Canada poised to lead direct air routes to Europe and Asia
Fortune cites an article on Canada’s postwar air policy noting Canada’s geography and ground facilities position it to host direct routes to Europe and Asia. It highlights two new staging routes, potential long-range aircraft, and Trans-Canada Airlines aims to control key transatlantic and transpacific corridors with access to Bermuda and Nassau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Europe
Asia
Fortune
North America
Northwest
Frontier
Alaska
Britain
U.S
Bri
Hawaii
Pacific
Women to serve on anti aircraft gun crews in war effort
The Windsor Star reports that training is under way for Canadian Women's Army Corps plotter-telephonists and that gender roles in military service may shift to allow women to join anti aircraft crews. British women already serve in such roles, and Canadian volunteers are expected for this dangerous and exciting work.
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Canadian Women’s Army Corps
Windsor Star
Seed potatoes puzzle from a Kansas City grocer
A young housewife asked for seed potatoes and returned an hour later with a platter of sliced potatoes. She complained that none contained seed, noting she had cut all of them open to find none.
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Kansas City
Unified written Chinese ties diverse dialects together
The article notes that despite numerous spoken dialects across China, the written language remains uniform nationwide, enabling mutual understanding in official, educational, and literary contexts. It highlights the role of standard Chinese characters and governance in preserving a cohesive written form.
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China
Reputation of Canadian fighter pilots in Malta praised
The article lauds Canadian aviators based in Malta during World War II, noting pilots from the RCAF and regional backgrounds. It highlights Sgt Pilot George Albert Hardy of Davidson Saskatchewan and Cyril Gosling of North Battleford, alongside Sqdn Ldr John Lynch and others, praising their skill, resilience, and contributions on missions over Sicily and Dieppe.
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Malta
George Beurling
Vedrun
Canada
Verdun
RCAF
Sqdn
Malcolm MacLeod
Pictou
N.S
RAF
Saskatchewan Power Commission
North Battleford
Gosling
Dieppe
Sicily
Syracuse
Sicilian
West
George Albert Hardy
Davidson, Sask
Britain
Hardy
Animal By-Products Aid Music Industry In North America
The article notes wartime shifts in instrument string production from Germany and Italy to North America due to advances in processing animal by products. It details uses from sheep and pig by products including intestines for violin strings and sausages, bristles for brushes, pepsin from stomach pyloric portions, glands for medicine, and pig skin for gelatin.
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Canada
United States
Germany
Italy
North America
Health of Animals Division
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Dinner ties W L Clark story on Lord Shaughnessy and Burns
Windsor Star recounts a Vancouver dinner where Lord Shaughnessy of Canadian Pacific joked about the dinner menu saying lamb was actually mutton. Pat Burns was later invited to speak as the evening's events highlighted the rail baron’s quip.
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W. L. Clark
Windsor Star
Lord Shaughnessy
Pat Burns
Vancouver
Canadian Pacific
Calgary
Crops Tested on Alaska Highway Route Projects
Russian dandelions for rubber and Siberian clover join alfalfa from Tibet as crops tested at Dawson Creek on the new Alaska Highway route. In wood aircraft tests, the Australian Council of Scientific Research reports 250000 mechanical trials.
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Dawson Creek
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Siberia
Tibet
Australian Council of Scientific Research
Interlude ends softball clash with RAF Boston squadron target briefing
In North Africa a 14 all softball game pauses as Wing Cmdr J R Thompson leads a briefing at his mobile HQ. The unit, famed for shuttle bombing, returns to play while intelligence officers question the crews and demand new targets. The scene blends combat haste with sport as the team resumes play.
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R.A.F. Boston
North Africa
J. R. Thompson
D.F.C
Listowel
Ont
Boston
R.A.F
Britain and Empire Aid to Russia Surpasses Fifty Million
Official figures from the United Kingdom Commercial Corporation show immense help to Russia. Military supplies placed through the corporation exceed £50,000,000 in value and total hundreds of thousands of tons across various goods.
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Britain
Russia
United Kingdom Commercial Corporation
Germany
Ceylon
Cornwall
Moscow
Sterling
Australia
New Zealand
Syria
Iraq
Persia
Canada
Palestine
Turkey
East
Africa
India
Salvaged Scraps Now Help Fruit Motifs For Towels
Pattern 7458 offers six fruit applique motifs from scraps for towels. Send 20 cents to Winnipeg pattern office. expect mail delays. The article then shifts to wartime aid, detailing the UK C C C supplying Russia through empire resources and routes via India Iran and Persia to Istanbul and Moscow, including tin rubber and foodstuffs.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newpaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Paris Keeps Few Taxis as Petrol Cars Are Restricted
Only 16 petrol consuming taxis remain in Paris restricted to doctor urgent duty or patient transport. Patients pay 100 francs per hour for 12 miles and doctors 60 francs per hour for nine miles. Parisians rely on pedal t subs as the alternative transport. North side of a room is the honor side among the Chinese with the host facing south.
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Paris
Medal for Mountie Veteran in Northwest Passage Voyage
Constable W. J. Parry received the Polar Medal from the Earl of Athlone at Government House Victoria. The 20 year RCMP veteran commanded the motorship St. Roche, which left Vancouver in June 1940 with Arctic supplies, was frozen near the north magnetic pole for 11 months, then became the first vessel to traverse the northwest passage from west to east, reaching Halifax in October 1942.
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St. Roche
Government House
Victoria
Earl of Athlone
W. J. Parry
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Vancouver
Arctic
R.C.M.P
Palsey Pay
North Magnetic Pole
Northwest Passage
Halifax
Nervy Soldier Bravely Delivers Cigs While Surrounded
A private in a battalion of the British First Army moved through heavy fire carrying a tray of grenades and shouted cigarettes and chocolates to his comrades in slit trenches, risking his life to boost morale amid encirclement.
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First Army
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British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Trans-Canada Airlines
TCA
North Atlantic
Yukon
Orient
Bermuda
Nassau
Senator Pat Burns
Empire
Karachi
Ussr
Nokkundi
Zahidan
Uk.c.c
Persian Gulf
Caspian Sea
Vladivostok
Alice Brooks
Kathleen O. Walker
Ottawa
Royal Canadian Air Force
Nancy McArthur
Frances A. Service
Toronto
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