World Briefly Told Aboard Wartime Headlines
Soviet scientists work on television for inspecting ships hulls and sea floor objects. Jim Mollison clothes stolen from a car before his London to India flight. A boat returns from the English Channel with a pound bomb disposed by specialists. Japan to tax 90 billion yen in special taxes. Dr Waksman predicts a breakthrough against the common cold. Switzerland to donate 10,600 tons of food to undernourished children in Europe. Mrs Mary Crawshaw, 74, flies 6,500 miles to Bristol to visit relatives. India to send medical aid to Indians in Malaya workers on the Burma Siam railway. Cologne Rhine bridge to be named Patton Bridge in honor of General Patton.
Drug Test Warns Streptomycin May Increase Deaths
FDA researchers report danger area where the antibiotic streptomycin raises deaths from infection rather than reducing them. Penicillin may share this effect. tests on over 2000 mice show dosage determines whether the drug kills or cures. Human results unknown, but Dr. Henry Welch notes improper dosage may worsen outcomes.
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United States Food and Drug Administration
Henry Welch
Welch
Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association
Furious Queen Victoria Opposed to Women’s Rights
BBC Bulletin describes a London overseas feature series highlighting three women active in emancipation. Queen Victoria is portrayed as the fiercest opponent, calling the movement a mad folly and warning it would unseat womanliness and destroy protection for the weaker sex.
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Queen Victoria
London
BBC
Valuable Arab horses arrive in Liverpool aboard Orbita
Two royal gifts from Emir Abdullah of Trans-Jordan reach Liverpool on the Orbita. Experts project a brood stock sale value up to £7000 for the mares, with potential price around $31,150 in American dollars.
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Abdullah
Trans-Jordan
Elizabeth
Margaret
Liverpool
Amsterdam professor envisions cosmic ray bomb
Windsor Star quotes a University of Amsterdam professor imagining a cosmic ray device far stronger than the atomic bomb. He laments the loss of interest in plumbing among scientists as a potential safer alternative.
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Amsterdam University
Medical Aid Reaches Northern Outpost In Mercy Flight
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police constable in Fort Chimo alerted the need for medical help guiding a mercy flight. An RC AF Dakota aircraft carried Dr H W Lewis and others to Crystal One airbase near Ungava Bay for examinations. Fourty natives gathered for care with three flown to Halifax General Hospital for treatment.
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R.C.A.F
Indian Health Division
Department of National Health and Welfare
George MacKay
R.cm.p
Fort Chimo
Ungava Bay
Quebec
R.ca.f
Dartmouth
N.S
H. W. Lewis
East and West Arctic
S. J. Bailey
Yukon
North West Territories
G. H. Edgecombe
Public Health Engineering
Crystal One
Martin Brewer
Halifax General Hospital
Joe Pochene
Constable MacKay
Bailey
Edgecombe
W. J. Michalski
No. 164 Squadron
R.c.af
Ancient ruins unearthed across France since 1939
The article notes widespread excavations in France from 1939 revealing Roman villa remains in Aix-en-Provence with mosaics and Ionic capitals, a Greek site in Grassi gardens, and Celtic-Ligurian settlements near a German anti-aircraft post. It mentions war damage to churches in Valenciennes and discoveries of warlike busts and a lintel.
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Lot-et-Garonne
Var
Valenciennes
Aix-en-Provence
Aix
France
Canada
Making Sound Films at National Film Board Explained
A National Film Board tour explains how film sound is produced. Music is recorded with an orchestra while dialogue and effects are logged on separate tracks. Each track is timed to action and combined into a final soundtrack printed beside the film.
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Sound Department
National Film Board
Berlin
Freemen Of London Admit Freedom with Red Book Rules
On admission to the freedom of the City of London freemen receive a red book under the City arms titled Rules for the Conduct of Life. The 36 rules combine worldly wisdom with piety and fear of the Lord, reflecting forefatherly character. No author is named and the work has no dedication or introduction.
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City of London
Scuttle But: Sailor Gossip Origin in Old Ships
The term scuttle but arose from sailors gathering around a water barrel between masts to drink and chat, turning a water break into a time for news exchange. Though the cask and vigilant guard vanished, the word endures as a synonym for gossip.
Musical toys push in Canada led by ex French engineer
Philippe Herzan a former radio engineer for the French underground who escaped from France via Spain two years ago operates a small plant in Toronto where musical toys are mass produced as Canada aims to rival Germany and Japan as a leading toy producer.
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Toronto
Philippe Herzan
Canada
Germany
Japan
Herzan
France
Spain
Game bird diversity tops North American continent
North America houses more species of game birds than any other continent, highlighting its rich avian variety across habitats and regions. The finding underscores regional ecosystems supporting diverse game bird life.
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North America
Continent
Giant tree shears cut 213 foot diameter tree in seconds
Collier's Magazine describes a new giant tree shear mounted on a tractor that can sever a tree 213 feet across in 10 seconds with blade pressure up to 60 tons, likening the action to trimming a rose stem with scissors.
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Collier's Magazine
Pacific Ocean Depth Higher Than Atlantic
The Pacific Ocean has a greater mean depth than the Atlantic, indicating deeper seafloor overall. This contrast highlights broader oceanic depth variability between the two basins.
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Pacific Ocean
Atlantic
City orders pulque bars closed in Mexico City
The city government shuts down pulque bars in poverty areas after housewives complain their husbands waste time and money on the maguey juice beverage. A glass of pulque costs two cents.
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Mexico City
Seeping Ground Salve Used by Indians as Medicine
A fragment notes a natural seep used by Indigenous people as salve and medicine, indicating traditional medicinal practice and knowledge from the region.
New Governor General Installed For Malayan Union And Singapore
Malcolm MacDonald, former British High Commissioner to Canada, installed as Governor-General of the Malayan Union and Singapore. The ceremony echoed the surrender terms signed in the municipal chamber eight months earlier. Malay Sultans and their representatives were absent. The White Paper outlines a two administration structure, provoking opposition over the new relation to Britain and the sultanate status.
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Malcolm MacDonald
Canada
Singapore
Mr. MacDonald
Malayan Union
Straits Settlement
Britain
Birds steal mail as starling drops letter in rural box
Mail contractor John Carruthers watched a starling fly from a rural mailbox with a letter in its beak. He frightened the bird causing it to drop the item as a humorous note about early Spanish explorers finding peanuts in South America is recalled.
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Tillsonburg
John Carruthers
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Jim Mollison
India
English Channel
Selman A. Waksman
Europe
Mary Crawshaw
Bristol
England
Edmonton
Government of India
Malaya
Burma-Siam
Rhine
Cologne
Patton
George S. Patton, Jr
Aylwin, Que
Angus of
Aylwin
Que
Moosie
Ann Just
Freeman Cross’ Farm
Wealth League
Freemen of
Gene Byrnes
South America
Lyon
Alexandre Angeli
Paris
Angeli
Adolf Hitler
Rameses II
Mediterranean
Red Sea
By William Ferguson
Montreal
Budapest
Seine
Thames, St. Lawrence and Danube
Will -Yum
By Fred Neher
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