The Soldier and the Woman in a Midnight New York Stand
In a cocktail lounge Julie meets Peter Granville a first lieutenant on leave. He warns of a kidnapping plan but the pair grow closer discussing marriage ex spouses and self change as they plan to spend the night together at a borrowed apartment. They form a tentative future as comrades in the newsroom life ahead.
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Peter
Julie
Peter Granville
New York
Bud
Granville
Cornelius
Pete
Cornelius Peter Granville
Pete Granville
World Food Loss From Pests Weighs Heavy
Scientists told the United Nations FAO that pests destroy about one tenth of the annual harvest of cereals beans and seeds, amounting to roughly 72.5 million tons. Rodents would consume 25 million tons and insects 36.25 million tons, worsening global famine concerns.
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United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
Ambitious Wren Sharp Aims for Architectural Drafting
Wren Marjorie Sharp hopes to study architectural drafting after discharge. Navy officials in Regina doubted a woman could enter the field, but Blanche Lemco, a female architect, persuaded them. A course starts at the Canadian Vocational School in Regina, reflecting Sharp’s preference for drawing over typing or bookkeeping.
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Wren Marjorie Sharp
Navy
Regina
Barbara Humphrys
VLA
Wren Sharp
Blanche Lemco
City Planning Office
Miss Lemco
Scott Collegiate
Regina Avenue
Albatross Trap Forms in Australian Valley
A natural trap in Australia creates a steep-walled valley where albatrosses without wind lose altitude and crash into a cliff. Burrowing owls uniquely nest underground among land birds.
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Australia
Undefended Canada US border stretched to 5655 miles
Health Minister Claxton told Kiwanis clubs in Ogdensburg and Ottawa that the undefended border is 5 655 miles long and every inch remains unprotected. The talk included border anecdotes from Rock Island Vermont to Quebec campaigns and a farmer’s boundary dispute.
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Ottawa
Claxton
Kiwanis Clubs
Ogdensburg
N.Y
Rock Island
Vermont
Canada
United States
Quebec
Davidson
Roosevelt
Tax Assessors Office
United States-Canada
Wartime policy offers transient labor rations for farmers
Extra Help Farmers may apply to the wartime prices and trade board for transient labor rations when serving twelve meals or more to temporary hired help. If the worker stays over two weeks, the farmer can use the employee's ration book, treating the worker as a household member for meat, sugar, preserves and butter coupons as they become valid.
London Blitz Unexploded Bombs Threaten City
The article notes nearly ten tons of high explosive remain in 21 unexploded German bombs under Greater London sites. Capt. G. A. Frake of the Royal Engineers reports seven bombs being dealt with while two newly found have been abandoned as not a public danger after past detonations such as Stan the 1,000-pounder at Croydon.
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Greater London
G. A. Frake
Royal Engineers
No. 2
Stan
Croydon
New Industry This Atomic Age Alberta To Launch $100 Million
Dr E B Moore tells Royal Society of Canada in Toronto that mankind cannot destroy the world with a single atomic blast. He cites ancient rock formations in Eastern Ontario and Southern Quebec showing life 1.8 billion years ago and notes the earth would experience only a local effect from a nuclear explosion due to scarce fissionable material.
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Alberta
E. 8. Moore
Royal Society of Canada
Toronto
Dr. Moore
Alberta to launch large timber and wood products industry
Edmonton Bulletin reports a major new Alberta venture backed by the Dominion and provincial governments and large Canadian financiers. The plan envisions purchasing timber from High Prairie to Dawson Creek and Peace River, erecting a vast processing plant to produce furniture and prefab buildings for continent wide distribution, creating thousands of jobs.
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Alberta
Edmonton Bulletin
Dominion
High Prairie
Alta
Dawson Creek
B.C
Peace River
Baked Cheese Eggs a la Mode Recipe
A vintage style recipe for Baked Cheese Eggs uses hard boiled egg halves filled with a cheese dressing and vegetables, topped with buttered cornflake crumbs and baked. It yields 4 to 6 servings and reflects classic midcentury kitchen instructions.
Former French engineer may aid Canada in toy production
Philippe Herzan, a former radio engineer for the French underground who escaped via Spain two years ago, operates a small plant in Toronto where musical toys are mass produced. He could help Canada supplant Germany and Japan as leading toy producers.
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Toronto
Philippe Herzan
Canada
Germany
Japan
Herzan
France
Spain
Specially Sweet Easter Dress Pattern 4677
Anne Adams offers pattern 4677 a dainty Easter dress with its own jacket and sunfrock option. Available in sizes 2 4 6 8 10 size 6 requires 15 yards of 25 inch fabric. Send 20 cents in coins with name address and size to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Manitoba.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
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Prince Andrew Shirinsky-Shirmatoff
Firestone
Speedway
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