India Supplies Vital Goods To United Nations
The article notes India as a major supplier to Allied nations, providing tea, jute, cotton, sugar, tobacco, hides, and oils. It highlights tea exports, the extensive tea industry with 5,000 gardens, and India's large mineral and power potential along with flood control and irrigation progress.
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United Nations
India
Straits’ Settlements
Canada
Dominion
China
United Kingdom
Russia
British Ministry of Food
British East Africa
Japan
Dutch East Indies
Passive resistance as Polish wartime tactic
The piece notes that slow-down strikes are a key Polish tactic against occupation, with workers in German supervised plants delaying production. It describes chalk or tar turtles with the slogan Work slowly painted on walls as a common symbol of sabotage and morale.
Let Your Handiwork Grace Your Home Pattern 7365
Pattern 7365 offers a transfer with six motifs featuring flowers and birds for decorate towels scarves or pillowcases. Include twenty cents and write name address and pattern number to Winnipeg Household Arts Department 175 McDermot Avenue E.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Offended Impediment Up With Which I Will Not Put
A memorandum circulated in a government department prompts a parable about prescriptive grammar. The anecdote notes a pedant appending a postscript about ending sentences with prepositions, provoking a response that mocks the misplaced formality.
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Strand Magazine
Torpedo design sinks to prevent capture or danger
Preventing trouble torpedoes sink to bottom when misses their target or engine runs down. Heavy weight or automatic sinking gear keeps them from threatening friendly ships and from falling into enemy hands or revealing mechanical secrets.
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Collier’s
Cotton Spun Fine Yields 250 Miles From One Pound
A report notes the extraordinary fineness of cotton fiber with estimates that one pound can produce about 250 miles of yarn. The claim highlights longstanding textile efficiency and advances in spinning technology.
A Mile Of Keys Boys Dit Got Work In Drive
Britain accelerates scrap drive as Lord Beaverbrook reports US needs own scrap for war plants. Officials urge homes farms and attics to yield metal with teams touring regions, trucks collecting metal, and a mile of old keys strung in a village as an example of local effort. Buy War Savings Certificates.
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Salvace Metal
Lord Beaverbrook
Britain
United States
Ministry of Works
Small merchants urged to advertise to fight war industry drift
The Amherstburg Echo urges local small businesses to advertise persistently to attract customers as war industry concentrates in urban centers. It warns supplies grow scarce and prices attract people to large cities, urging merchants to invite shoppers to compete with big firms. Mercury is noted as the hottest planet with a long day in the solar system.
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London
Berlin
Solar System
Mercury
Thirteen Year Old Guide Aids Trail Ride in Alberta
Donna Johnson aged 13 served as guide for the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies on the 19th annual Banff ride. She saddled and bridled ten horses each morning, adjusted stirrups and cinches, and cared for horse tack, helping with the long summer journey from Ghost River Alberta. Her father Laurie Johnson, head guide for the ride, hails from the foothill country west of Calgary.
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P.R
Trail Riders
Canadian Rockies
War Services
Donna Johnson
Banff
Calgary
Miss Johnson
Ghost River
Alberta
Laurie Johnson
Finest Worsted Cloth From Canada’s Home-Grown Wool
Wellington Jeffers reports that Canada can now produce the finest worsted cloth from home-grown wool. A suit-length sample was sent to cabinet ministers provincial premiers and Western members to prove the quality.
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Canada
Wellington Jeffers
Globe & Mail
Toronto
W. L MacKenzie King
Women M P s Patrol London Docks and Parks After War
Military Police roles expand as WAAF and ATS members join patrols at rail hubs service clubs and parks in central London. Female MPs wear blue or red armbands while providing guidance first aid and basic investigations alongside male colleagues.
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M.P
London
A.T.S
W.A.A.F
Britain
WAAF
A.T.S. M.pi
W.A.A.F. MP
Air Force
Old Cartwheel pennies return to circulation amid coin shortage
Royal Canadian Mint chief H F Ewart notes hoarded cartwheel pennies from twenty years ago reappear in country stores and banks as small coins remain scarce for rising prices. Mint plans to mass produce while banks remint circulating pieces to conserve metal for wartime needs.
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H. FE. Ewart
Royal Canadian Mint
Ewart
Mint
Canadian built destroyers reach Atlantic to join Royal Navy
Two small boats built on Canada’s east coast arrived in a British port fresh from Can ada shipyards. They crossed the Atlantic to join the United Kingdom and hunted a submarine within two days of departure. They fended off a second attack and completed their voyage with flying colors. A parallel note recalls Brigham Young and Mormon pioneers entering the Valley of the Great Salt Lake in 1847 with a single tree, now memorialized in concrete.
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Convent Garden Opera House
London
M P
Royal Navy
Canada
United Kingdom
New Brunswick
Brigham Young
Valley
Great Salt Lake
Pioneer Memorial Association
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Alice Brooks
Cauhgt
Amherstburg. Ont
Genuty
U.S
St. Paul's Cathedral
W.r.n.'s
Leslie Biggin
Canadian Wool Co., Ltd
K. Markon
Wool Combing Corporation of Canada, Ltd
J. W. Downs
Downs
Coulter & Co. (Canada) Ltd
Canadian Wool Company
Bers
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