T C A Preparing for Post War Services
Concrete planning for post war civil aviation advances with Trans-Canada Air Lines playing a leading role. Canada helped shape international aviation standards at Montreal and Chicago conferences. TC A details wartime routes, increasing freight and passenger traffic, and plans for peacetime expansion and new Winnipeg to Edmonton service.
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J. Symin
Trane
Dundée Air Lines
Montreal
Commonwealth and Empire Nations
Commonwealth Organization and Communications
Chicago
United Nations and
International Civil Aviation Organization
Canada
Trans-Canada Air Lines
T.C.A
Trans- Atlantic Air Service
Saint John
Fredericton
Halifax
Sydney
St. John’s
Newfoundland
Victoria
New York
London
Windsor
Calgary
Edmonton
Express
Moncton
Lethbridge
Winnipeg
Maritimes
Vancouver
War’s Dark Age Threat Highlights Lost Humanities
Sir Ronald Davison warns Britain faces a Dark Age as five years of war drain educated youth from universities. Young scholars aged eighteen were conscripted to end the war, halting full honors study in economics social sciences history and philosophy while sciences like physics engineering and medicine persist for wartime purposes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ronald Davison
Britain
Halifax Chronicle
Gems of Thought on Past and Future
A compact collection reflects on lessons from the past guiding present growth. Quotes from Confucius George Washington Mary Baker Eddy Emerson Carlyle Whittier emphasize learning from history to shape the future and spiritual development.
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George Washington
Mary Baker Eddy
Emerson
Notorious rough track and daring bomber ace in WWII
A drill from early railways shows a brakeman shouting jump as a train derails on a rough section. The piece shifts to Guards Captain Vasily Osipov, Soviet Union hero of 400 bomber missions, detailing his front line service, awards, and air battles. It also reports a botanical discovery on Table Mountain Surinam, describing a forgotten world of flora and a jungle landscape explored by Dr. Basset Maguire and a team.
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Russia
Vasily Osipov
Soviet Union
Leningrad
Osipov
Chkalov
Order of the Red Banner
Stalingrad
Caucasus
The
Table Mountain
Surinam
Basset Maguire
New York Botanical Garden
Dutch Guiana
Wilhelmina Range
Dr. Maguire
Mount
Roraima
Arthur Conan Doyles
Mount Ouida
Venezuela
Britain to Rebuild Its Merchant Navy After War Losses
The Dauphin press report notes Britain plans a long rebuilding of its merchant fleet. new fast freighters with passenger capacity enter service while plans foresee a five to sixteen year path to prewar tonnage. A government committee will set building priorities as shipyards gain capacity postwar.
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Dauphipee
Britain
Admiralty
South Africa
London
German Treachery On Prisoner Restraint Tactics
A wounded Normandy veteran now convalescing in Yorkshire argues for immobilizing Nazi prisoners by keeping hands entwined at the nape of the neck or on the head. He cites the risk of hidden weapons and surprise attacks, saying folded arms leave guards vulnerable and hinder escape attempts. Leeds Yorkshire Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Normandy
Yorkshire
Leeds
Yorkshire Post
Versatile railway man milks twenty cows to save night shift
Stanley Smith of Sarnia, an alderman and head of Canadian National Railways freight sheds, responded to an emergency by milking twenty cows that had not been milked for 24 hours. He climbed into a stock car, sat on a box, and finished the job just before 1 a.m.
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Stanley Smith
Sarnia
Canadian National Railways
Trans-Canada to replace aircraft windows with plastic
Trans-Canada Air Lines says it will replace glass windows in all Lockheed 14-08 aircraft with plastic. The change promises a 23.4 pound weight savings per plane and about a 50 percent reduction in replacement costs from breakage.
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Trans-Canada Air Lines
The Chinese Wear White for Mourning 2001
A brief note on mourning customs in China as white attire symbolizes grief during the 2001 period. The piece highlights cultural norms around bereavement and attire without detailing specific events or individuals.
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Sions
R.C.A.F
France
J. E Fournier
H. A Benoit
Paul Long
Meunier
Lieut
Thibeault
Paul Labelle
Taschereau
Europe
D’artois
Archambault
Confucius
Carlyle
Whittier
Strange
Royal Navy
Navy
Fala
Ottawa
Ray Atherton
U.S
Atherton
President Roosevelt
White House
Germany
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