Prairie Farm Shelterbelt Planning for Best Results
The article outlines a phased approach to Prairie Farm shelterbelt development, stressing tailored plans per farm, long timelines, and winter planning. Key points include keeping belts away from buildings, reserving 5 to 10 acres for gardens and yards, using belts to catch spring runoff, planting gradually, protecting nurseries from stock, and regular cultivation. It notes obtaining detailed guidance from the Dominion Forest Nursery Station in Indian Head, Saskatchewan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairie Farm
J. Wilner
Dominion Forest Nursery
Indian Head
Sask
Saskatchewan
British Navy Men Donate £100 To Canadian Red Cross
Crews from United Kingdom ships docking at Canadian ports collected funds for the Canadian Red Cross. The latest donation of £100 was presented by sailors from a large British ship to a Canadian Red Cross representative at an Eastern Canadian port. Dr Fred W Routley praised the gesture as strong evidence of goodwill toward the Red Cross.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Kingdom
Empire
Canadian Red Cross
Britain
Red Cross
Fred W. Routley
Balloon barrage devices exceed a thousand parts and cost
Kenneth Devies, a Welsh airman and balloon maker, told the Cardiff Rotary Club that barrage balloons contain more than 1,000 parts, include 21 miles of tape, cost £500 each, and have a life of three to four months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Devies
Cardiff Rotary Ciub
Malaria name from bad air belief after marsh fever
The word malaria derives from mal aria meaning bad air. People once blamed marsh fever on foul air before mosquitoes were identified as carriers.
Censors Defended by Official Over Common Sense Criticism
An American official urges understanding of British wartime censorship and explains why officials withhold naming bombed towns. He says revealing targets would aid the enemy and notes weather during raids as Coventry and other cities were hit. He argues communications avoid confirming successes and denies implying no military damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Preas
Hammer and Tongs
Birmingham
Southampton
Bristol
Coventry
Britain
Munich
Southhampton
Jerry
St Pauls Watch Guards Cathedral Night War End
The London Daily Express notes a night congregation at St Pauls Cathedral called the St Pauls Watch formed of artists architects and other professionals. Thirty five to forty five members patrol from 9 30 pm to dawn aiding vergers and officials by guarding doors keeping torches lit and observing passages after a 10 minute service in the crypt before duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul's Cathedral
London Daily Express
St. Paul's
Early London water works unearthed wooden pipes
Workmen digging in a London crater near the city uncovered several wooden pipes from one of London’s earliest water supply efforts. The elm trunk sections are hollowed and tapered to join, dating to pre conquest days and showing a primitive system.
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Tee
Edinburgh
Scoteman
London
Siimio
Here’s Your Jiffy Knit Jerkin Pattern 6868
Pattern 6868 provides directions and illustrations for a jerkin in jumbo yarn. Send 20 cents to the Household Arts Department in Winnipeg to obtain this pattern from the Winnipeg Newspaper Union. No Alice Brooks pattern book exists.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Tunnels Under London Refuges Reveal Underground Railways
The piece recalls how London’s underground shelters rose to meet wartime needs and how the system evolved. It notes the jubilee of the Tube’s inauguration, the role of James Henry Greathead, and the growth from a three mile start to about two hundred miles of tunnels at five million dollars per mile. It also mentions a North Carolina town named Whynot after persistent residents.
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London
Rads
Prince of Wales
Edward VII
Thames
James Henry Greathead
Greathead
Earth curvature measured at eight inches per mile
A historical note states the earth curves about eight inches for each mile of distance. This rule of thumb has guided early navigation and surveying techniques.
Churchill The Genius Walter Lippmann Says
Lippmann declares Churchill the genius of wartime leadership noting he has found a commander who understands the unique karakter of the actual event. He compares strategic insight to Marlborough and suggests a new comprehension of dominant wartime facts is guiding Allied forces.
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Walter Lippmann
Churchill
Hitler
Duke of Marlborough
Reading Cues From Print Styles Highlighted by Experts
After testing over 66,000 readability samples experts conclude that the upper half of a printed line yields more word form cues than the lower half Old English and typewriter faces impede reading and long stretches of italics strain the eyes
Moon Trip Faces Harsh Realities of Space Travel
A historic note outlines the immense challenges of space travel including escaping Earth's gravity at high speed and the rapid movement of the Moon, illustrating the vast speeds involved in leaving Earth and in lunar motion.
Kelp Reaches Record Length in the Ocean
The seaweed kelp is noted as the longest weed in the world, capable of growing up to about 1,500 feet in length.
Fleet Air Arm praised as vital naval force in wartime
A British naval article catalogs the Fleet Air Arm's rise from a quiet service to a key branch, noting its role in protecting convoys, sinking enemy ships, and the Taranto attack. It details aircraft types like the Swordfish and Fulmar and the shift of control to the Navy in 1939, highlighting its ongoing carrier and shore operations.
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Navy
Fleet Air Arm
Naval Air Arm
North Sea
Atlantic
Ark Royal
Norway
Admiralty
Royal Naval Air Service
R.N.A.S
R.af
R.A.F
Britain
H.M.S. Daedalus
H.M.S. Kestrel
H.M.S. Peregrine
Taranto
Dartmouth to Inaugurate Canada History Course
Dartmouth College in New Hampshire will offer a new course next semester on the history and development of Canada. Professor Wayne E. Stevens, a longtime Canada scholar, will teach and emphasize aspects relevant to American students and the growing relation between the United States and Canada.
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American College
the Dominion
Dartmouth College
New Hampshire
Canada
Wayne E. Stevens
Stevens
The Chinese li and India's Gersoppa Falls Power Plan
A Chinese li is described as one hundredth of a day's walk, about a third of a mile on level ground. Gersoppa Falls in India, dropping 829 feet into a 132 foot pool, are to be harnessed for hydro power. Roosevelt praised appeasement with the remark that a tiger cannot be turned into a kitten by stroking it.
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Gersoppa
India
Roosevelt
Pigs Replace Sheep in Hyde Park Central Pen
Police guard a pig pen at Hyde Park central area surrounded by trees. Officers feed the pigs daily with refuse from police canteens and oversee a pig club with a subdivisional inspector on the committee to keep arrangements organized.
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Hyde Park
London
Royal Parks
Canada concentrated milk output rises in 1940 first eleven months
Canada's production of concentrated milk for January through November 1940 reached 183,007,654 pounds, up from 155,289,425 pounds in the same period of 1939.
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Canada
Empty feeling of stepping on a missing running board
A vivid line reflects on the fear and emptiness of a car hazard where a running board should be but is absent, leaving the passerby exposed and cautious about the car’s accessible edge.
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Men of Navy
Woerd
Alice
Jen Wousemold
North Carolina
Whynot
Earth
British Fleet Air Arm
Saskatchewan Red Cross
W. F. Marshall
Regina
Liverpool
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