Surplus Canadian Corvettes Sold. Chin Chinchilla Cargo Landed
Dorval airport received a rare live chinchilla cargo valued at 65 000 dollars on a special plane to Montreal. Canada sold its 103 surplus corvettes and related craft. The Soviet Union plans a 20 500 000 acre boost to cultivation in the five year plan. Metropolitan police in Tokyo urged 50 policewomen with 1000 types of applicants. Kilkenny to remove a Gladstone bust from town hall. Gibraltar opens a police recruit school aligned with UK standards. Fleming awarded Harden Gold Medal 1946 for public health. Tibetan mission delivers congratulations letter to Viscount Wavell along with a ceremonial scarf.
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Dorval
Montreal
Soviet Union
Moscow Radio
Applies Anywhere Many People Eat Too Much
The Buffalo Courier Express notes the famine emergency drive calls for a 40 percent wheat and 20 percent fat reduction. It argues Americans are well fed and risk excess eating, warning against waste while urging cooperation in relief to improve health and save money.
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Buffalo Courier-Express
Europe
Asia
Upside Down Meat Loaf Weekender Menu Plan
A practical week end hospitality guide outlines meals balancing meat and fat use. It suggests an upside down meat loaf with sweet potato, then rounds through sausage Monday oyster stew Tuesday meat patties Wednesday steak and kidney pie Thursday and egg scallop Friday culminating with lamb chops Saturday or roast day, with tips on portions and accompaniments.
Alberta farmer to lead Ethiopian experimental farm project
Howard Thompson of Markerville Alberta has been commissioned to establish an Ethiopian government experimental farm while Haile Selassie was in exile. He will purchase nursery stock in Bowden area, ship seeds to Cairo, then airlift to Ethiopia for a three year contract. Thompson plans to settle there with his family, who must budget clothing for the period.
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Haile Selaasie
Ethiopia
England
Howard Thompson
Markerville
Alberta
Thompson
Bowden
Cairo
Mr. Thompson
Man proposes rubber ball atomic test with rabbits
Jean Lussier plans to seek US Navy permission to test a new rubber ball design against an atomic blast. He outlines three concentric balls, the largest 12 feet in diameter, housing rabbits with food for a week and lined with protective lead asbestos and cork, except for the inner rabbit quarters.
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Jean Lussier
Horseshoe Falls
United States Navy
Lussier
Naval
Operation Elephant and Churchill Shielded by Personal Flak
The Picture Post recounts Churchill’s security plan named Operation Elephant. An anti aircraft battery accompanied him, proudly called his personal flak, but it proved ineffective as he watched from rooftops. To avoid alarms, officials later stopped sounding air raids. The text closes with a note on the Japanese invention of the folding fan in the seventh century.
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Macdonald Hastings
Picture Post
Churchill
Britain
Elephant
Loss of Massey Marked by The Times as Chief Canadian Figure
The Times of London praised Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey upon his retirement as High Commissioner in London calling him the father of the Canadian Diplomatic Service and noting his leadership of Canadians in Britain during wartime. It highlighted his and Mrs Massey’s efforts to aid war service personnel and foster Canadian unity with Britain during peace and war.
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The
Times of London
Vincent Massey
London
Great Britain
Canada
Massey
the Times
Mrs. Massey
British Isles
Britain
Mr. Massey
Better Than Meal Sidney Gedge Recounts Nelson Column Escapade
The late Sidney Gedge recalls as a nine year old in London how he paid a shilling to climb Nelson Column only to find Nelson not yet erect and was forced to pay by the masons. He later says the elation of kissing the face was worth the hunger. The piece notes Britain’s longest rail runs from London to Edinburgh at 393 miles and London to Carlisle at 293 miles.
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Sidney Gedge
London School Board
London
Trafalgar Square
Nelson
Lord Nelson
Edinburgh
Carlisle
British Railways
Prefabricated Nairobi houses aim to ease African housing
A Nairobi building firm produces four room prefabricated houses with wooden floors and tiled roofs to address Africa's housing problem. Each unit costs about £160 and can be erected in one day. Separately, the sun loses about 4,000,000 tons of mass each second relative to its total mass of two billion billion tons.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Canada Faces Uncertain Butter Ration Hike Hope
O W Rodemar Montreal ration administrator says a May 1 increase from four to six ounces hinges on next year’s production. He describes overall improvement as fairly obscure. Engineers find glass vastly smoother than satin and silk.
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Canada
O. W. Rodemar
Montreal
Vancouver
Rodomar
Fire drills at home urged to save lives
The St. Thomas Times-Journal argues for home fire drills citing rising home ore deaths and shipboard safety, noting stairs ignite flames and back or side doors or a window with a veranda offer safer egress while awaiting rescue.
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St. Thomas Times-Journal
Penicillin Losing Punch Against Some Diseases
Dr. Hans Molitor of the Merck Institute warned in a report to the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology that penicillin may become almost useless for certain diseases. The issue is resistant bacterial strains spreading as susceptible ones are destroyed by the drug.
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Hans Molitor
Merck Institute For Therapeutic Research
Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology
New holoplast material chosen for ship interiors in Britain
British plastics industry reveals holoplast a durable plastic lining for ships. Used in the Empire Antigua, the first plastic lined vessel launched on the Tyne. Holoplast resists water heat changes solvents and acids, insulates doors walls and non slip floors and repels vermin. The housefly beats its wings about 120000 times per minute.
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Tyneside
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British Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene
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Viscount Wavell
India
Patties
Yugoslavia
Peter Karageorgevitch
Alexander
Tito
Loss
London Times
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Reg'lar
Aggie Riley
Gene Byrnes
United States
BY William FerGuson
Elmer
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Utah
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