World Happenings Briefly Told
Louis Levinsky, 71, philanthropist and early Toronto Jewish leader, died at his Toronto home. Crown timber permits will be issued for personal fuel wood use to Northern Ontario settlers unable to pay dues. Calgary’s Unemployed Married Men's Association urges the city to close beer parlors and liquor stores until mood improves. US Congress to probe Fascist activity, Rep Fish proposes inquiry. Alberta government seeks about 1 million dollars in public expenditure cuts. Gandhi’s last act before arrest sent solid gold watches to Scotland Yard detectives. Indian reservation trachoma in Alberta remains serious but not worse than 1929. British Columbia to cut half a million dollars in grants for teachers. Only one British designer has produced a Canadian aero plane. Canadian air travel relies on American-made planes with US engines. Britain sells no commercial aircraft to Canada.
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Alberta
J. J. Wall
Department of Indian Affairs
British Columbia
Joshua Hinchcliffe
U.S
Britain
Canada
Saskatchewan
Commission On
Olds
Red Deer River
Eastend
Saskatoon
North America
Arctic
Wisconsin
Egypt
Bruckner
Berne
Europe
H. C. Russell
Sydney
Australia
Lockyer
South Africa
Col
Rangon
Smithsonian Institute
Washington
D.C
Douglas
California
E. P. Brooks
M.sc
F.r.ai
F.R. Met
Royal Meteorological Society
Huntington
Central Asia
Caspian Basin
Mr. Brook
Central America
Arizona
Pacific Ocean
Pacific Mountain Ranges
South America
Santiago
Chile
United States
C. E. P. Brook
America
China
Asia
Nile
J. Barrell
Yale University
Persia
Africa
North Africa
Palmyra
Syrian
Sahara
Royal Commission On Better Farming
Skin's varying power to kill bacteria explained
Justinija H. Hill and Edwin C. White of Johns Hopkins University report on skin's inconsistent bacteria-killing ability. The experiments were presented to the Society of American Bacteriologists in Baltimore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Society of American Bacteriologists
Baltimore
Justinija H. Hill
Edwin C. White
James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute
Johns Hopkins University
Belgium Premier Renkin Signals Tariff Increase Plan
Premier Renkin of Belgium announced intent to use government powers to raise tariffs and regulate imports. Observers see the move as foreshadowing defensive steps against other nations protectionist rules as a temporary policy.
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Renkin
Belgium
Caltech professors credited with velocity microscope invention
Velocity of electrons developed by Jesse Dumond and Harry Kirkpatrick at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena is described. The device observes and measures electron velocity, illustrating electrons at about 1,700 times smaller than atoms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse Dumond
Harry Kirkpatrick
California Institute of Technology At
Pasadena
Question Of Drouth Conditions In Southern Saskatchewan
In examining drought in southern Saskatchewan, the piece argues that without persistent moisture in subsoil and below normal rainfall, tillage changes alone won’t suffice. It cites historic climate cycles, fossil and geological evidence, and calls for coordinated action and scientific analysis to prevent future drought damage.
The Royal Bank of Canada 12 percent serum note
The Royal Bank of Canada offers a 12 percent serum value note linked to health and investment themes. The brief item highlights the product term and potential returns linked to a market offering.
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The
Royal Bank of Canada
Longtime Clay Pipe Maker Blames Smoking Decline
William Mitchell began as an apprentice at Capir in Fife shire and remains with the same firm at age 65, producing about nine to ten gross pipes daily. He says cigarette smoking has killed the clay pipe industry, which is fading away amid pre-Cambrian Laurentian Plateau geology in Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Mitchell
Capir
Fifeshire
Laurentian Plateau
Canada
Canadian Cattle Fattening For British Market In Canada
An unusually large number of cattle is being fattened this winter in Canada. Farmers on the prairies and in Ontario and Quebec are buying feeder cattle to prepare for export to the United Kingdom. A 50 percent railway freight rebate was extended to support the trade, with negotiations underway for further extension.
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Canada
Prairies
Ontario
Quebec
Department of Agriculture
United Kingdom
Montreal
Hormone Boost Restores Growth in Children at Brush Foundation
Dr. Theodore T. Zuck, an endocrinologist at the Brush Foundation in Cleveland, described methods using hormone extracts measured to an X ray gauge to stimulate growth. Patients retarded five to six years gained in two to three years, including a 15 year old with a skeletal age of eight who regained three years of growth in nine months.
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Theodore T. Zuck
Brush Foundation
Cleveland
Ohio
Foundation
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Louis Levinsky
Toronto
J. McCaw
Crown
Unemployed Married Men's Association
Calgary
United States Congress
Representative Fish
New York
Mahatma Gandhi
Scotland Yard
London
England
Elasto
Ielef
New
Fra Treatment Co. Limited
Craig St. W
Drouth
Hendas
B. Kryant
Monthly Weather Review
Jesse W. Schurman
Carnegie Institute of Washington
Ellsworth Huntington
Caspian Sea
J. C. Curry
Smithsonian Institute of Washington
Curry
Mr. Curry
Popular Science Monthly
Andrew E. Douglas
University of Arizona At
Tucson
Research Corporation
Commission On Conservation and
Dominion
Bank
Reval Bank of Canada
France
Paris
H.S. Holt
M.W. Wilson
T Sank
Garth Thomson, C
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & C
A.B. Brodie
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Price, Waterhouse & Co
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