Man power metals boost vital supplies for war effort
Science provides finer materials to make faster lighter planes and stronger engines. Magnesium and beryllium copper alloys improve toughness while plastics replace some metals. Ford highlights drastic reductions in aluminum magnesium nickel and tungsten use, freeing metals for defense. Postwar, engineers expect lighter, tougher, more efficient vehicles and tools across industries.
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Teel
Dent UW
America
Ford
Alda
City Mutual Life Society Annual Meeting War era notes
The sixty fourth annual meeting on June 16 at Hunter street Head Office heard chairman William Bennett laud wartime efforts and unity. He highlighted £850,000 contributed to wartime finance, about 74,000 policies totaling £28,000,000 in sum assured, and £980,278 yearly premiums. The mutual society paid no dividends. most agency staff serve in war. War claims fell by £71,000 versus 191 mortality. £850,000 for Commonwealth Loans in 1942 and £600,000 for the Third Liberty Loan this year were noted. Plans included housing finance to ease shortages and potential bonus certificates for policyholders amid low interest and high taxation.
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City Mutual Life Assurance Society, Limited
Hunter-street
Ney
William Bennett
City Mutual Life Office
Commonwealth
Audy
Home and School Market Gardening Competition Focus
By courtesy of the Department of Agriculture officials the following matter on vegetable growing prepared by Mr. E. T. Morgan of the Potato Branch is supplied to competitors. Best wishes for a successful effort and helpful guidance in the contest.
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Department of Agriculture
E. T. Morgan
Gardening Rules For Vegetable Plots In Competition
The article outlines comprehensive vegetable gardening guidance for competition plots. It covers soil preparation with stable or cow manure, pre sowing digging, gradual fertiliser use, weed and pest control, and organic matter to improve moisture. It stresses deep root growth, regular top dressings, mulching, watering timing, and careful irrigation to prevent surface drying and disease.
Pie Shop Quip Keeps Diners Guessing About Oysters
An ageless diner quips about tasting oysters at dinner and questions freshness as a waitress asks if they should be opened. The impatient customer jokes about age and appearance, prompting playful banter over plain service.
Infantry Decisive Force in Modern Warfare
Quote from Sunday News argues air power remains limited and infantry remains decisive in land warfare. It stresses that Allied victory depends on superior land strength and breaking the enemy's will, not magic, with emphasis on persistent, silent war.
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Q.Y
Sunday News
Golden Mile gold output tops twenty six million ounces
Kalgoorlie's Golden Mile now yields more than 26,000,000 ounces with bulk production centered in the richest square mile. Early prospectors Pearce and Brackman helped locate ore bodies. a small Adelaide syndicate and its shares and cash dealings are noted. The report discusses policy liabilities, reserve strengthening, staff reductions due to war service, and the board’s balance sheet actions, including a modest contingency reserve and bonuses. The annual report is adopted amid war-era staffing strains and financial prudence.
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Kalgoorlie
Golden Mile
Pearce
Brackman
Adelaide
Lake View
Great Boulder
Ivanhoe
Oroya-Browngill
Boundary Horseshoe
Ivanhoe East
Spectacular Civil Air Patrol Teams Do Vital War Aid60
The Civil Air Patrol with about 70,000 volunteers operates in all 48 states through wings squadrons and flights at over 1 000 air ports. They log up to 500 000 miles in a week, patrols using sport planes not built for combat, and assist in protecting Atlantic and Gulf shipping while crediting U boats destruction remains a military secret as per Christian Science Monitor.
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Civil Air Patrol
U.S. Office of Civilian Defence
Atlantic
Gulf
Christian Science Monitor
Facts and Figures From the 8th Air Force Bomber Command
The 8th Air Force Bomber Command reports 356 German fighters destroyed at the cost of 9 four engined American bombers. This yields a ratio of 32 German fighters per American bomber, a figure the service calls not good. The claim notes each Fortress or Liberator loss writes off three key crew roles and highlights German pilots often survive even when their planes are shot to pieces.
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8Th Air Force Bomber Command
Tank Warfare Report From War Front
World Telegram war correspondent Ernie Py notes that many tanks catch fire but crews usually escape quickly and return to camp after tailed incidents. Fire spreads rapidly, yet most crews manage to exit and regroup.
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Sanane Warlape
Norn Vance Fas
Ernie Py
Scientific Developments From U S Office of Production Research
The U S Office of Production Research and Development now operates under Dr Donald B Keyes. The agency aims to speed war industry tech advances with several funded projects including chlorine and nitric acid production, alcohol fermentation from rye wheat, and conversion of wood to sugar. Other potential lines such as glycerin, formaldehyde, and acetylene are encouraged but unfunded.
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U.S
Hornet Nest Studied Through Window at Missouri Home
Charles Witte of Poplar Bluff Missouri allowed a close view of a bald faced hornet nest built on a window pane last summer. The nest shows cross sections of the insects life cycle and is described by entomologist Phil Raw of St. Louis as the only known example of its kind on record.
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Charles Witte
Poplar Blur
Witte
Phil Raw
St. Louis
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