Blood Sweat And Tears in Britain War Effort Review
A British Ministry of Information article recalls Britain's role in Allied victory in Europe. It cites 5.5 million military aged personnel, civilian casualties totaling 57 000 dead and 79 000 injured by Aug 1944, destruction of one third of homes, and robot bomb damage exceeding one million homes after D Day.
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Ministry of Information
Britain
Europe
Churchill
Germany
United Kingdom
Britain Led War Materials Drive Behind Allied Front
The British war effort produced seventy percent of arms for UK Dominions India and Colonies up to D Day and supplied a third of US European theater gear from 1942 to 1944. By June 1944 Britain sent 1.2 billion dollars in supplies to Russia. After Europe’s occupation, Britain united patriots to oppose Nazi tyranny and now targets Japan with reconstruction ahead.
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United Kingdom
Dominions
United States
Russia
Europe
Britain
United Nations Front
Japan
Ministry of Information
Great Britain
Commonwealth
Quick relief for sore painful piles Hem-Roid offer
An advertisement promotes Hem-Roid internal treatment for piles claiming lasting relief by addressing root causes. It touts a 5 day home trial with money back guarantee and urges readers to test the product in privacy, promising easy bowel movements and healed hemorrhoids if effective.
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Canada
Inventor George Lan unveils multi function clock radio
A Riverton Manitoba Chinese merchant named George K Lan has created a wonder clock that tells hour day week month and year and includes a radio attachment that can wake a person to any radio program. The clock also switches to the chosen program during the day and powers the radio off automatically when the program ends.
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George K. Lan
Riverton
Man
Antarctica Rises to High Mean Elevation
The continent of Antarctica reaches an approximate mean altitude of 6000 feet, making it the highest landmass on Earth.
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Antarctica
Washington Cake Joke Recounts Two Washingsons
Former Russian ambassador Litvinoff toured the White House and tasted a Washington Cake with white filling. On a later train he asked a Negro waiter for Washington Cake and received chocolate cake. The exchange ends with the waiter noting two Washingsons George and Booker T.
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Earl Wilson
Litvinoff
United States
White House
Washington
George
Booker T
Origin of the English pound tied to wheat grain weight
The old English pound originated from the weight of 7,680 grains of dried wheat taken from the middle of the ear.
London churches hit as blitz scars city landscape
The blitz damaged or destroyed 66 churches across London during 1940 41 including St Pauls Westminster Abbey and Temple Church among famous targets while St Marys Islington revealed hidden carpentry beauty. The destruction spurred expert surveys to aid future church restorations.
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St. Mary-Le-Bow
Dick Whittington
London
St. Paul's
Westminster Abbey
Lambeth Palace
St. Stephen’s
Christopher Wren
St. Stephen's
Wren
Temple Church
Europe
Oliver Goldsmith
St. Leconard’s
Samuel Johnson
Austin Friars
Notre Dame de France
S St. Mary's
Islington
Britain
Price Control And Rationing Information Q and A
Wartime Prices and Trade Board answers include new rental rules for discharged veterans allowing re occupancy with three months notice, cost of living indices from 1918 to present, orange prices and size labeling, grapefruit juice supply outlook, and how to obtain pamphlets or ceiling price records. The column advises contacting a provincial Wartime Prices and Trade Board office.
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Prices Board
Consumers’ News
Prices and Trade Board
Educating The Nazi A Florence Governess Defies Arrest
An English governess in Florence faces Nazi control with cool defiance claiming her English identity. She refuses arrest, stating she cannot be taken to a camp, and remains in place as Allied forces approach.
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Italy
Florence
New Order
Leeds Yorkshire Post
Remains of Beth Yearah unearthed by Lake Tiberias shores
Archaeologists uncover remains of an ancient city named Beth Yearah along the shores of Lake Tiberias. The site is linked to Talmudic references and is described as possibly as old as Damascus. No further details on dating or findings are provided.
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Damascus
Lake
Tiberias
Beth Yearah
Humorous Observations and Oddities From 1920s Dialogues
A collage of brief lines and jokes about marriage money manners and mistaken identity. A soldier writes home from a POW camp asking for a fatted calf and a father replies with the same. An English tourist seeks novelty and declares he will stay home. A note on film costs cites 400000 dollars.
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Switzerland
Protecting Churchill A Difficult Duty For WWII Security
A London correspondent reports security officers faced heart shocks during wartime. Churchill’s visits to Roosevelt and Clyde outings drew crowds as guards tightened measures against leaks. On a Clyde departure he was waved at by G I crowds aboard a Queen Mary voyage.
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Britain
London
Roosevelt
Churchill
Greenock
H.M.S. Duke of York
Naval Headquarters
Clyde
Admiralty
Gareloch
Queen Mary
G.i.’S
Winston
Bread Baked by Rays Seen As New Industry Achievement
E R Taylor of George Weston Ltd speaks at the Canadian Manufacturers Association predicting major advances in Canadian baking. He notes sliced bread with mixed assortments in one package and bread baked by rays rather than in conventional ovens, already tested on a small scale.
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Canada
E. R. Taylor
George Weston Ltd
Toronto
Canadian Manufacturers’ Association
National Trust of England Private Property Holder
The National Trust of England is among the world’s largest private property holders owning over 400 historic buildings. Knole, a 365 room castle, once belonged to Queen Elizabeth. It is funded by member dues donations and a major grant from an American foundation of 1.4 million dollars.
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National Trust of England
Knole
Gems of Thought on Government and Public Life
A sequence of quotes on government philosophy by Henry Clay William Ellery Channing T B Macaulay and others. The passages emphasize trusteeship of government service self reliance divine law and the aim of removing selfish interests for a just public order. Strong names and ideas highlight the relationship between governance and virtue.
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