Canada could hold 50 million people by end of century
Montreal researchers say most of Canada’s 3.5 million square miles are empty and could host up to 50 million. Prof. Gilbert Taylor cites Mackenzie Slave Peace river and St. Lawrence fringe as growth zones, notes past migration toward Peace River, and warns Arctic lands lie on air routes to Asia.
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Montreal
Canada
Gilbert Taylor
University of Toronto
Montreal Geographical Association
Faculty Club
Taylor
Mackenzie-Slave-Peace River
St. Lawrence
George H. T. Kimble
McGill
Peace River
Mackenzie Triangle
Siberia
Arctic
Pittsburgh
Asia
Where the Trouble Lies
Malcolm W. Bingay argues in the Detroit Free Press that society blames the last war for current ills, focuses on fleeting trends and madness in culture, and ignores deeper, generational causes behind public thinking.
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Malcolm W. Bingay
Detroit Free Press
Churchill Receives Native Walking Stick in Brief Gift
Allied authorities report Churchill received a native walking stick from K M Good American, while borders open in southern Germany to German business. The Japanese Imperial household staff is reduced to about four thousand in the first year of occupation.
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Winston Churchill
K. M. Good
Germany
Allied Headquarters
Eggs in plastic jackets delivered to the King
Two dozen eggs in plastic jackets have been shipped to Balmoral Castle for the King and Queen. Constance Liddicoat, 22, flew from America on a free trip arranged by an American plastics firm to deliver the eggs. She said the eggs will keep nine months, are unbreakable, and require peeling off the plastic covering.
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Balmoral Castle
America
Constance Liddicoat
Britain
Liddicoat
Balmoral
London Daily Mail
Whale Meat Sandwich Spread Aids German Rations
In Hamburg and Schleswig Holstein four factories mix 1500 tons of whale meat with protein plants to create a spread for German rations in the British occupation zone. The blend reportedly has no oily or fishy taste.
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Hamburg
Germany
Schleswig-Holstein
Crossword Puzzle Clues Mixed With Wordplay and Ligatures
A reader supplied crossword grid lists across and down clues with numbers and partial phrases. Several entries reference animals plants and objects across themes including music where words appear tangled with misprints and OCR errors.
Education ministry launches fuel efficiency training for staff
Britain faces a fuel shortage and the Ministry of Education announces courses for stokers and boiler attendants to gain professional qualifications with framed examinations and syllabuses. The article notes that Robinson Crusoe was inspired by Alexander Selkirk's four year stay on a Chilean island.
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Britain
Ministry of Education
Robinson Crusoe
Alexander Selkirk
Chile
Nutrition expert urges child training to improve Canadian diets
Dr E W McHenry of the University of Toronto says Canada has sufficient food to meet health needs but many Canadians mishandle and ignore it. He cites ignorance and indifference as main causes of malnutrition and urges school-based healthful living education to form lasting habits. He notes goitre remains the only frequent adult deficiency, with rickets and scurvy seen in babies. He endorses iodized salt for iodine.
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Canada
E W. McHenry
University of Toronto
The
Health League of Canada
Dr. McHenry
University
School of Hygiene
McHenry
Mail Coaches In England Opened Long Ago
Mail coaches began in England over 150 years ago. They moved at eight and a half miles per hour, making the London to Edinburgh journey take 18 days.
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England
London
Edinburgh
Attlee declines official war name preferring Second World War
In London Premier Clement Attlee told the House of Commons Britain will not adopt an official title for the 1939 to 1945 conflict. He predicted the term Second World War will be generally used and quips about a third world war with a Punic reference.
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London
Britain
Clement Attlee
House of Commons
M.P
Thomas Cecil Skeffington-Lodge
Attlee
Medical Officers Confirm Shell Shock Exists
Washington reports army medical officers acknowledge shell shock as a real, though rare, condition after studying 84 cases. The Medical Corps Bulletin states it is a syndrome caused entirely by blast impact on brain tissues.
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Washington
Army
The
Medical Corps Bulletin
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