Immensity Of War Effort Of Canadian Farmers Narrated
Lord De La Warr recounts his London speech praising Canadian farmers for a 45 percent production increase despite a 400000-man loss. He notes prairie land challenges, soil conservation, and shifts to communal grazing. He urges British leadership in world food policy and stable markets to avoid prewar economic chaos.
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Lord de le Warr
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Vancouver
Livestock Association
Aberdeen Angus
Guernsey
Great Britain
Canadian Federation of Agriculture
Quebec
FBI
Labour Party
Commonwealth
RCAF Navigator Elliott Awarded U S Army Air Medal
The U S Air Force headquarters announced that Flt Lt Elden B Elliott of Sutherland Sask RC A F navigator awarded the United States Army Air Medal for a special hazardous mission into enemy territory He was reported missing shortly after the mission details were withheld for security The medal marks the ninth such award to an RCAF member by the U S President and implies American forces involvement
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Air Force Headquarters
Elden .B. Elliott
Sutherland, Sask
Elliott
RCAF
U.S
Smuts Defends Commonwealth Ties at Cape Town
Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts voiced strong support for the British Commonwealth of Nations. He told a South African parliamentary committee he opposed both extremes and rejected calls for loosening ties, saying republic status would not grant more liberty or authority.
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Jan Christian Smuts
South Africa
Cape Town
British Commonwealth of Nations
Memorial planned in Westminster Abbey for Battle of Britain airmen
The Chapel of Henry VII at Westminster Abbey will house an illuminated roll of honor for British airmen who died in the Battle of Britain. Funds exceeding 4000 pounds have been raised for a memorial in a chapel within a chapel, honoring the few whose sacrifice helped turn the war.
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Britain
Henry VII
Westminster
Churchill
Lord Trenchard
R.A F
Lord Dowding
Buckingham Palace
Tewkesbury
Virgin Mary
Henry VI
Henry VIII
Henry
Windsor
Oliver Cromwell
Robert Blake
Pietro Torrigiani
Robert Harley
George II
Orders of the Bath
George V
Sten Gun Factory Origins in Britain and Canada
The Ottawa Citizen notes the Sten gun story begins in Britain's small workshops and sheds aided by workers and families, with the name deriving from Shepherd and Turpin and England. It adds that Canada hosted the Empire's largest Sten gun factory, produced in tens of thousands during perilous times.
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Empire
Canada
Britain
Shepherd
Turpin
England
Ottawa Citizen
London Air Defenses Rally With Heaviest Anti Aircraft Fire
The present air attacks on London are met with the heaviest and most concentrated anti aircraft barrage of the war. Guns are far faster and more accurate than in the Blitz of 1940 41.
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London
Not Good Salesman Late Irvin Cobb Once Tried Canvassing
Irvin Cobb in youth tried life insurance solicitation hitting a Kentucky farmer’s estate near Paducah. After meals and chores Cobb pressed the topic but the farmer declined, leaving Cobb to abandon life insurance dreams and pursue reporting and magazine writing.
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Irvin Cobb
Cobb
Paducah
Kentucky
Irv
Fort William
Pattern 7726 Embroidery Transfer For Apron Gift
A 1940 note on needlework offers Pattern 7726 with embroidery transfer pieces and directions for a practical apron. Send twenty cents in coins to the Household Arts Department of the Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 McDermot Avenue E Winnipeg Man. Expect possible postal delays due to mail slowness. In 1940 British troops overran Italian East Africa despite being outnumbered ten to one.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Italian East Africa
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