Canada Builds Minesweepers as War Effort Accelerates
A Canadian shipyard doubles down on war work with twenty four minesweepers, six for the Royal Navy and eighteen for Canada. The yard, once a junkyard, now employs 1200 workers around the clock, with a full-scale plan process, heavy presses, and a heat treating unit. Each ship features twin Desco engines, brass wheelhouses, and extensive armament, costing about 600000 dollars, reflecting Canada’s vital role in convoy protection and Britain’s sea dominance.
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Canada
Royal Navy
Canadian Navy
Steel
Clyde
Scotland
India
Mac
New Comforts Style Helps Farm Folk On Travelling Train
A Clemson Agricultural School training train promotes self sufficiency in clothing and food. Simple cotton outfits and reversible coats in red corduroy and gabardine pair with khaki caps and red boots for rain and style. The Better Giving Train showcases inexpensive cottons for the whole family with multiple mix and match pieces and coffee dyed yarn trims for bright farming fashion.
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Chicago
University
Clemson Agricultural School
United States
Coltege
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Storage Picture A Brighter View Than Last Year's
Western farmers face a brighter storage picture than in 1940 as grain companies pools and farmers added capacity. Canada reports storage will handle all farm deliveries despite a large carryover, with new elevators annexes to country elevators and terminals in the west and east. Carryover at year end 463,000,060 bushels contrasts with 281,000,600 the prior year, while western production in 1940 reached 526,000,000 bushels and current harvest estimates run around 275–286 million. Overall in storage or in transit about 480,000,000 bushels in Canada and the U S, with major shares in western elevators and lakehead terminals.
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Charles Gunning
Priter
Canada
Board of Grain Commissioners For Canada
Dominion
Bonary of Grain Commissioners
United States
Lakehead
Pacific Coast
Churchill
Man
Great Lakes
Canada wartime wage order expands exemptions and boards
The Ottawa briefing outlines a new wage stabilization order extending compulsory cost of living bonuses to fewer employers, with specific carve outs for agriculture, fisheries, hospitals, religious, charitable, and educational bodies. It also details schedules for bonus adjustments and the creation of national and regional war labor boards. It notes a Kirkland Lake mine dispute testing conciliation boards, Canada’s tank production momentum for the Soviet Union, and federal grain freight assistance to Eastern Canada aimed at beefing up feed stocks. The Canadian Legion pushes for total mobilization and overseas conscription.
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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
Canada
Howe
Soviet Union
Dominion
Russia
Britain
Raton
Fort Willam
Port Arthur
Armstrong
Head of the Lakes
Urpan
Ee Mackenzile Kinnd
Bentalen
Canadian Legion
Legion
Costs Of Modern War Machinery Rise In Canada
Vic tor Sifton says every dollar spent on armament in the last war yields five now. He cites 1914-18 infantry divisions moving on foot, versus today with up to 3,500 motor vehicles per division and annual division costs rising from 30–48 million to about 86 million. Armored divisions cost roughly 155 million yearly, while the entire 1916-17 Canadian corps cost 143 million. A single armored division yields 394,237 horsepower, matching the electrical output of a city.
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Canada
Victor Sifton
Ordnance
CBC
Sifton
France
Poronta
Locomotives For Turkey Shipment From Britain
British locomotive engineers are building 24 engines for Turkey as part of an order for 68. Each engine weighs 10614 tons and runs at 70 kmh. In the June quarter Britain sent 34 locomotives overseas valued near £250000, plus 18 locomotive boilers totaling 56 units valued about £110000 for the first half of the year.
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British Locomotive Engineers
Turkey
Britain
Lace From Beer England In wartime fashion among American women
Hand made lace from the Devonshire village of Beer supports inhabitants for 400 years of lace crafts. Many makers are over 80. Ida Allen has 50 years in the trade and has supplied lace for Queen Victoria era weddings and modern royal figures.
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England
Devonshire
Beer
United States
Ida Allen
Queen Mary
Queen Alexandra
Queen Victoria
Nottingham
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Far East
Palestine
Egypt
26 year old appointed to lead Fyde Park allotments
The Agriculture Ministry appoints Barbara Tarver, age 26, to supervise the Fyde Park dig-for-victory allotment and advise amateur gardeners on carrot cabbage and onion growing problems.
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London
Agriculture Ministry
Barbara Tarver
Fyde Park
Windows for Air Raids Blasts Tested at Experimental Station
The British Government's Experimental Building Research Station at Waltford tested three window shields to protect glass during air raids. One uses netted cellulose acetate film to block shards, another employs heavier plate glass, and a lighter netting device adheres to panes. A test with a spring hammer showed glass shards stayed held under the netting.
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Waltford
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Hitler
Frank “Knobby” Clark
Michael Lebas
Uplands
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