Patriot War Savings Quiz Questions and Points
A scanned WWII era quiz asks Canadians to rate their willingness to invest in War Savings Certificates and Bonds. It includes multiple choice and yes or no prompts on personal sacrifice, inflation awareness, volunteering with War Finance Committees, pride in supporting the war, and belief in government financial policy behind the war effort.
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Navy
Army
Air Force
Canada
Hitler
Winnipeg Free Press
Lifeboats Built From Global Woods Fuel Service Record
British lifeboats, 51 foot vessels weighing under 27 tons, rescued nearly 50,000 from Dunkirk evacuation and saved over 4,000 sailors since the war began. Wood from the British Empire forms the hull with English oak teak Burma and Honduras mahogany decking. Lifeboat design by William Woodhave is self righting, emptying water in 25 seconds, powered by a heavy keel.
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Britain
Dunkirk
British Empire
Dominion
Honduras
William Woodhave
Woodhave
Upper
Burma
Gifts From Canada Help Air Raid Victims in Northern Ireland
Rt Hon William Grant minister of public security in the Northern Ireland House of Commons voiced gratitude for Canadian gifts aiding air raid victims. He thanked donors for items including mobile careens clothing and cooking utensils which provided substantial help.
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Northern Ireland
Canada
William Grant
House of Commons
Ring Price Gaffe as Two Whistles Define Worth
A man eager to propose enters a jeweler and asks the price of a diamond ring. The jeweler names one hundred guineas. The man then points to another ring and asks its price, receiving the reply that it costs two whistles.
Queen Gives Mothers and Children Joy Ride on Thames
Two hundred fifty mothers and children evacuated from London's East End were taken on a Thames trip to Windsor. They cheered for a benefactor they believed to be a generous woman, not knowing she was Queen Elizabeth II who arranged the outing for a happy day.
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East End
London
Windsor
Thames
Paper Plastics May Replace Metal In Aircraft Parts
McDonnell Aircraft reports successful experiments with laminated paper plastics for wing tips rudders elevators and other parts. An experimental tip tested to 2,800 pounds was lighter and 40 percent stronger than aluminum while offering easier finishing and lower manufacturing pressures. The project involves a plastics maker a paper company and the forest products laboratory and aims at readying production.
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McDonnell Aircraft Corporation
Compaq
Pulp and Paper
United States Forest Products Laboratory
Inarticulate Service Reveals Merchant Sailors Valor
A published narrative based on survivor testimony portrays merchant seamen facing peril in wartime. It highlights the Jervis Bay’s stand against the German battleship and a daring crew boarding a blazing tanker to save the convoy.
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Royal Navy
Mercantile Marine
Jervis Bay
Nazi mother sent boots to son in Russian mud
A German story reports a mother sending a pair of boots to her son trapped in the Russian frontline. The son replies that the boots were delicious and expresses gratitude despite the hardship.
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Germany
British National Anthem Tale From Italian Prison Camp
A Royal Army Medical Corps prisoner repatriated from Sidi Rezegh tells how camp guards in Sercigliano misread the prisoners singing God Save the King as a popular song. The piece notes many redeem war savings certificates, urging restraint as it widens government costs and clerical work.
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Royal Army Medical Corps
Sidi Rezegh
Sercigliano
Italy
London
Gentle care tips for aluminum cookware under wartime rules
D P Cruickshank enforces metal pan production limits while wartime price and trade board advice urges cautious handling of aluminum kitchenware. Use mild soap and fine abrasive, treat stains gently, and prefer boiling water with vinegar for stubborn marks. Do not use alkaline solutions like soda.
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D. P. Cruickshank
Metals Administration
Prices and Trade Board
Albert the Super-Sniffing Police Dog Test
Six people stood together each holding a stone and dropping it. Albert was allowed to smell one hand and then picked out the correct stone after a brief sniffing.
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Albert
Wartime National Health Diet Emphasizes Milk and Tomatoes
The national health service issued Canada's first wartime official diet. Adults should drink half a pint of milk daily while children need more than a pint. A daily tomato serving follows, due to tomatoes being a main vitamin C source that cannot be stored by the body.
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Nutrition Services of
Department of National Health
Canada
Bull takes refuge in Windsor china shop amid raid by drovers
An escaped slaughterhouse bull hid in an antique china shop near Windsor Castle. The store suffered heavy damage before drovers captured the animal. Manageress Mrs. Maude Crutchley recalled being bombed from her London home and calling the episode the most exciting quarter hour to try to pet the bull out.
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Windsor Castle
Australian inventor improves barbed wire to stop tanks
Bendigo inventor H. A. Abbott develops a fixed barb wire with locked-wire construction and 110 ton tensile strength, claimed to be the strongest in the world and now mass produced in Australia for home and overseas use. Melbourne businessman A. G. Michell, inventor of the Michell Thrust Block, is noted as a leading war instrument innovator.
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H. A. Abbott
Bendigo
Australia
A. G. Michell
Michell
Mercantile Marine
Mr. Michell
Melbourne
Indians Aid National Salvage Drive With Old Rubbers
Indians of Canada’s far North contribute to the national salvage drive by turning in old rubbers when buying new footwear. The Hudson's Bay Company lends cooperation. A Manitoba game and fisheries representative recovered 300 pounds of old rubbers from northern Manitoba.
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Canada
Hudson's Bay Company
Manitoba Game and Fisheries
Manitoba
Young Brown's yard task ends in guesswork miscue
In a ship yard a rookie named Brown is given a two foot rule to measure a large steel plate. He returns claiming the rule marks the length plus extra using his hand and arm as units. The tale ends with a humorous mismeasurement. The Rhine falls 70 feet at Schaffhausen compared to Europe's Niagara.
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Young Brown
Brown
Foreman
Schaffhausen
Europe
Lord Woolton Sounds Alarm On Food Supplies In London
Lord Woolton the Food Minister warns Britons to face the facts of food shortages. He cites shipping losses and dwindling supplies, notes the need to conserve, even withdrawing children's tea ration, and urges vigilance against complacency amid wartime constraints.
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Prents
Lord Woolton
London Herald
London Daily Sketch
Australian Wings Pioneer Aerial Supply In WWI Battle
The text credits Wing Commander Lawrence James Wackett of Australia with pioneering air drop supply methods during the Battle of Hamel in 1918. It notes pilots dropping ammunition from 1000 feet to within yards of ground crews, enabling about 100000 rounds and saving lives, with later general adoption and ties to armored vehicle air landings.
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Lawrence James Wackett
Australia
Hamel
Wackett
Australian Flying Corps
John Monash
New Guinea
Junkers Company
King inspects new lighter rifle for eastern command
The British army is being equipped with a new lighter, more accurate rifle. The King inspected an eastern command, studied one rifle, and spoke with a crack shot who praised the gun saying it seemed as if he could not miss.
Klondike Strongman John Wagner Dies in Juneau
John Wagner age 80, famed during the Klondike gold rush as the strongest man on the Chilkoot Pass trail, died in a Juneau hospital where he had been a patient since October. He built a reputation as the only packer able to carry a cook stave.
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John Wagner
Klondike
Chilkoot Pass
Juneau
Alaska
Wagner
Packer
Infant Baptism Aboard Submarine Amid Bell Ceremony
Three month old daughter of Lieut. Peter S. W. Roberts, among Britain s youngest VC holders, is christened in the forward torpedo compartment of a submarine with the ship s bell inverted as a baptismal font amid torpedoes surrounding the scene.
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Peter S. W. Roberts
Britain
V.c.’S
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England
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