World Happenings Briefly Told
The United Kingdom plans a 1946 secret service budget of £25 million with a token 2100 in 1945. The U S war department seeks broader Negro manpower in peacetime and potential future war. Lord Nuffield says Britain will supply dominions with steady goods flow. A Glasgow porter buys a £5100 necklace for an anonymous buyer. European calories skid below 2000 daily. Bertram C. Webber of the Dominion Meteorological Bureau dies in Toronto. Hugh Dalton’s April budget unlikely to offer relief. Civil and defence outlay for 1946-47 around £4 billion. Bermuda invites white or colored nurses for three-plus years in England. Ontario tourism: Col Arthur Welsh says 20,000,000 U S residents may visit Canada this year.
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Hugh Dalton
Arthur Welsh
Ontario
Ontario Tourist Department
United States
Canada
Aga Khan weighed in diamonds before 60000 followers
The Aga Khan, seated on a gilded chair, was weighed pound for pound against diamonds totaling 24344 pounds. A 32 carat blue diamond valued at $200000 led the stones, bought mostly by princes and rajahs to fund Ismaili welfare, as the ceremony marked his 60th year.
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Aga Khan
Aspiring graduate seeks bank vice presidency in snappy encounter
A young college graduate named Gradwell Lesserman visits a New York bank asking for an executive role. The manager jokes that twelve vice presidents already exist, prompting the hopeful reply I am not superstitious. The piece then notes Alaskan sourdoughs growing vegetables on sod-covered roof cabins.
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New York
Gradwell Lesserman
Mongoose Fights Poisonous Snakes in Beworld Clash
A short report notes a mongoose that hunts cobras in India struggles against faster venomous snakes in Bew world 2664. The strange observation hints at a unusual predator dynamics across realms.
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India
Garden grouping of vegetables and lawn building basics
The article divides vegetables into three planting groups hardy semi hardy and tender with examples. It also covers lawn establishment advising early sowing in suitable weather and proper soil preparation plus methods to improve soil including manure and green manures for urban gardens.
Super-Heat Material Britain Introduces Ultra Light Blanket
Britain unveils a blanket weighing thirty three ounces per full size with Fortsan silk cover and pure fleece stuffing. It is shrink moth and rot proof, traps air pockets for maximum warmth with minimal weight. Export focus notes broad applications from gowns to cot covers. A separate machine fact shows 400 names a minute at 40 hours weekly would take two years eight months to count US population.
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Britain
United States
Canada can grow beyond twenty million say Windsor Star
Will Be argues Canada has no population limit and can support more than 20 million. He compares to Britain’s 40 to 50 million and notes immigration may slow but demand remains high as Europe fears war and sees Canada as a safe homeland for children. The piece endorses Canada’s growth potential.
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W. L. Clark
Windsor Star
Canada
Dominion
Great Britain
Europe
Wedding Rice Returns From 26 Year Old Feast
In Ipswich England Lieut John Holbauer of Milwaukee announced his coming marriage to an English girl. A package from his parents contained rice saved from their wedding over 26 years ago. The rice reappeared not as toss but as a rice pudding at the ceremony.
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Atlantic
Ipswich
England
John Holbauer
Milwaukee
Wis
Financial Post
Polish Troops Abroad to Return Home Promise Safe Demobilization
A foreign office spokesman quoted explicit assurances from the Warsaw government that Polish troops coming back to Poland would not be molested for their political beliefs. British officials predicted their early demobilization.
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Foreign Office
Warsaw
Poland
Nelson Column in Trafalgar Square Holds Strong During Blitz
The Nelson Column in London’s Trafalgar Square survived heavy bombing and V bombs as steeplejack W Larkins climbed 145 feet to inspect the statue. The column’s endurance is cited as a morale booster during the wartime siege and the centenary of its erection.
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Nelson
Trafalgar Square
London
W. Larkins
Westminster
Copenhagen
Montreal Gazette
Yokouska Island Splits Into Twin Volcanic Masses
Yokouska, the world’s newest island located about 200 miles south of Tokyo, has split into two steaming volcanic masses rising to 70 feet. The twin humps are nearly identical in size and are separated by a 50 foot channel of boiling water with white steam puffing from fissures around the brown base.
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Yokouska
Tokyo
Candidate sweats through woodwork for rural widow vote
A legislative candidate labors over a wood sawing task to win the rural widow's favor as she jokes about another suitor. The scene ends with a chuckling remark about a rival churning in the kitchen while nuts are noted for their protein content.
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The
Wall Street Journal
Mr. Billings
Letter urges pasteurization to shield children from TB
A Vancouver Daily Province reader from West Summerland cites her three year old son in Crippled Children's Hospital as TB spine caused by unpasteurized milk. She urges nationwide compulsory pasteurization, noting no local pasteurized milk and offering home pasteurizing guidance from Health League of Canada.
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Canada
Vancouver
West Summerland
Crippled Children’s Hospital
T.B
British Columbia
Dominion
Health League of Canada
111 Avenue Road
Toronto 5
Ontario
Expensive Ideas Move East by Going Far West
A lecturer quips that since the earth is round one could reach east by traveling far west, a remark that inspires a taxi driver joke about imaginative plans and costly schemes.
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United States War Department
Lord Nuffield
Capetown
Australia
Dominions
Glasgow
Foreign Economic Administration
Bertram C. Webber
Dominion Meteorological Bureau
Toronto
Sir Frederick Stupart
Bermuda
Bombay
Persia
Iran
Allah Ho
Akbar
Canadian Army
ARMY
Regina
Maple Creek
G. D. Menzies
Prince Albert
M. P. Kelly
Kerrobert
R. Syrette
Crutweill
A. Klein
Killaly
P. J. Seiferling
Sedley
R. Geres
Gravelbourg
S. F. Andrunyk
Saskatoon
G. J. Bannon
Winnipeg
Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Germany
Austria
Adolf Hitler
By Fred Neher
O.K
YOUNG
NEA Service
BY William Ferguson
Briarcliff
Laddie Seth
Springfield
Mass
Gene Byrnes
LW. Schmidt
Aiweawkee
ED Hanson
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