Canada’s wartime research network praised for global impact
The article credits Canada’s universities and the National Research Council under Dr. C. J. McKenzie for a vast wartime research program supporting the United Nations effort. It notes postwar plans to expand facilities, push peacetime projects, and aid housing, health, food while aiding reconstruction and employment growth for Canadians.
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Canada
United Nations
National Research Council
C. J. McKenzie
Engineering
Saskatchewan University
H. H. Lank
Canadian Industries Limited
Research Council
Department of Reconstruction
Studies on Agricultural Surpluses in Western Provinces
The Western Provinces focus on utilizing agricultural surpluses and wastes. Wheat starch yields an excellent anti freeze and serves as a base for valuable chemical products. The report stresses the need for increased funding to sustain wartime gains in research and support scientific workers.
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Fhe
Canada
Dodd's Kidney Pills Advertised for Backache Relief
An advertisement promotes Dodd's Kidney Pills as a remedy for backache caused by lazy kidney action. It claims kidneys failing to remove acids lead to pain and fatigue and urges demand for the blue box with a red band, noting availability everywhere.
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Dodd
Advertising Push Spurs Sales in 1946 Forecast
Marketing's annual forecast shows a 15 to 20 percent rise in overall spending for sales and advertising in 1946. Higher spend is expected across newspapers magazines radio direct mail posters and streetcar ads, aided by greater goods availability and a stronger second half-year.
Camouflage Ships Vary by Ocean Theatres
The article notes ships camouflage effectiveness depends on water color and atmospheric conditions across ocean regions. It also states eye control directs most limb movement and closing eyes causes a person to walk in circles.
Kipling Howlers Spark Search for Hidden Slipups
In a Sunday Times piece an English clergyman claims Kipling’s On the Road to Mandalay hides 17 errors and more so called howlers prompt others to probe. Cmdr. Gerard notes Bread Upon the Waters contains a nautical error with three red lights in a vertical line. The Montreal Gazette adds that even Sir Walter Scott Shakespeare Homer nods.
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Sunday Times
Rudyard Kipling
Mandalay
Kipling
Cmdr
W. G. Gerard
Royal Navy
Sir Walter Scott
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Shakespeare
Avon
Hamlet
Manchester lift firm to use air fleet for servicing network
A Manchester firm that builds lifts and shutters plans a new servicing scheme using an Auster aircraft to fly supplies and technicians to customers. The first plane will lead a fleet operating between factories and customers across Europe. The pilot is a former bomber pilot who worked for the firm before World War II.
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Manchester
Europe
No Cause for Alarm About Sun Heating Up
Scientists warn the sun is getting hotter as it burns, not cooler, suggesting humanity may need to migrate to another planet in the far future. Current rate, however, implies comfortable conditions for several billion years.
Price Control And Rationing Information
Q and A guidance on token circulation for butchers and housekeepers to ease rationing. Details cover tire and tube pricing by wartime board, sugar coupon transitions to S coupons, and turning in ration books after death. Include request for pamphlet Consumers' News or the Blue Book from Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices.
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Prices and Trade Board
Prices Board
Consumers’ News
Wartie Prices and Trade Board
Germans Develop Sound Gun in Final War Effort
Col. Leslie E. Simon of Aberdeen Proving Ground told American and supersonics researchers in Maryland that Germany experimented with a sound weapon designed to kill a man in 30 to 40 seconds. He said the device’s development was halted by Allied victory and urged further study of its latent possibilities.
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Army Ballistics
Supersonics
Maryland
Leslie E. Simon
Ballistics Research Laboratory
Aberdeen Proving Ground
Col. Simon
Ninth annual CAPC Canada scholarship attracts broad entries
The Composers Authors and Publishers Association of Canada invites entries for its ninth annual 750 scholarship. President H. T. Jamieson notes wide national interest with strong western participation and cooperation from provincial education departments. He cites composer prospects Robert Fleming Saskatoon Jean Coulthard Adams Vancouver and Minuetta Borek Calgary as examples of latent Canadian talent.
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Composers Authors and Publishers Association of Canada
Dominion
West Provinces
H. T. Jamieson
Canada
Jamieson
Robert Fleming
Saskatoon
Jean Coulthard Adams
Vancouver
Minuetta Borek
Calgary
Plan to withdraw occupation forces in Germany sent to Washington
The Daily Express in Berlin says American economic planners submitted a five to ten year withdrawal plan and a peace treaty with a new German government. An Allied industrial secret service would monitor German industry for 25 to 50 years. The dispatch notes home pressure could push U S policy toward early withdrawal of occupation forces.
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The
Daily Express
Berlin
U.S. Control Council
Germany
Reich
Washington
State Department
United States
Allied Control Council
the Express
Navy plans seven postwar fleets with 1079 ships
The United States Navy says it will run seven active postwar fleets. Of 1079 combatant ships, 319 are in active service, 73 in ready reserve, and 687 in laid up status. Ships will be allocated to three Atlantic fleets, three Pacific fleets, and one fleet covering Mediterranean and European waters.
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United States Navy
Atlantic
Pacific
Mediterranean
European
Package Bees Demand Prompt Orders For Spring Imports
Dominion Apiarist C. B. Gooderham warns that importing package bees this spring should be ordered now to avoid late or missing deliveries as the active season begins.
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C. B. Gooderham
Dominion Apiarist
Crossword puzzle clues list puzzle grid solution
A list of horizontal and vertical crossword clues with numbers and word prompts covering various word categories such as obscure terms, common phrases, and thematic entries. The grid references include positions like 1 6 8 and 12 across and down, suggesting a standard newspaper puzzle layout.
Spaak Wins U.N.O. Presidency Over Lie
Henri Spaak defeated Trygve Lie by 28 to 23 to become the first U.N.O. assembly president. The Belgian leader’s victory marks a setback for Russia and eastern Europe which had sought Lie by acclamation to avoid secret balloting.
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U.N.O
Henri Spaak
League of Nations
Trygve Lie
U.N.O. Assembly
Russia
Bloc of
Eastern Europe
Lie
Smile Awhile Jokes and Quips From Daily Laughs
A humor collage features quick one liners and exchanges about pastors resignations, slim cooks, cloak room tips, sharks, seasickness, long talk by Brown’s wife, and universal disarmament with punch lines. It includes a tramp, a doctor, and a sleepy caller in a late night lullaby.
Western Canada Bread Wheat Crowned World Master
The bread wheat grown in Western Canada is praised as the finest in the world with the prairies often called the bread basket. In critical food-shortage months the West lives up to the world granary label and uses its wheat surplus for export.
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Canada
Prairies
West
Canada plans permanent air force to meet any future attack
An air force official said Canada will maintain a permanent air force “on the top line of preparation” to deter all conceivable threats including space ships and atomic weapons. The move accompanies a new civilian-to-military recruiting drive for ground crew trades and emphasizes readiness against future aggression.
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Canada
Air Force
Moone's Emerald Oil Promises Skin Relief Across Canada
This antiseptic remedy known as Moone's Emerald Oil is promoted as effective for eczema barber's itch salt rheum and other skin eruptions. It is described as pleasant to use antiseptic and penetrating and claims to relieve long standing cases with few days use and offers satisfaction or money back.
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Canada
Moone
Quotes on Charity and Benevolence From Classic Authors
A collection of concise aphorisms on charity and benevolence from Adam Smith Thackeray Quarles Eddy Richter and Middleton. The quotes praise selflessness kindness justice and Christian charity and urge action in ordinary life.
Celebrated Birthday Of The News Chronicle
The News Chronicle marked its 100th birthday on January 28 as a liberal daily paper born from the Daily News under Charles Dickens. Pigeon’s blood rubies command far higher prices than equally sized diamonds.
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News Chronicle
Britain
The
Daily News
Charles Dickens
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