Canada Builds Minesweepers For War Effort In Shipyard
An eastern Canadian port hosts a shipyard contract turning out minesweepers for Royal Navy and Canadian Navy. Twenty four hulls are under construction, with 1200 workers, heavy presses, and a heat treating unit shaping steel girders into ship ribs. The process features brass wheelhouses, non magnetic parts near compasses, twin Desco engines, and a cost of 600000 dollars per vessel as Canada supports Britain’s naval needs.
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Canada
Royal Navy
Canadian Navy
Steel
Clyde
Scotland
India
Mac
Steen
Desco
Tabor
Britain
Farm Fashion on Wheels Promotes Self-Sufficiency
Clemson Agricultural School retools a traveling train to preach home production of clothing and food. The Better Living Train showcases reversible corduroy coats, gabardine outfits, and dyeing techniques using coffee from farm scraps. It promotes affordable cotton attire, durable workwear, and morale boosting colors for farm families.
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Chicago
University
Clemson Agricultural School
United States
Coltege
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Brighter Storage Picture for Prairie Wheat in 1941
Canadian Grain Board reports expanded storage and higher capacity after 1940 shortages. New elevators and annexes raise usable space to about 571 million bushels, reducing earlier carryover concerns as Western farmers expect a smaller harvest in 1941.
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Charles Gunning
Priter
Canada
Lakehand
Board of Grain Commissioners For Canada
Dominion
New wartime wage rules extend bonuses to more industries
Ottawa reports detail a revised wage stabilization plan including a broad order extending the cost of living bonus to additional employers in building trades and larger private firms while excluding agriculture fisheries hospitals and many educational and religious bodies. The program sets up National and regional War Labor Boards and outlines timelines for bonus payments and increases. A Kirkland Lake dispute tests union recognition as conciliation boards face operators withdrawing over bargaining agency issues. Canada plans to ship the first 15 tanks to the Soviet Union and aims to meet the 100 tank quota by year end with possible British deliveries. Anew feed grain freight subsidy is created to secure Eastern Canada's rations, covering wheat oats barley rye and feed products, with full freight coverage from the lakes eastward to bolster production and British needs. The Canadian Legion urges complete mobilization of resources for wartime production, signaling support for overseas conscription.
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Board of Grain Commissioners
Canada
United States
Lakehead
Pacific Coast
Churchill
Man
Great Lakes
Ottawa
order-In-council
Agriculture
Flehlig
McLarty
Hlad
National War Labor Board
War Labor Boards
Kirkland Lake
Ont
International Mine
MNF and Smelter Workers’ Union
C.I.O
Committee For Industrial Organization
Conciliation Board
Howe
Soviet Union
Dominion
Russia
Britain
Fort Willam
Port Arthur
Armstrong
Head of the Lakes
Burpau
Mackenzie Kinnd
Bontalen Executive Council
The
Canadian Legion
go-Canada
Legion A Atand
Cost of mechanizing war rises from horses to machines
Victor Sifton, Master-General of the Ord nance, compares 1914 18 and modern Canadian divisions. He notes infantry speed dropping from about 20 to 10 mph, horses replaced by thousands of motor vehicles, and yearly costs jumping from tens of millions to over 150 million for an armored division. He cites 1916 17 French corps spending versus armored division costs and highlights the vast increase in material power.
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Canada
Victor Sifton
Ordnance
CBC
Sifton
France
Poronta
Locomotives For Turkey From Britain In Major Shipment
British engineers are building 24 locomotives for Turkey as part of an 68 unit order. Each engine weighs 10614 tons and runs at 70 kmh. In the quarter ending June 20 seven locomotives worth nearly £250,000 were shipped, along with 18 locomotive boilers, total 56 worth about £110,000 for the first half of the year.
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Turkey
Britain
Lace Making Across Britain and America During Wartime
In the Devonshire village Beer lace has a 400 year tradition with orders from the United States helping residents stay productive in war. Makers like Mrs. Ida Allen supply lace for queens and endure age-related hardship while Nottingham mills pursue new designs for overseas markets. Mill wares meet demand from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the Far East with nets, curtains, and decorative fabrics.
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England
Devonshire
Beer
United States
Ida Allen
Queen Mary
Queen Alexandra
Queen Victoria
Thia
Nottingham
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Far East
Palestine
Egypt
Youth appointed to lead Flyde Park allotments outreach
London Agriculture Ministry names 26 year old Barbara Tarver to supervise the made for victory allotments at Flyde Park and advise amateur gardeners on carrot cabbage and onion growing problems.
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London
Agriculture Ministry
Barbara Tarver
Flyde Park
New Window Tech Aims to Stop Bomb Blast Shards
Britain tests three new window protection devices from the Experimental Building Research Station in Waltford. A cellulose acetate netting embedded in protective film blocks wind and rain while maintaining light. A stronger plate glass substitute and a lighter netting version are evaluated, showing shattered glass staying in place under impact.
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Waltford
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