Diamonds transfer reshapes wartime Britain DutchBritain diamond alliance
A Birmingham led effort moved Holland's diamond industry to Britain as German forces approached the Low Countries. UK Dutch cooperation now controls rough stones, files, and skilled workers, with ten factories planned to turn out both decorative and industrial diamonds valued at about £2,000,000 annually.
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Will Seek New Homes Bata ad praises Canada and freedom
The Bata Shoe Company of Canada thanks the country for the opportunity to operate with 700 employees after relocating from Czecho Slovakia. It pledges loyalty to Canada and notes a broader world trend of industrial redistribution due to European conflict. The Ottawa Journal compares this migration to the Huguenot exodus that boosted Britain’s industry.
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Man's span and scope on Earth praised by museum scholars
The American Museum of Natural History notes that about 9 percent of all humans born since the dawn of humanity, roughly ninety billion, live in a world where two billion are alive today. It highlights mankind's civilizations, art, communication, and both achievements and wreckage across millennia.
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Vale of Tears
Clark Gable
France
Minneapolis Star- Journal
Paris
The Seal Of Secrecy: A Newspaper Man’s Vow
Mary Roberts Rinehart quotes a newspaper man’s loyalty to secrets and headlines. The passage praises discretion and the discipline of keeping confidences, ending with a quip about front page power. The note on iguanas introduces a tangent about iguana vegetables.
Why Maple Leaves Turn Color in Autumn
Forestry researchers dispute frost as the cause of autumn leaf colors in maples. They explain warm days and cool nights raise leaf sugar, which, with tannic acid, forms red anthocyanins, while fading green pigments reveal yellow hues as leaves age, unless frost prematurely kills the foliage.
Bank to issue special Christmas era notes in England
The Bank of England plans Christmas season banknotes in five shillings half crown and two shillings values to ease the public and balance notes and coin. The smallest current note is ten shillings. The Daily Herald editor says the move avoids inflation and aids currency balance. A UC agricultureist spends six months in Australia researching sheep to improve California wool quality.
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Australia
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Churchills underground shelter plan sparks cheerful grit
London dispatch reports Premier Churchill urging extensive underground housing in bombed areas with sleeping bunks for all. Britons welcome the idea, citing sociability and confidence in wartime bluntness as they anticipate postattack rebuilding rather than panic.
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German WWI relics kept safe in Imperial War Museum vaults
Underground storage preserves a torpedo a mine and bomb fragments from London raids of 1914–18. Dismantled German aircraft Taube Fokker and Gotha lie in packing cases under sandbags. Separate notes cover French unemployment relief figures and India's animal population estimates.
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Resources Of Science To Be An Important Factor In Conflict Of Strategy
Expert Dr Bates links Indian Summer lore to farming and harvest timing in fall weather. Dean Mackenzie asserts democracies can mobilize science as effectively as dictatorships, stressing the role of the National Research Council and Canadian defense departments in war research and engineering.
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Western fighting zone on coast battler units readied
Alberta and British Columbia form a Pacific command area with coast patrols by Canada’s navy and air force. Army units guard key points and defend against invasions while artillery batteries and infantry man the front. Royal Canadian Artillery positions dot headlands as plans anticipate raids or landings. English walnut shells provide dust for insecticides.
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