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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 18, 1942
Page
2
The Nazis expected air power to destroy mobility and starve Britain into submission, using a lightning land victory and seizure of French sea power. The text argues air power cannot replace sea power, and that superior sea and air power will protect Allied communications, sustain land battles, and bring final victory. It highlights Germany underestimating sea power and overvaluing bombers.
Scientists note that lightning does not have a definite speed and varies greatly. Measurements show speeds from 14 900 to 68 400 miles per second with an average near 28 500. After the first stroke or leader, multiple discharges can follow so quickly they appear as a single flash.
A distant past epoch described a great north flowing river connecting the British Isles to Europe before the North Sea formed. The narrative notes social graces and the value of yawning with a closed mouth as a simple human skill.
Reverend James G. Endicott told a Toronto gathering of United Church ministers that every Japanese officer above colonel rank is open to bribery and expects to retire wealthy at war’s end.
Flatworms lack blood and have branching food canals reaching all body parts. Each segment can become a complete new worm if the original is cut into pieces.
A note credits the British national anthem to John Bull a British composer and organist. A statement declares oats can be used to make stucco and wall boards, signaling a novel material use.
Alan Maurice Irwin reviews the Base Ordnance Workshop and its unconventional leadership under ex-private Lt Col G A Secord, noting the rapid expansion of the First Canadian Base Ordnance Workshop and the oddities of British and American naming, with a nod to Victor Sifton and broader wartime terminology shifts.
An electric detector shaped like a portable radio receiver locates tiny amounts of radium to shield hospital and lab workers from stray radiation. The device detects radiation from as little as one ten millionth of an ounce of radium.
Mary Ellen Burgess outlines a practical rehearsal plan for a one act play. She advises 12 to 16 rehearsals, scene-by-scene work, small group practice, and home line review. She emphasizes character biographies, observational research, promptness, and efficient use of rehearsal time.
A quick bread recipe for All-Bran Apple Butter Bread yields a moist loaf with a nutty bran note. Steps cover soaking, creaming, folding, and baking a 1 hour 10 minute bake at 325 degrees F. The text also ta... discusses a minister seeking a servant and a pun about salaries from salt money and ore-to-diamond recovery facts.
Britain mobilizes a wild rose hip harvest with 500 tons processed into a vitamin C rich syrup. The syrup, 20 times richer than orange juice, will supply 2,500,000 babies for a year at 15 drops daily. one ounce covers a month per child.
About one fourth of the gold produced is used as coinage in normal times, with the remainder consumed in dentistry jewelry gilding and gold leaf work.
Civilian instructors at British commonwealth training schools may wear pilot’s Wings on their civilian uniforms. The Canadian Flying Clubs’ Association reports this approval by the department of national defence for air, pending official uniform approval for elementary flying training school employees.
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