World Happenings Briefly Told
Field guns on skis are the Red Army's war measure. Japanese workers hire in Ontario lumber camps. U S may ration retread tires and new tires this month. Britain will lend China up to 50 million pounds for war. Siberian regions open for cultivation to aid Russia. Canada seeks exchange of ambassadors with Soviet Russia. Italy cuts meat ration to 3 percent weekly. Japanese detainees in southwest Pacific moved to Australia. Canadian sugar stocks drop from 140.9 million to 121.8 million pounds. Rana Goliath frog of West Africa grows to terrier size.
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Vancouver
Ontario
United States
Foreign Office
Great Britain
China
Siberian
Russia
Railways in War: Canada’s Transport Backbone
In a Canadian Club Montreal address, R C Vaughan praises railways as a war machine vital to Canada’s war program. He notes CN operated over half of Canada’s 43,000 miles of steam lines at outbreak, expanded wartime traffic 17 percent in 1941 while cutting costs, and its role from shipyards to depots and supply chains nationwide. The talk cites railways enabling fieldbuildings, resource extraction, and foreign theater support.
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R. C. Vaughan
Canadian National Railways
Canadian Club of
Montreal
Railways
Vaughan
Canada
Canadian National
Atlantic
Pacific
Commonwealth Training Plan
Dominion
Britain
Mr. Vaughan
Quebec
Noranda
Manitoba
Flin Flon
Hudson Bay
Moncton
Great Britain
Ottawa
Winnipeg
Toronto
United Nations
Prince Rupert
Pin Money Frock Is Gay Pattern 4952 by Anne Adams
Anne Adams Pattern 4952 offers a lightweight pin money frock for work and street wear with front buttons scalloped collar and cuffs and optional pockets. Size range 34 to 48 with fabric yardage details and a 20 cent price plus mail order instructions to Winnipeg Pattern Dept. Abbotsbury England hosts the world’s oldest bird sanctuary with about 1,000 swans.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Abbotsbury
England
New Plastic Material Aims to Ease War Material Shortages
Excelite, a wood excelsior based plastic substitute from Designers for Industry Inc, promises to ease wartime material shortages. It uses wood excelsior water silicate of soda soy bean protein and quicklime to create a strong resilient heat insulating product that can be sawed nailed or planed and will not swell. The article notes the material’s potential to aid manufacturers blocked by priorities.
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Designers For Industry, Inc
Four Men Break Roof to Reach Healed Paralytic
Sunday school lesson recounts four friends who, seeing Jesus in Capernaum, lower a paralyzed man through a roof to seek healing. Jesus commends their faith, praising persistence, inventive effort, and belief in his power to cure. The story emphasizes faith proven by action.
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Jesus
Capernaum
Samuel Chadwick
CBC Plans Daylight Saving Start War Service Programs
CBC introduces wartime programming shifts with National Daylight Saving, rerouting schedules across Canada and the United States. A new daily series As A Matter of Fact debuts, and British Ballad Operas highlight cultural programming from Toronto with appearances by Goossens and performers from the Metropolitan Opera.
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Canada
United States
CBC
Director of Public Information
Toronto
Eugene Goossens
Rose Bampton
Metropolitan Opera Company
Henry
Devil
Arthur Benjamin
Healey Willan
Conservatory of Music
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Red Army
King
House of Commons
Southwest Pacific War Area
Australia
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
West Africa
Mickie
the Healing Ministry OF Jesus
Matthew
London
Turkey
Treae
Cppleford
William
Ferguson
South Atlantic Ocean
South Orkney
South Georgia Islands
Gene Byrnes
Bullseye
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