Diverse World News Highlights Across 1947 and 1948
Reports span from Jewel sales at Christies in London in 1846 to 1947 timber orders in Canada. MacArthur backs a yen loan plan to revive cotton, while Truman dodges 1948 nomination talk. UK import plans list luxuries like pickles and quilts, and a Kuyurgaz coalfield in the Urals is described. Canada appoints John Kearney as first High Commissioner to India.
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John Doherty Kearney
Norway
Denmark
Canada
India
St. Laurent
British Plan New Everest Expedition With Wartime Gear
A British party plans the best equipped Everest attempt yet with an Australian RAF officer and a UK RM doctor coordinating. They will use wartime cliff scaling and commando methods plus modern oxygen gear, self heating foods, and advanced climbing suits to improve success chances.
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Mount Everest
R.A.F
United Kingdom
R.A.M.C
Holland's Struggle Back To Normal
Government statistics show Holland's return toward peacetime. Industrial output sits at 60 to 70 percent of 1938, while major polders have been reclaimed and first harvests achieved. Housing and infrastructure progress include 4,500 emergency houses and 5,100 stables built, and 150 of 181 key railway bridges replaced.
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The
Hague
Holland
Wieringermeer
Walcheren
Amsterdam
Scandinavia
Production of Plumbing Supplies Set to Rise in Canada
Canadian builders expect a 25 percent overall rise in output of valves fittings pipe pumps plumbing fixtures heating boilers and radiation supplies. Boilers furnaces and stoves and fans also likely to increase, with notable gains in the year’s final six months peaking at 1947 levels.
World Calendar Aims to Fix Christmas Weekends
World Calendar Association of New York promotes a solar year based plan where each year starts on Sunday January 1 and Christmas falls on Monday. A Year-End Day would mark world unity and a Leap Year occurs every four years. Fourteen nations already back the idea seeking US Canada and UN approval to adopt a 91 day quarter system with months of 26 days plus Sundays.
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United States
Canada
United Nations
Walking as universal exercise promoted by Toronto YMCA pamphlet
The Toronto Central Y M C A issues a Walk and Keep Fit pamphlet praising walking as free health care for all ages. It urges a brisk two to three mile daily walk, proper posture, weight transfer, and foot care to build resistance and prevent disease.
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Toronto Central Y.M.C.A
Bulgarian musician writes new address from Rochester
A Bulgarian musician who previously could not contact his father in Bulgaria sends a note with a new address. He instructs his father in broken English to copy and print the address at the top of the letter. The father receives a reply addressed to Boris Maslennikov Forg Hotel 400 Bones Air Fireproof Rochester New York.
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Bulgaria
Boris Maslennikov
Forg Hotel 400
Bones
Max Bentley Named Among United States Top Athletes
Chicago Black Hawks star center Max Bentley was named one of the 10 outstanding U S athletes of the year, honored in absentia at a Los Angeles banquet by the Los Angeles Times for the fourth straight year. The note closes with a remark on mankind's oldest craft using stone.
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Los Angeles
Max Bentley
Chicago Black Hawks
United States
Delisle
Sask
Los Angeles Times
Population of U S May Decline in Next Century
Columbus Ohio reports at the National Council of Geography Teachers convention that the United States could see a population decrease of about 40 million over the next century while Oriental populations may double. University of Maryland geographer O E Baker warns that 100 million Americans in luxury and aging trends could not counter a potential surge of one to two billion people in the Orient with far greater industrial power. Baker foresees Russia's population rising to 500 million or more and Europe to about 1 billion under likely unified governance.
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Columbus
Ohio
United States
National Council of Geography Teachers
U.S
O. E. Baker
University of Maryland
Orient
Russia
Baker
British cattle die in virulent foot and mouth outbreak
Nearly 800 cattle slaughtered in Dorset and Somerset as foot and mouth disease spreads with no sign of abatement. Incubation narrowed to about 48 hours from the usual four to seven days. Origin traced to a farm selling a tested dairy heifer at a regional auction.
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London
Dorset
Somersetshire
England
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