Moon as future rocket airport for Earth travel
Griffith Observatory researchers forecast the moon as an intermediate base for rocket ships and a future site of lunar observatories. They foresee airtight caverns or sealed suits for air, while noting low gravity and near absence of atmosphere aid launch but pose breathing challenges. Meteorite bombardment risks appear unsupported by telescope data.
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Mars Sukte
Moon
Earth
Recon
Sciertists
Griffith Observatory
Venus
Observatory
Wartime Prices Board highlights 1940 Canadian supply policy
The Wartime Prices and Trade Board reports a moderate 7.3 percent rise in living costs over eighteen months despite war shocks. It credits careful planning, kept supplies, and cooperation with industry and the British ministries for preventing shortages, controlling profiteering, and maintaining fair prices while expanding cod liver oil processing and Wool Commission of Canada developments.
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Canada
B. McKinnon
Prices and Trade Board
McKinnon
Maritime Provinces
Quebec
Acton
Ontario
Wool Combing Corporation of Canada, Limited
United Kingdom
Leaders Call For Stronger Nations Pact To Succeed League
Dr. Mack Eastman, former Canadian official in Geneva, urged a new international association to be greater and more powerful than the League of Nations. He spoke in Toronto recalling Europe and the armistice crisis, noting French officers accepted leaders’ orders despite misgivings. In nature notes, biologists warn that removing antlers from male deer in spring reduces fawn mortality caused by jealous fathers.
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Association of Nations
League of Nations
Mack Eastman
International Labor Office
Geneva
Toronto
Eastman
Europe
France
Germany
Countess Poulette Fined Over Night Lighting in Harrogate
Sylvia Countess Poulette was fined five pounds after authorities observed a bedroom light left on in Harrogate to feed her dachshund. The incident drew attention to household lighting practices and pet care.
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Sylvia
Countess Poulette
Harrogate
Eny
British firm sells two millionth steam trap world record
A British company reportedly set a world record by selling its two millionth steam trap. Steam traps remove condensate from steam systems, with designs including float, bucket, and thermostat types. They are used in ships, refineries, mills, breweries, and many other industries worldwide.
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Iran
Scotland
Virginia
Battleships
Buckingham Palace
Westminster
Washington
Ottawa
Canberra
Lion Lifespan Fact Shelf Entry
The average length of a lion's life is about 40 years. This figure reflects common zoological estimates used in biology and wildlife texts.
Deserves Recognition Henry Bergh Led Battle For Prevention Of Animals
Henry Bergh of New York founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on April 10, 1866 and served as its first president until his death in 1888. He led lectures demonstrations and legal efforts to curb horse abuse dog fights and cruel transport, sparking nationwide concern for animal welfare.
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Henry Bergh
New York Herald Tribune
United States
Bergh
Christian Bergh
New York
Europe
America
American Society For the Prevention of
It Pays To Advertise in The Indian Paper
An advertisement in a native Indian paper shows a young woman seeking a husband for rupees 4. She marries, spends 100 on wedding celebrations, and within a year her husband dies. She collects 50 000 rupees from insurance, suggesting advertising pays.
Black Market Flourishing In Germany And Occupied Territories
Reports from London indicate widespread Black Market activity in Berlin and occupied regions with price control officers overwhelmed. Shops sell scarce goods above capped rates. coffee reaches up to $10 a pound and shortages drive hoarding prosecutions. In France Black Markets run extensive networks reserving items for select customers while queues form at times.
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Germany
Belgium
London
Berlin
Price Control Department
Antwerp
France
Not Daunted by Raid A London Bookshop Bombed
A famous book shop survived a Nazi bombing with damage to new volumes. A notice posted outside, quoting the London Daily Sketch, invites visitors to the second hand department which has been augmented during the night.
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London Daily Sketch
First Patent for Tape Measure Secured in 1868
Alvin J. Fellows received the first patent for a tape measure in 1868. The device featured a circular case and a spring lock to hold the tape at any chosen length.
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Alvin J. Fellows
Glove Makers Idle Across Grenoble District
Ninety percent of glove makers in the Grenoble district of France are idle, reflecting severe downturn in the local textile industry and widespread factory closures. Local workers face wage losses and uncertain prospects as production halts persist.
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Grenoble
France
After War Plans and the Canadian Federation of Labor
W T Burford warns that after war plans are mere dreams while victory remains distant except for restoring workers to peaceful roles. He recalls past plans for state control and compares them to enemy slavery, urging continued social progress without wartime excess. He cautions against expecting wartime gains for internal reform.
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W. T. Burford
Canadian Federation of Labor
Arctic warmth in ancient forests revealed
Ralph W. Chaney notes in Scientific Monthly that elm maple and even redwood grew in Alaska Greenland and northern Siberia when the Arctic was warm. Fossil remains from these trees show they flourished about 58 million years ago, a blink in geological time.
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Arctic
Ralph W. Chaney
Scientific Monthly
Alaska
Greenland
Siberia
Arctic Circle
No Razor Blades Bring Beards Back in Paris
A Petit Parisien report notes fashion returning to beards among Parisians as razor blades vanish since the German invasion, reviving a caricatured look seen in Victorian music halls.
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Paris
Petit Parisien
The Reuters News Agency and its Founders
A historical overview of Reuters origins tracing Julius Reuter from Cassel to market prices in Brussels Paris and London Then the agency’s growth into a family run concern then sale to Reuters Telegram Company and eventual leadership by Herbert de Reuter Sir Roderick Jones and the Press Association The piece notes London Embankment to Fleet Street relocation and the creation of a modern news clearing house costing millions with 120 word per minute teleprinters and 24 hour feeds.
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Reuters
BBC
Reuter
Cassel
Julius Reuter
England
Reuters Telegram Company
London
Baron de Reuter
Herbert
Baron Herbert de Reuter
Sir Roderick Jones
United Kingdom
Press Association
Embankment
Fleet Street
G.P.O
Highspeed Electric
Britain
Fragment of Plymouth Rock Moves to Wall Niche
A fifty pound fragment of Plymouth Rock is transferred from the former Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn to a wall niche at the Plymouth Congregational Church of the Pilgrims. The event marks the union of the churches six years ago and falls on the 320th anniversary of the Pilgrims landing. The piece symbolizes a moral force that helped shape liberty in America and endures in the face of modern challenges.
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Plymouth Rock
Church of the Pilgrims
Brooklyn
Plymouth Congregational Church of the Pilgrims
America
New York Times
Orion Stars Stand Out As Hottest Massive Giants
Orion stars are described as the largest and hottest in the universe. Surface temperatures exceed 20 000 degrees while our sun runs at about 11 000 degrees, highlighting their extreme warmth and size.
Italians Sent to Australia For Sheep Work
Captured Italians have been sent to Australia where they are expected to work with sheep and adapt to rural life, signaling wartime labor movements and reallocation of enemy prisoners.
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Australia
Comet Shines by Reflected Sunlight
The celestial object shines primarily by reflecting sunlight rather than emitting its own light. Its visible glow results from solar illumination bouncing off ice and dust particles, creating a bright tail and coma that police observers from Earth.
Definition of the Yard and Irony of Conquest
The text notes the yard once defined by King Henry I as the arm’s length and quotes a maxim on rulers: the greatest failure is a conqueror whose people bear the cost of his deeds.
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Henry I
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