Government Drives Substitutes From Farm Crops For War Needs
The Agriculture Department launches an open season on all farm products to develop substitutes for rubber oil and other critical materials. Peoria lab reports semi commercial butylene glycol from grain enabling synthetic rubber work, with butadiene yields promising though still in pilot stages. Soybeans provide a rubber like substitute and a strong protein source for casein while sweet potatoes supply starch and mucilage for stamps and envelopes.
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Department of Agriculture
Peoria, Til
Agriculture Department
Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry and Engineering
Bureau of Plant Industry
Pearl Harbor
China
Far East
Department
Walter H. Waggoner
Wall Street Journal
Churchill Prepares His Own War Memoir At Speed
Prime Minister Churchill plans a personal war memoir to publish after victory. He uses a team of student researchers to compile facts and figures, then dictates from notes at remarkable speed. The manuscript is set with wide margins and heavily corrected in his bold handwriting awaiting release.
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Churchill
Pineapple Doilies Pattern for Home Crochet
Doilies feature pineapple design to beautify homes with simple crochet. Pattern 6990 provides instructions, illustrations, stitches and materials. send 20 cents to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave. Winnipeg Man. Include name address and pattern number. A colonial belief claimed daily potato consumption would shorten life to seven years. Transparent steel sheets thinner than paper support scientific instrument manufacture.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Paddy Finucane the RAF ace dies in Channel crash
Britain mourns wing commander Paddy Finucane at 21 after his Spitfire failed in the English Channel during a low level attack on German targets in France. His plane sank after a radiator was shot, and his last radio message was this is it chaps. The Dublin born hero was credited with 32 destroyed German aircraft and more likely higher, leaving a legend in Britain.
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Britain
Brendan
Paddy
Finucane
RAF
English Channel
Luftwaffe
Dublin
Paddy Finucane
France
England
R.A.F
Buffalo Courier-Express
Pen nib makers shift to war work in Britain
Pen nibs crucial for tanks and aircraft now supply munition works and government departments, with output dropping from 460 kinds to 64. Mapping pens aid Royal Ordnance Survey, nine in ten Britain's pen makers moved to munitions. one 85 year old former pen nib worker now helps with aircraft parts.
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Britain
Royal Ordnance Survey
Protection Of Britain in Sea Power Debate
London Evening Standard notes that Britain must maintain sea power despite aviation advances. It argues the main wartime commerce remains maritime and without sea power Britain becomes a condemned island among the United Nations, despite American Pacific victories.
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Britain
United Nations
Pacific
London Evening Standard
Dive Bombers Lose Edge With New Battle Tactics
RAF adapts aircraft to fighter bombing roles while dive bombers face limits against fighters and flak. Manning Depot airmen read non fiction, preferring navigation and Europe histories as Luftwaffe shifts to fighter bombers and Britain anticipates American dive bombers aiding submarine lanes.
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Ritish
Winston Churchill
Royal Air Force
R.A.F
Stuka
Luftwaffe
Western Desert
Britain
America
Pretty Thick Hide
A description of diverse animals across sea, streams, land, and underground, numbering in the millions with weights from four tons to microscopic. The hippopotamus is highlighted as one of the largest with a ten foot long stomach and an inch thick hide.
Working Old Mines Canadian Engineers Prospecting For Tin In Cornwall
The Royal Canadian Engineers reopen ancient Cornish tin mines in Cornwall England to secure tin supplies after Malaya’s fall. Lt A O Ames of Winnipeg leads tunnelling sapper detachment, using Canadian mine equipment to reopen a large 1838 1930 operated mine. Ames previously mined gold in Canada and worked in Fiji before joining the RCE.
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Cornwall
England
Royal Canadian Engineers
Lieut
A. O Ames
Winnipeg
Gibraltar
Malaya
Lieut. Ames
Canada
Fiji
The
RCE
Women pass battle inoculation drill with calm resolve
Joyce Hannibells, aged 17, leads a night spotter post at a gun site and directs crews during a live ammunition exercise. Other women in a West Surrey Home Guard unit join a mobile ambulance crew in the test, crawling under fire without flinching.
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Joyce Hannibells
Home Guard
West Surrey
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Mt MacPherson
Columbia River
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