Britain’s Moving Picture Industry Hopes After War Ends
UK film industry battered by two wars plans expansion postwar as government holds studios for war use. Officials expect a rise in British production with Sir Alexander Korda predicting half the screen time in British theatres will be British within five years and J Arthur Rank pushing for global distribution.
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Bitain
United Kingdom
Capt. C. Waterhouse
Board of Trade
House of Commons
Sir Alexander Korda
United States
J. Arthur Rank
Gaumont-British
Odeon
Canada
Rank
George Bernard Shaw
Britain
Toronto Schoolboys Demonstrate Post Snow Price Effects
After a major snowstorm in Toronto with schools closed two boys earned 21 in a day while six others made 15 shoveling a single apartment. The piece notes how price setting shows what no price ceiling would bring and mocks past 25 cent rewards.
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Toronto
Beavers Rebuild Dam Beside West Farmington Rail Line
A long running clash unfolds as Alfred Cowan and crew fight daily to stop a beaver dam washing the track near West Farmington. Each morning the beavers rebuild the dam, continuing the struggle in a stubborn cycle.
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Maine Central Railroad
Alfred Cowan
West Farmington
Japanese Radio Claims Inventive Lead Over Allies
The FCC recorded a Batavia controlled radio broadcast boasting Japanese invention. It cited four supposed military devices including a plane far larger than the B 29 for directing piloted and unmanned weapons, a city destroying ray, a detector for B 29s and submarines, and airborne chemicals to disable enemy aircraft engines.
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Batavia Radio
Federal Communications Commission
Radio
Asahi
Bible Readers Grow Among Young Americans
Dr Gallup reports a rise in United States Bible readers with 64 percent of the population in the latest year. Among ages 21 to 29 the figure rose from 48 percent in 1942 to 57 percent last year. Woman readers outpace men and farmers outread city residents, with the South showing the highest share and New England the lowest.
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Dr Gallup
United States
South
New England
Middle Atlantic States
Chinese Everlasting Lily Echoes Rare Flower Promise
The Chinese Everlasting Lily is said to bloom only once in forty or fifty years, with just one plant in about ten thousand producing a flower. Giving a Lily with one full bloom and one bud is the traditional Chinese gesture of complimenting a friend.
An Unusual Hobby Of Golden Anniversary Photos
Dean J. A. Hill a wool expert and college of agriculture instructor at the University of Wyoming collects pictures of couples celebrating their golden anniversaries. He believes longer marriages make people look alike and keeps in touch with friends through these photos. He plans to close the books when he meets a couple married for 100 years.
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Dean J. A. Hill
College of Agriculture
University of Wyoming
Dean Hill
Parachute pioneer's a tombstone mystery in Ottawa Journal
The Ottawa Journal recalls Robert Cocking an early parachute descent from a balloon. His mossy tombstone in Black Heath churchyard notes he died July 25 1837 at Burnt Ash field during an experimental parachute descent from the Great Nassau balloon. A brother aeronaut erected the stone in 1903. Buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
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London
Ottawa Journal
Robert Cocking
Blackheath
Nassau
Aeronaut
Fluffy ruffies apron crochet pattern 7361
Simple pastels or white crochet apron pattern 7361. Instructions cover mer cerized cotton stitches for a dainty glamorous apron. Send twenty cents in coins to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union with name address and pattern number. Expect delays due to mail.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue E
Winnipeg
Man
Lethbridge Leads in O D E Service Library Drive
LOC D E Campaign says Lethbridge Alberta became the first Canadian community to surpass its objective in the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire service library drive. The announcement notes the city exceeded its goal as part of the nationwide effort.
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Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire
Lethbridge
Alberta
Canada
The Many Narrow Escapes Of Premier Churchill
Premier Churchill dodged snipers and survived plane crashes and battlefield peril across continents. The list recounts episodes from 1892 Bournemouth to 1931 New York, noting near death in India Cuba South Africa and the Western Front, with several crashes and a fatal companion in 1931.
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Churchill
John Sutton
Remier Churchill
Athens
Cuba
Mr. Churchill
India
Omdurman
South Africa
Lympne
Buc
France
New York
One Woman Holds Wartime Roles in English Village
Mrs. P. M. Rowell of Northill Grange Bedfordshire serves as parish councillor and village hall chairwoman, presides over the women's institute, acts as chief salvage steward and vitamin distributor, and serves as Ministry of Information correspondent. She also drives in the volunteer car pool and participates in the Women's Voluntary Association, parochial church council, church social committee, Soldiers' Sailors' and Air Force Benevolent Fund, local comforts fund, and a first aid party, while managing home life with husband and four children.
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Women's Institute
Ministry of Information
Women's Voluntary Association
Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Air Force Benevolent Fund
Local Comforts Fund
P. M. Rowell
Northill Grange
Bedfordshire
Britain
London Daily Mail
Writing Letters for Lasting Keepsakes
Peterborough Examiner advises that vivid simple letters convey life without ornate prose. Keep letters as keepsakes by storing them in a trunk or cupboard for future generations.
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Peterborough Examiner
Fortisan Fibre Claimed World’s Strongest
A special fibre manufactured in Britain by British Celanese Ltd is claimed to be the strongest in the world. The Fortisan fibre has wartime uses including parachute canopies and cords for dropping supplies from aircraft.
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Britain
British Celanese, Ltd
First worsted mill in Bradford erected nearly 150 years ago
The article recalls Bradford England’s pioneering worsted mill, built about a century and a half ago, marking a foundational era in the city’s textile industry and industrial history.
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Bradford
England
Saskatchewan’s Lady Mayor a Milestone for Women in Saskatoon
Mrs. John T. McOrmond became the first woman elected mayor of Sutherland Saskatchewan on January 1, after nine years on the town council. Aged 42, she advocates women and men working together, and she welcomed Major David V. Currie VC to Saskatoon.
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J. T. McOrmond
David V. Currie
V.C
Moose Jaw
Owen Sound
Sutherland
Saskatchewan
Saskatoon
McOrmond
Canadian Pacific Railway
Major Currie
C.P.R
Falaise Gap
David
Mayor McOrmond
John T. McOrmond
David Currie
Charles R. McOrmond
John McOrmond
Fighting Forces
Gordon
RCAF
R. H. More
Montreal
Physicians killed and dying in service in 1944 report
The Journal of the American Medical Association notes seventy U.S. physicians were killed in action in 1944 and 113 died while in military service. The article also mentions the first white settlement in Australia at modern Sydney in 1788, linking historical events.
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United States
Journal of the American Medical Association
Australia
Sydney
1788
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Holland
Bournemouth
Switzerland
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