Christmas Cakes From Wartime Kitchens A Family Guide
A wartime kitchen urges keeping Christmas spirit with bakeable fruit cakes and cookies. It lists several old recipes from 1942 including Dundes Cake English pudding and fruit cake variations, with ingredients and oven instructions, plus tips for selecting and preparing dried fruits and toppings. The feature also mentions Claire Wallace and a CBC program They Tell Me returning to the Trans Canada network.
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Claire Wallace
CBC
Heavy fine for violation of wartime paper quotas
Magazine Direat Co. Ltd was fined 10000 on five charges of breaches of Wartime Prices and Trade Board regulations for using and purchasing paper beyond its permit. In 1944 it used 162 tons over quota and exceeded purchases by 278 tons while admitting false statements about tonnage. Special Prosecutor J Robinette called it first publisher violation and urged heavy penalty.
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Digeat Publishing Co. Ltd
Trade Board
WPTB
Direat Co
J. Robinette
K.C
Canada
Mr. Robinette
Matchstick Game Tricks and Winning Strategy
A simple two player matchstick puzzle is explained. Players remove one to three matches per turn aiming to force the opponent to take the last match. The strategy centers on leaving nine then five matches to the opponent, with the first player able to win by applying the trick.
Homefront reflections and a distant Christmas in wartime
The writer describes hosting tensions with family over a weekend visit and snowbound plans, a son overseas in England awaiting leave, and anticipation of letters and the wartime grind. The piece closes with a CP item: reports Brazil and the United States nearing a rubber trade deal exchanging crude for synthetic.
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Rio DE Janeiro
United States
Brazil
Budget Gift Tips For Seasonal Shopping And Rejections
Budget constraints guide Christmas shopping with age and taste considerations for recipients. Suggestions include makeup kits, perfume, leather travel kits, and compact wardrobes. London wartime note cites Trunk Exchange operators handling 150 million calls during raids.
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Granny
Angerle
London
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