Canada at War The Automotive Industry's War Effort
A tour of Eastern Canadian automotive plants reveals their shift to war production.Factories run 24/7 manufacturing Universal Carriers Artillery Tractors ambulances and more while supplying the British Empire and front lines with motors and armament. The article details plant sizes, capacity, and the move from civilian output to nearly exclusive war work.
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Canada
Army
Air Force
Navy
Universal
Britain
Roos
Inc
Tme
Ita
Cca
British Empire
Fall Planting Spring Blooms
Ottawa gardening notes urge fall planting to gain a head start on spring blooms. Plant hardy bulbs and shrubs, cover late flowers, burn diseased tops, stake new trees, clean up beds, and plant grass for cold weather growth and weed control.
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Dame Nature
People of Hull Heroes to Queen
Queen Elizabeth and the King visited wartime Hull, touring bombed districts and meeting air raid heroes and residents whose homes were destroyed. A woman answered the King’s question about living there with a terse reply. the Queen called Hull one of the worst district towns in the country.
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Hull
England
Elizabeth
Buckingham Palace
Make Old Furs Work for You In New Shape
An Associated Press fashion feature advises transforming old furs into chic new pieces. Women are urged to repurpose coats into jackets and capes, add color, and create items like fur bags and gloves. Designers showcase inventive uses such as colored fox accents and elastic sleeve pas, all preserving fur value.
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New York
Aimple
Almple
Gas masks stay in fashion as government fits pads
London reports gas masks remain widely used with new pads supplied by the government to improve fit for thin-faced wearers. The program aims to ensure better protection as wartime concerns continue.
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London
Widow Fined For Refused Evacuee During Bombing
A 30-year-old widow in Stratton on the Frith declined to accept a bombed city grandmother and two children into her seven room house and was fined £15. The incident reflects wartime evacuation tensions in Eng. with cost and care considerations.
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Stratton-On-Floss
Eng
C. P
Week at Ottawa outlines wartime policy shifts
Prime Minister Mackenzie King signals sweeping wartime reforms including a broad price ceiling plan on processed goods to curb inflation. Finance Minister Viola Desmond… The piece notes grain aid for prairie farmers and Eastern Canada, a uniform wages policy talk, and a naval commission ruling on the Arvida strike.
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Ottawa
Canada
Mackenzie King
King
Ft Wu
Yisley Haw
Aida
Wan
Labor
McLarty
Naval Commission
Chicoutimi
Que
Arvida
Aluminum Company of Canada
Severin Letourneau
W. L- Bond
Quebec
Ilegal
Defence Department
Armed Services
War Service and Enlistment Badges Described
The text outlines badge names for veterans and rejected applicants. Honorably discharged personnel receive the War Service Badge General Service Class while those refused enlistment obtain an Applicant for Enlistment badge.
Fibre Flax Seen as Profitable Fraser Valley Cash Crop
The Agriculture Department says fibre flax could become a profitable cash crop across the Fraser Valley in British Columbia pending harvesting and milling improvements. In 1941 the crop yielded well on about 80 acres with 80 percent rated highly satisfactory, though some losses traced to identifiable causes.
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Ottawa
Fraser Valley
British Columbia
Agriculture Department
Franer
Lower
M. F. Clarke
Dominion Experimental Farm
Agasalz
B.C
Fire chief in Auckland jailed for arson and probation
Supt. B. C. Edwards aged 27 admitted arson to "show rivals" what his brigade could do. He started fires in three buildings, one destroyed. He pleaded guilty, received three years probation and a three year suspension from the brigade.
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Auckland
N.Z
B. C. Edwards
Radio as wartime weapon and control system
An early overview describes how Britain extends radio location to detect aircraft and plot positions through multiple beams, forming an interconnected network to reveal any approach. It highlights fog-landing prevention, radio controlled flight trials in Britain and the United States, and the use of radio to coordinate tank formations from centralized bases.
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Britain
America
United States Army Air Corps
Radio advances boost portable train receiver use in warfare
New miniature valves enable a truly portable train receiver, now deployed by the army for field and coastal defence communications. Each technical advance increases radio use in war, with the British radio industry at the fore.
Quislings Doomed Under Exile Authority
In London King Haakon and the government in exile authorize the death penalty for Norwegians who aid Nazi criminals. The measure targets collaborators in German occupied Norway and elsewhere, signaling harsh penalties for treachery.
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London
Haakon
Norway
Sugar Beets in Skane Reported High Sugar Content
In southern Skane the sugar beet crop is reported as average in size with high sugar content, despite overall Swedish crops remaining below normal.
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Stockholmn
Sweden
Skane
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Adon
Alan Harvey
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Owen
Winnipeg
Gray
Acton
WAR Savings Committee
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