shrinking, city migrants aging and seeking relief, and farms aging workers. The author urges a fixed immigration policy to repopulate rural Canada and avert food shortages in 1943.
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Canada
Cites
Saskatchewan
Ontario
Winnipeg
United States
Postwar plans outlined by Mr Hughes Cleaver at Halton
Mr Hughes Cleaver of Halton County presents Canada's postwar challenges and government measures. He details four main war consequences to tackle: peacetime employment and pensions, retooling war industries, farm surplus disposal, and war debt reduction, plus broader issues of wealth distribution and agricultural policy. He argues for planned housing, tax strategy, and social security to secure a prosperous postwar era.
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Hughes Cleaver
Halton County
Canada
Cleaver
Canadas
Bacon
Nwell
Hood
Ife
People of
Toastmaster
Propio
Tiwan
Traud
Church- Hut
Roosevelt
Great Britain
Australia
U.S.A
Luntil
Immidinico
Tfe
Price Rise for Export Bacon Approved by Meat Board
The Meat Board announced a 75 cent per hundredweight increase for export bacon to the United Kingdom effective November 15. A Grade No 1 Wiltshire bacon rises from 21.95 to 22.70 per 100 lb fob Canada. other grades and export cuts also rise. The move follows a British two year bacon agreement under negotiation since October 22.
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United Nations
Atlantic
Germany
Canada
Saskatchewan
Newfoundland
United States
Wunsda
Dominion
British Columbia
United Kingdom
Scetober
Keela
St. Lawrence
Meat Board
Gardiner
Ministry of Food
Ytng
Cotton gains pace in India amid wartime cultivation push
New Delhi reports accelerated progress in cultivating superior cotton variation. The war aids producing a better balance of various cotton types. Chester England reports a Civil Defence exercise: eighty tons of bombs in fireworks form dropped by four waves of planes around Chester Cathedral to simulate a concentrated raid.
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New Delhi
India
Chester
England
Cheater Cathedral
Cure for smoking touted by Lancet as only effective method
The Lancet says hypnotic suggestion is the only effective cure for smoking and that no drug or chemical can reliably induce a distaste for smoking. In Pretoria, South Africa, the treasury funds a soil and veldt conservation film propaganda campaign to combat soil erosion through the Agriculture Department.
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Pretoria
Union of [South Africas Treasury
Department of Agriculture
Weather Forecast by Airwomen Aid Operational Success
A wartime Weather Service report credits air women and the Women's Auxiliary Air Force with crucial forecasts guiding missions. It cites a Whitley bomber incident where choosing to descend to 3,000 and then 2,000 feet helped regain control and complete the task.
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IAF
Met
America
Waal
RAF
Coastal Command
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Manitoba
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Washington
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Heo Ure
CUC
Toronto
Jeutd Winds
Jean Howard
Vancouver
Marcelle Harthe
Montreal
Montes May
Jon Marshall
St. John
Ethelwyn Hobbew
Post Office
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