Vitamin C Research Highlights Canadian Sources And Prospects
Canadian scientists at the Hospital for Sick Children report tomato breeding may boost vitamin C content, note cherry and grape tomatoes yield double the vitamin C of ordinary types, and warn fertilizers do not affect C levels. They identify green walnuts and milkweed as rich sources and describe marmalade from green walnuts in development.
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Quebec
Toronto
Hospital For Sick Children
Canada
Ontario Agricultural College
United States
Ontario
Australians Thanked by New Guinea Villagers After Rescue
Two Australian airmen grateful for aid from a New Guinea village natives after being fed and guided back to base. They returned the kindness by flying over the village and dropping parcels with supplies and toys.
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New Guinea
Tall Redwood Tales From California
Story from Santa Fe Magazine recounts a humorous encounter with a hollow redwood so large a trailer could not pass, forcing the driver to edge through the hollow branch while a moving van came from the opposite end. The natives take pride in their giant trees and their tall tales.
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California
Santa Fe Magazine
Definition of civilization in the Montreal Star view
The Montreal Star defines civilization as a state where money is taken from women who beautify themselves to fund missionaries abroad who teach the savages not to do the same.
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Montreal Star
Taormina Butchers Display Animal Heads On Staff
Street vendors in Taormina Sicily display animal heads on staffs as a macabre advertisement for their wares drawing crowds and sparking curiosity about local street markets.
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Taormina
Sicily
Industrial might and casualty trends in world wars
The piece contrasts World War I and the current conflict, noting lower deadliness relative to total casualties in the modern war. It attributes changes to faster warfare and industrial capacity, not troop numbers, and praises wartime industrial mobilization. It questions postwar disarmament by stripping Germany and Japan without policing their industries.
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Germany
Japan
Financial Post
Canada’s Canned Meat Feeds Europe War Aid Steadfast
London papers praise Dominion war effort and note Canada’s aid to Allied nations. The article highlights large shipments of canned blood sausage and meat paste from Toronto to UNRRA and military relief, plus plans for canned sausage and kosher beef for MNRRA and Jewish relief in Europe.
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Canada
Europe
Toronto
Winnipeg
Saskatoon
Calgary
Edmonton
Montreal
Vancouver
Meat Board
UNRRA
Britain
The
Royal Navy
Admiralty
Ministry of Food
Floating aerodromes eyed for postwar air transport
Dr. Charles Goodeve reports British experiments with floating airstrips for mid ocean landings have succeeded. Platforms up to 2000 feet long use thousands of linked pontoons to stay level in waves. Development focuses on new alloy steels as Britain expands floating field concepts after the war.
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Charles Goodeve
Admiralty
Goodeve
Canon F. W. Goodeve
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Manitoba University
London University
Remarkable Recovery of Akron Private After Hit by Bullet
PFC Don Langley of Akron Ohio recounts a remarkable recovery after a Japanese machine gun bullet entered his forehead and exited near his left ear. The wound failed to knock him out, and he remains alive and thankful.
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Pfc
Don Langley
Akron
Ohio
Langley
Arctic residents build partly underground houses for winter protection
In the Arctic, many people construct homes partially underground to shield against extreme cold. The practice leverages earth warmth and insulation to improve interior comfort during long winters.
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Arctic
Odd Left-Twisted Snails Riddle Shell Coiling Variation
A small number of snail species coil shells to the left rather than the common right-handed direction. Researchers note this rare reversal occurs in a minority of individuals within populations and may involve genetic factors influencing shell torsion.
Canada to issue twelve sided nickel five cent coin in 1946
Ottawa disclosed in an order in council that Canada will issue a twelve sided nickel five cent piece in 1946. The new coin will be issued in addition to the copper colored nickels from 1942 and the steel coins from 1943 and will be similar in other respects to existing five cent pieces.
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Ottawa
Beginners Crochet Doily Pattern 7055 Offered by Winnipeg Union
Readers learn to crochet a first doily with two sizes 18 and 12 inches and a luncheon set. Pattern 7055 contains directions and stitches and costs twenty cents. send money to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue E Winnipeg Man. Include name address and pattern number.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Meatless Tuesdays and Fridays to save meat in Canada
The prices board estimates public eating places in Canada including restaurants and hotels will save about 1,000,000 pounds of meat every four weeks by adopting meatless Tuesdays and Fridays. Excludes mining and logging camps and hospitals.
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the Prices Board
Canada
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Aberdeen
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Shirley Hughes
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