Queen Elizabeth Ready To Resume Passenger Service After War
Reconditioning at Southampton nears completion as the Cunard White Star liner Queen Elizabeth, after six years of wartime service, is stripped of military fittings and redecorated. work by over 2,000 tradesmen removes war gear, tests electrical systems, renews boilers, and stores and installs furnishings for a return to peacetime voyages.
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Ottawa Journal
Southampton
England
Cunard
White Star Line
Atlantic
Cunard Line
New York
Clyde
Gourock
Ministry of Transport
United States
Australia
Welmore
King George V
Man who taught Mussolini manners dies at sea
Mario Pansa, famed diplomat and tutor to Mussolini, famed for refining the dictator’s image, drowned while swimming at Fregené near Rome. He advised Mussolini to act with decorum and even tutored Edda, Mussolini’s daughter, in etiquette before declining titles. In London, reports note scientists pursuing a so called perpetual motion plane, while officials term such claims nonsensical.
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Mussolini
Rome
Mario Pansa
Fregene
Pansa
London
Berlin
Italy
Edda
Galeazzo Ciano
Ciano
Count Ciano
Voltaire
Shelley
the People
Air Ministry
Senate tourist committee urges federal aid for Canada roads
The Senate tourism panel chaired by W A Buchanan recommends federal support for highway building to boost tourist traffic. It cites potential US tourism business near 600 million dollars and calls for park road hard-surfacing, better service by operators, improved maps, long term planning, and federal provincial coordination. It also suggests studying the Alaska highway link from Edmonton to Dawson Creek. A Buffalo migration anecdote closes the report.
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Senate Tourist Committee
W. A. Buchanan
Alberta
Canada
United States
Immigration and Customs Officers
Alaska Highway
Edmonton
Dawson Creek
West Greenland Climate Change Tied to Gulf Stream Shifts
Dr. Max Dunbar, new McGill University zoology assistant professor, warns Gulf Stream changes and eddy currents are warming West Greenland waters. Cod, whales, and seals move north. past 1820s and 1840s fluctuations hint at cycles, but current shift lasts decades. Arctic air knowledge seen as crucial to Europe and North America.
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West Greenland
Max Dunbar
McGil University
Canada
Greenland
Gulf Stream
Dunbar
Europe
Montreal
Arctic Circle
Arctic Institute of North America
McGill University
Edinburgh
McGill
Oxford
Yale University
Montreal Daily Star
Appointment Barbershop Challenge Across Genders
The piece contrasts women's ease in booking hair services with men's wait for barber shop times. It ponders how a barber would fare if he offered appointments for haircuts and shaves, avoiding delays and idle time.
Cierva W 9 helicopter dazzles crowd at Southampton display
Britain unveils the Cierva W 9 helicopter at an air pageant in Southampton. A single rotor craft that can take off and land vertically and move sideways and backwards, it astonished spectators and impressed experts with its potential.
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Britain
Southampton
United Nations Plans Permanent World Food Board
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization proposes an international ever normal granary run by a permanent world food board. It would stabilize prices, buy and sell surpluses, build 6 to 12 month reserves, and coordinate with the World Bank and other bodies to foster trade, industry, and employment while preventing global hunger.
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United Nations Organization
World Food Board
Grant Dillman
Ashington
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organzation
UNRRA
International Emergency Food Council
Promnced Board
SCS
World Bank
The
Food Organization
Sudbury Steeple Jack Survives 85‑Foot Fall
George Petryna a 25 year old Sudbury steeple jack fell 85 feet from the Church of Christ the King belfry while painting the twin steeples. He and partner Eddie Chamberlain were working when Petryna lost footing and landed on a cement parapet. Chamberlain saved himself with a lifeline. Petryna is a war veteran and had only one high job experience.
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Sudbury
George Petryna
Church of Christ the King
Petryna
Eddie Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Britain Plans Open Doors to Foreign Tourists Next Year
Britain aims to welcome foreign visitors starting next year and expects annual tourism business to reach about 100 million pounds. Sir Harley Shawcross told the British Travel Association that prewar tourism amounted to 30 million pounds a year and the country must attract visitors with moderate budgets and continental competition. The delay also allows industry to gear up for domestic demand and avoid disappointing shoppers.
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Britain
London
Harley Shawcross
British Travel Association
Floral linen embroidery pattern design details
The notice advertises pattern 7399 with six motifs averaging 3 a inch by 15 inches, showing edge and buttonhole stitch embroidery for floral designs. Send twenty cents to the Household Arts Department at Winnipeg Newspaper Union with name and address and pattern number.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
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