Britain’s 1942 bacon plan hinges on Canadian hogs and farmers
Canada faces a 666 million pound annual pork contract for Britain in 1942, building on 425 million pounds shipped in 1941. Government officials credit hog growers, farmers, and consumers for meeting wartime goals, with egg production also boosted to supply Britain.
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United Kingdom
United States
Britain
Canada
Agriculture Department
Department
Dairy Products Board
Ontario
Quebec
British Food Ministry
Dominion
Montreal
Empire
Canadian Seaboard
Canadian Bacon Board
Return to sea for Bonded Sailor Bartley in Royal Navy tale
Charles Bartley 49, a former leading seaman on H.M.S. Collingwood, recounts his failed attempts to join the merchant service before the current war. After a stint with the Pioneer Corps and a royal visit, he finally returned to sea within weeks, prompted by a sudden impulse and conversation with Queen Elizabeth and Admiral Sir Edward Evans. The piece also recalls the bone china origin story and its link to translucency in porcelain.
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Charles Bartley
Royal Navy
H.M.S. Collingwood
King George
Bartley
Pioneer Corps
Queen Elizabeth
Sir Edward Evans Bartley
H.M.S
Collingwood
Sir Edward
Bomb Wound Shifts Fireman's Heart And Stomach
Surgeons report during a heavy London raid that 41 year old Norman Daniels survived a chest wound when a bomb splinter caused his heart and stomach to switch places for a moment. He was knocked down while fighting a blaze and later treated at Charing Cross hospital. The unusual injury documented by medical staff highlights a freak blast effect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Daniels
Daniels
London
Charing Cross Hospital
Duke of Gloucester Returns From Gibraltar Visit
The Duke of Gloucester has returned to England after a week on The Rock his first royal visit since 1937 He toured Gibraltar inspecting all aspects of life there and visited country homes of prominent Spanish residents He was cheered in the streets by Spaniards as he arrived back at the fortress
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Duke of Gloucester
England
Gibraltar
the Rock
Chinese Laundry Misreads Name Mark
A customer asks about a name on a laundry parcel. The worker hesitantly reveals the mark reads it is “a little fat man who never smile” as a description rather than a name.
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Laundryman
Hills Prospector Sam Cleland Returns to Mountain Life
Sam Cleland, a 77 year old prospector who drifted into Wells British Columbia after 12 years in the hills he calls mountain goat country, plans to return to the hills after hearing war news. He fought at Vimy Ridge in World War I and homesteaded in the Peace River area before prospector life in BC. He cannot believe Britain and Germany are at war again and says he has not seen another person since 1932.
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Sam Cleland
Wells
B.C
Mountain Goat” Country
Cleland
Vimy Ridge
Peace River
British Columbia
Britain
Germany
L. W. Brockington
Mr. Brockington
England
Brockington
Ottawa
Ottawa Journal
War ace endures old instincts in peacetime flight
RAF ace Wing Commander Roland S. S. Tuck says flying Bel Air Cobra in Buffalo still triggers habit trails from the English Channel era. He remains constantly alert for unseen enemy aircraft while piloting over the Niagara River. There are about 4500 native reindeer owners in Alaska.
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Buffalo
English Channel
France
Roland S. S. Tuck
Niagara River
Alaska
Hitler quote used by British in propaganda placards
Adolf Hitler authored the line praised by British authorities as a reveal of British resolve. The placards claim Britain can win any war despite long odds and scarce equipment, a statement attributed to Hitler from Mein Kampf.
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Libya
Middle East
India
Tobruk
Cairo
Baghdad
Teheran
Adolf Hitler
Freedom's Champion Churchill Birthday Tribute From The Times
The New York Times paid tribute to Prime Minister Churchill on his 67th birthday. It praised him as embodying free men's sentiments and as a voice for shared resolve against oppression and intolerance.
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New York Times
Winston Churchill
The
Churchill
Times
Knitted Chair Set Pattern 7109 From Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Pattern 7109 offers knitting instructions for a two needle chair set with illustrations and stitch details. To obtain, send 20 cents in coins 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
Brockington to lead BBC address as war adviser steps down
L W Brockington resigns as special adviser to the War Cabinet. He will fly to England to speak to British workers in munitions plants and to the public via BBC and American radio facilities, continuing to aid the war effort from Ottawa as a practicing lawyer.
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L. W. Brockington
War Cabinet
England
BBC
United States
Flu Germ Isolated By Electron Microscope Breakthrough
Scientists describe isolating a four millionth inch bullet shaped protein particle linked to human influenza. The nonliving molecule can reproduce in tissue like a chemical reaction and opens new vaccine paths. Researchers Chambers and Henle at the University of Pennsylvania report on its linkage to protamine to form vaccines and its role in spreading epidemics.
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American Philosophical Society
Leslie A. Chambers
Werner Henle
Eldridge Reeves Johnson Research Foundation
University of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Princess Donates Blood for Wounded Soldiers
Lady Patricia Ramsay daughter of the Duke of Connaught and granddaughter of Queen Victoria donated half a pint of blood for wounded soldiers and air raid victims. Plums are commonly used as pickles in Japan and widely reported in households.
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Patricia Ramsay
Duke of Connaught
Canada
Queen Victoria
Japan
Not For Food Cob Pipe Farmer Of Clay County Missouri
J G Gray a Clay County Missouri farmer specializes in cob pipe corn not food grade. He grew 7000 bushels of cobs last year yielding about 360000 good cobs though only 1 000 000 pipes are made from the crop. He has farmed 21 years and 15 years focus on cob pipe corn with a Washington Missouri company purchasing all cobs.
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J. G. Gray
Clay County
Missouri
Gray
Washington
Navy chief warns reduced fleet risks weak postwar defense
Vice-Admiral Alfred E. Evans, head of the British admiralty technical mission, told the Empire Club of Canada that postwar naval cuts would be folly. He warned that a first line of defense cannot be improvised and that building ships and training sailors require years.
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Alfred E. Evans
British Admiralty
Ottawa
Empire Club of Canada
Scots engineer speeds shell production with new forging methods
A young Coatbridge engineer in Lanarkshire developed new forging methods that officials say have tremendously accelerated shell production in Britain. The article notes Australia’s hardwood wealth as eucalyptus wood.
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Coatbridge
Lanarkshire
Britain
Australia
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