Canada War Record shows 300000 on active service in war effort
August issue of Canada's War Record summarizes wartime contributions including 300,000 Canadians in Britain and North America, 400 ships by 1942, convoy success against submarines, RAF and RCAF air crews, the Commonwealth Air Training Plan with 68 schools, large American enlistment in Canadian forces, and extensive civilian aid and hospital work in Britain.
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Canada
Director of Public Information
United States
Canadian
North Amercan
Navy
Army
RCA
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Britain
Australia
New Zealand
RCAF
South America
Plant growth advances with medicine inspired genetics
Hamilton P. Traub of the U S department of agriculture notes drugs like sulfaniamide and sulfapyirdine can alter plant chromosomes to create new varieties. He cites soil-less culture begun by young scientists who sought substitutes for exhausted soils and developed methods to grow superior flowers and vegetables on nutrient solutions and wire mesh.
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Hamilton P. Traub
U.S. Department of Agriculture
United States
Family routine and plant germination contrasted
The passage shows a father asking each child about daily tasks with Ann claiming she washed dinner things and Sheila wiping them, then John replying he picked up the pieces. It also notes dormant weed seeds germinate when cultivated and cites wartime labor absorption of 330000 to 350000 Canadians into industrial work.
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Ann
Sheila
John
Termites On Guard No Longer Safe From a Microphone
A Calgary Albertan note laments privacy loss as a new super microphone can pick up termite munchings and other tiny sounds, ending the era of unseen sound privacy. It argues quiet creatures like termites revealed by technology threaten everyone’s private sphere.
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Calgary
Mexico forms coalition to aid working women
A Mexico City committee of the Ministries of Public Welfare Labor Education Interior and the Public Health Department seeks ways to improve working and private life for employed women and to provide jobs for those who must earn a living. Children of working mothers will be cared for fed clothed and educated.
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Ministries of Public Welfare, Labor Education and the Interior
Public Health Department
Mexico City
Everyone Knows to Toast with Punch at Sea Victory
A 1604 British toast by Admiral Rus sell, Earl of Oxford, used a fountain of punch to honor the king. The exchange highlights a joke about automobiles and plants as a humorous aside in a satirical memory of early modern court mischief and royal hospitality.
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Russell
Earl of Oxford
Future Of Canada Predicted As A Strong Postwar Nation
Dr Harold E Conrad of Ottawa University Kansas predicts Canada will emerge as a great world power after the war. He cites Ogdensburg Hyde Park as elevating Canada to equal status with the United States in relations and says postwar Canada will influence British American ties. He cautions against expecting political union with Canada, noting its close British alignment. There are more than 450 kinds of woodpeckers in the world.
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Harold E. Conrad
Ottawa University
Kansas
Canada
United States
Ogdensburg
Hyde Park
Boston University
Hitler
Conrad
Cooking In Hawaii Oven Laid In Ground Leaves For Feast
A Hawaiian feast uses a deep ground pit lined with leaves and hot stones to bake chickens pork or fish. The clan gathers to prepare and wait three to four hours then shares a grand dinner on a green leaf table cloth. Europe is described as divided into three parts. Camel hair brushes are made from Russian squirrel tails.
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Hawaii
Crochet This Set For War Relief Pattern 7045
Crochet this jacket cap and bootees set for war relief. Quick and inexpensive to make with Shetland Floss or French Zephyr. Pattern 7045 details stitches and materials and includes photographs. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue Winnipeg Man. No Alice Brooks pattern book published.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Alice Brooks
Gasoline Rules Stressed Amid War Emergency
Officials warn fuel supplies are tight as Canada and Britain face wartime demands. Cottrelle urges continued gasoline conservation and explains shortages, noting tankers sunk and lend lease transfers intensifying the crisis.
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Canada
Mr. Cottrette
Oxford vaporizer marks advance in anaesthesia use
A government adopting automatic Oxford vaporizer from Nuffield Institute of Research at Oxford provides precise anaesthetic vapor percentages to patients. Lord Nuffield offers 1000 machines for service use, proving fool proof in warfare conditions and hospitals. The Lancet notes air passes through the device to deliver exact concentrations of liquid anaesthetic.
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Nuffield Institute of Research
Oxford
Lord Nuffield
Lancet
British Medical Journal
The Cost of Big Naval Shells and Torpedoes
The article explains naval munitions costs noting big ship shells weigh as much as mid sized cars and each triple salvo costs pounds. Torpedoes weigh a ton and cost three thousand pounds, packed with five hundred pounds of TNT and seven compartments, released by a cartridge and designed to strike water at depth before proceeding straight to target.
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T.N.T
Overseas
Daily Mail
Goering Death Threat Quip Amid Cable Link Note
A wartime joke references Reichsmarshal Goering vowing to die by his own hand if Germany falls. The article also notes three cable companies plus telegraph firms operate cables from Canadian stations, highlighting wartime communications.
Most Photographed War Worker Brenda Cuthbertson
Brenda Cuthbertson a 19 year old tobacco shop clerk from Lancashire is praised as the most photographed girl in Britain. The Britain born worker has become a symbol of war labor as she helps operate an electric grinder in a factory turning out tanks.
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Brenda Cuthbertson
Bri
Lancashire
Britain
Brenda
Cautionary Matrimonial Math Then and Now
A short social quip notes that a twenty year old considering marriage to a forty year old should recall that at forty he will be sixty. It concludes it may be better for a forty year old to marry a twenty year old so they reach sixty around the same time.
RAF Doctors Seek Reunion for Horton Twins in Glasgow
Royal Air Force doctors in Glasgow arrange efforts to reunite Jack and Lionel Horton twins serving as RAF ground crew amid a so called frustrated twin complex. The article notes a German cannon from the First Great War with a 30 mile range and a shell cost of 8.90.
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Royal Air Force
Glasgow
Jack
Lionel Horton
RAF
Paris
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