Canada War Effort Highlights Canada’s Lend Lease Role
Canada is portrayed as America’s top wartime ally and major supplier. The article tallies Canada’s production leadership in aluminum nickel asbestos lead zinc mercury tungsten and newsprint, plus vast munitions armor plating guns and small arms. It notes women in the armed forces signaling and radar work, and credits Canada with training and aircraft support for Britain and the Allies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
America
United States
United Nations
Pallie
Gov't
Films for Fighting Men keeps troops in touch with home
Army Overseas Motion Picture service ships new Hollywood films to combat zones where 16 mm gifts are shown nightly to uniformed troops, wounded, and isolated outposts. With 189 weekly prints across three programs, the effort aims to boost morale, featuring musicals and light drama while avoiding repeats and war pictures, though older films occasionally surface due to wartime supply limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Army Overseas Motion Picture Service
Hom
New York City
War Department
Havy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Red Cross
USO
Army Motion Picture Service
Navy
Army
Sawdust Alcohol Method Faces WPB Hurdles
A German developed process to distill alcohol from sawdust and wood waste is stalled by WPB officials in the United States. Despite testing at a U S forest service plant and plans for a Willamette Oregon commercial site, bureaucratic blocks, FBI checks, and credential issues delay the project amid wartime alcohol shortages. Meanwhile Allied bomber strategy targets German industry, with air power experts noting ground avoidance by Luftwaffe and the impact of precision bombing. The Merry-Go-Round column notes a slow-down at the U S Quartermaster corps and wrestler Dean at Camp Ritchie rising to sergeant while trimming weight.
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Washington, D
War Production Board
Germany
U. S. Forest Service
Marquette
Wis
Willamette
Vulcan Copper and Supply Company
J. Alfred Hall
Forest Service
WPB
Office of Production Research and Development
Oregon
Alcohol Division
WEB
Atlantic Seaboard
WPRB
Levy
England
WPER
FBI
U. S
Europe
Luftwaffe
Air Forces
Air Power
RAF
Luftswaffe
U. S. Quartermaster Corps
Dean
Camp Ritchie
Mid
Iosine
Army Morale Films Reach Pacific Fronts in War Time
Soldiers on Pacific islands see more than 40 first run films weekly through Army service forces. Major General Frederick Osborn notes morale programs include G Y Movies and Screen Magazine. On Guadalcanal 164 shows in one night. at Finsehhafan New Guinea three films for thousands. Movies travel by plane boat jeep and mobile units tour remote areas. A waterlogged foxhole soldier may view a premiere from Radio City style venues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific Theater
Frederick H. Osborn
U. & Army
Morale Services Division
Army Service Forces
Overseas
Motion Picture Service of
Pacific
New Guinea
Osborn
Army
Tropica
Pacific Islands
Screen
Army Service
U. S
Frederick Osborn
Morale Services
Guadalcanal
Finsehhafan
Radio City
New York
Roses Stenciled on Old Furniture Pattern No. 260
Old furniture and odds and ends become roses with blue and pink stencils. A Boston rocker, window shade, tin tray, lamp base from a milk can, and more are painted in cream or blue with rose motifs. Pattern No. 260 includes large, medium, and vine designs offered by mail for 15 cents.
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Boston
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Hitler
Poland
Signal Corps
U.S
Australia
MacKenzie King
Shipshaw
Niagara Falls
Great Boulder Dam
Royal Canadian Air Force
Royal Air Force
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Berlin
Picture Industry
South Sea
Pearl Harbor
South Pacific
Sicily
Mussolini
Italy
Motion
Brehon Somervell
Ireclaime Windok
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford
Michigan
Brooklyn
N.Y
Wiz
Kiles
Prem Vat
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Hadth
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