Atlantic Air Traffic Surges as Planes Fill Sky Routes
A New York Times dispatch details how the North and South Atlantic air lanes overflow with planes, forcing pilots to maintain 1000 feet spacing, manage weather, and stay alert during takeoff. Veterans, Army fliers, and volunteers share cautious experiences as hourly radio reports guide master charts.
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Europe
Atlantic
Russell Owen
New York Times
North
South
Air Transport Command
Ocean
South America
Africa
Cape Farewell
Greenland
Farewell
North Atlantic
Scotland
England
Wales
British Isles
First Canadian woman to serve as flag lieutenant for admiral
Lieut Marion O'Toole of Montreal becomes the first woman flag lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy. She serves Rear-Admiral H. E. Reid and attends official functions aboard ships such as the HMC S Unganda in the Pacific. She compares notes with Mareen Stuart-Clarke, flag lieutenant to Sir James Somerville, in the Royal Navy.
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Royal Canadian Navy
Lieut
Marion O'Toole
Montreal
H. E. Reid
C.B
R.C.N
Canadian Joint Staff
Wash
Ington
Pacific
Lieut O'Toole
Royal Naval Service
Mareen Stuart-Clarke
James Somerville
Royal Navy
Britain’s hush-hush scientist touts Canada as wartime research hub
Charles Seymour Wright, Toronto-born Chief of Scientific Research for the British Admiralty, spoke in Toronto praising Canada for aiding war science and urged continued peacetime research. He envisions Canada as a bridge between Britain and the United States, highlighting facilities like Research Enterprises Limited and the National Research Council.
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Britain
Toronto
Charles Seymour Wright
British Admiralty
Wright
Admiralty
Canada
Germany
United Nations
United States
Research Enterprises, Limited
Leaside
National Research Council
Losses in Britain's Merchant Navy Named by Hurcomb
Sir Cyril Hurcomb, director general of the ministry of war transport, states that during the war more than 30,000 merchant navy men died. He also reports about 4,000 wounded 4,000 interned or captured and 4,700 missing.
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Britain
Cyril Hurcomb
Ministry of War Transport
Britain’s wartime forest losses and postwar reforestation plan
The St Thomas Times Journal notes Britain felled about 130 million trees during the war, with 4,000,000 tons of lumber cut and vast gaps in timber stands. It details the shift from four to fifty percent timber use in wartime, sources cut off, and the need for Canada to supply housing programs as Britain and Canada prepare the largest forestry effort in history.
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A.T.C
Ocean
Newfoundland
Greenland
Iceland
Europe
Britain
Sweden
Finland
Russia
Baltic States
Canada
United States
West Africa
Portugal
Brazil
Canadia Forestry Corps
British Isles
Dominion
St Thomas
British scientists barred from Soviet visit over war needs
Thirty British scientists who were set to visit Russia for the Soviet Academy of Sciences meeting have been forbidden by the British Government. The war effort against Japan was cited as the reason, and their services are deemed too essential to be interrupted.
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Russia
Soviet Academy of Sciences
Japan
History Was Made In The Air Over Britain By Canadian Airmen
Canadian airmen of the RCAF operated across Britain from Yorkshire to Devon and Wiltshire, basing at Allerton Hall near York and Bircham Newton in Norfolk. They linked legend and landscape from Wuthering Heights to Towton and Hastings, with London HQ at Holborn.
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Britain
Frank Tinsley
England
Rc.a.f
RCAF
Yorkshire
Canada
Emily Bronte
Wutherings Heights
Marston Moor
Towton
Allerton Hall
Bomber Group
Earl of Mowbray
Rcaf Coastal Command
Demon
Bircham Newton
Norfolkshire
Fen
Devon
Vale of the White Horse
Wiltshire
Lynx
Husky
Tom Brown
Alfred
Ashdown
Dragon's Hill
St. George
Vancouver
Cambridge
Prince Cantaber
Spain
Plymouth Hoe
Drake
Cornwall
Hastings
Kent
William the Conqueror
Hitler
Lorna Doone
Liverpool
Warrington
Ean
Gloucester
London
Holborn
Lincoln's Inn Fields
Rcaf Overseas
Ottawa
Tain
Inverness
Scotland
Castle Archdale
Pembroke Dock
Northern Ireland
Anglesay
British film firms plan postwar expansion abroad says Rank
Arthur Rank, the British film producer, outlined plans to expand production and distribution in Canada Latin America and Europe during a two month North American tour. He noted 120 Canada theatres and sites for many more after the war with a Latin American HQ to open in autumn and British films for Spain France and China being dubbed. He said both British and American stars would be used.
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Arthur Rank
Canada
Latin America
Europe
United States
North America
California
Rank
Spain
France
China
Crochet Square Pattern 7081 for Doilies and Scarfs
Dainty and useful crochet square pattern 7081 offers 12 to 16 inch squares for pillow tops doilies or scarfs. Send twenty cents in coins to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue Winnipeg Man with name address and pattern number. Mail delays may occur.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue E
Winnipeg
Man
Duchess of Kent to Visit Ulster This Summer
The Duchess of Kent will make her first Ulster visit this summer. She had planned to travel with the late Duke of Kent before the war to launch a ship but could not due to political events in Ulster at that time.
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Duchess of Kent
Ulster
Duke of Kent
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Nicholas II
Calhoun Ancrum, Jr
U.S.A
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S.C
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J. L. Ilsley
Gilbert Johnson
R.C.A.F
All Canada
Alice Brooks
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