Civilian Airlift Opens Knob Lake Ore Strip
The Iron Ore Company of Canada launches the world’s first civilian airlift to develop Knob Lake mines 320 miles north of Seven Islands Quebec. Heavy equipment, camps, power dams, a 350 mile railroad, bridges and roads must be built from scratch as top grade ore reserves dwindle and defense production ramps up.
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Quebec
Labrador
Iron Ore Company of Canada
Knob Lake
St. Lawrence River
Seven Islands
U.S
Seven Talands
Blanche Thebom career spans opera to film
Thebom rushed from Paris to Hollywood to appear in The Great Caruso with Mario Lanza and sang four songs in the film. She now vacationed in Canada and planned a Fall concert tour at the Metropolitan Opera, having founded the Blanche Thebom Scholarship Foundation in 1949 to aid aspiring singers.
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Blanche Thebom
Paris
Hollywood
Great Caruso
Mario Lanza
Canada
Metropolitan Opera
Canton
Ohio
The
Met
Pie Craving and a Dog's Dangerous Chase End in Tragedy
In Collinsville Julia and Bud worry over Pinky the dog who chases cars. Bud's care and Mark's soft heart clash as a preventable accident unfolds. A pie bake frames a tense domestic scene before Pinky meets a fatal crash and burial in a wooden box.
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Alia
Warren
Bud
Pinky
Pinky A
Julia
Collinsville
Mark
Pinky Yard Marked With Bud's First Memorial Stone
Julia places a marker with Pinky s name in the ground as Bud watches. The family gathers for a quiet dinner and Julia seeks air to visit Helen Reynolds. Bud learns to remember, not forget, a loss that will linger in his young mind for years.
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Julia
Pinky
Bud
Mark
Helen Reynolds
Rowe
Crossword Puzzle Last Week's Answer Be Across
A fragment from a crossword puzzle list shows clues and partial answers for Across and Down. Items include 1A desert mammal 6 Lean-to 10 A pointed arch 11 Long-eared rodent 12 Hummed 13 Forearm bone 14 Work 15 Following 16 Exist 17 Cram 19 Division of a play 21 Cloyed 28 Tempeat 28 Weave rope 29 Regard 31 Convert into leather 32 The sallow 36 Take ag one's own 39 Rascal 41 Son of Jacob 42 City 43 Leave out 44 Bhore recesa 46 Broad 46 Piece of rock 1 Amends 2 Eager.
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Jacob
City
Tex
Broad
Eager
Grassroots Russia Lurks in Iran Oil Row
An article discusses Iran’s dispute with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, urging U S mediation. It argues England and Iran clash over profit sharing, nationalization, and the risk of Russia gaining control of Iran’s vast oil capacity, with implications for U S and Allied interests. It notes Dean Acheson as mediator and warns of broader geopolitical stakes in Iran’s oil.
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Russia
Iran
Wright A. Patterson
Iran-Anglo Oil Company
Truman
Dean Acheson
Tran-Anglo' Ol Company
England
Tran
Eng
Acheson
Brannan Suggests Naming Tater Bug Russian Beetle
Vienna reports U S Secretary of Agriculture Charles F Brannan joked at a news conference that the Colorado potato beetle should be renamed the Russian beetle. He commented amid Communist charges last year that U S planes dropped potato bugs in Hungary and Czechoslovakia while on an inspection tour of European agricultural projects.
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Vienna
Austria
Charles F. Brannan
U.S
Colorado
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Europe
Bull Calf Trios Ski Jump Stuns Frederikstad
In Frederikstad, Norway, a bull calf reportedly achieved the first successful ski jump. The calf walked onto the Oega jump, sat on its haunches, slid 40 feet, landed cleanly on three points, then shook off and trotted away.
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Oslo
Norway
Frederikstad
Pigeons Return to Roost at El Toro Marine Station
At El Toro California a loft hosts a pigeon bearing a navy service band born in 1843. Sergeant Tonsley notes the bird shows no prior pigeons at the station since 1946 when the war era Navy use ended.
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EL Toro
Calif
John BE. Tonsley
Marine Air Station
Navy
Ants in Feathers Mystify Birds Says Smithsonian Bulletin
Washington report describes how hermit thrushes and other small North American thrushes place live ants in their feathers to repel feather lice. Birds seize ants under wings, crush them, or rub juices on plumage. Theories include pest repellent formic acid and possible health benefits. Bent praises hermit thrush as a superb songster with a rich but rarely heard solo woodland repertoire.
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Washington, D.C
Arthur Cleveland Bent
Smithsonian Institution
Bent
Typhoid Epidemic Reported in Thuringia by Telegraf
Berlin report says over 1,000 people infected in the Russian zone of Thuringia. Telegraf notes camps and theaters closed and public gatherings banned. Soviet papers did not mention the outbreak. The epidemic reportedly spread across a wide area.
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Berlin
Germany
West Berlin
Telegraf
Thuringia
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