Class Distinction In Britain Dying Out Says Labor Minister
Labor Minister Ernest Bevin told visiting Canadian newspapermen that class segregation is ending and postwar planning should serve the nation as a whole. He cited rising efficiency, fewer absenteeism, and growing female participation, noting wage and output gains, while Sunday work drops due to higher output. Lord Woolton praised rationing stabilizing health and diet, with Canada boosting food imports by 40 percent.
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Britain
Labor
Ernest Bevin
Mr Bevin
Lord Woolton
Herbert Morrison
National Fire Service
Andrew Duncan
Canada
Royal Commission On Maritime Claims
Bevin
Halifax outlines Britain's aims beyond self preservation
Lord Halifax, British ambassador to the United States, urged listeners to support wartime goals beyond defending Britain. He spoke of building more arms and maintaining faith, viewing the war as liberation and a path to a more Christian future, with a pledge to never again lose the moral values won in battle.
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Viscount Halifax
United States
Great Britain
Lord Halifax
Europe
Hitler
Detailed Directions For Slip Covers Pattern 7397
Step by step directions explain making slip covers for chairs and sofas. Send twenty cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union to obtain this pattern, include name address and pattern number.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
St Pauls small organ repaired and recommissioned
The London Times reports St Pauls small organ has been repaired and put back into service in the nave. Built by Henry Willis in 1881, it was last used during cathedral restoration and now, with eight stops, delivers tone that can rival the large organ in certain cathedral sections.
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St. Paul's
London Times
Henry Willis
Water Is Bulky Says U S Shipments to Britain
A statistician estimates the United States shipped about 200000 tons of water in foodstuffs to Britain last year under Lease Lend. Dehydration advances cut bulk, saving cargo space while retaining flavor and nutrition. Dried meat and eggs already show success and regular shipments to Britain continue.
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United States
Atlantic
Britain
United Kingdom
Flow Of Labor Lists Dictate Future Canadian Manpower
Selective service officers in major industrial centers reveal labor priority lists guiding the flow of available manpower in Canada. The lists, kept in flux, determine actions to curtail least essential industries via the wartime board. Two lists name firms and occupations, with four priority groups from very essential to non essential and an automatic link between firms and worker types.
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Canada
Prices and Trade Board
Compelled To Work Chemical Value In Trees
A reprinted CBS New York broadcast describes Nazi views on wounded veterans used as labor and compares wartime German industry to future wood derived chemicals. It argues postwar chemistry will increasingly rely on trees as renewable raw material for fuels and products.
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CBS
New York
Africa
Canada Lumberman
Armorer Tells How Canadian Bombers Prepare For Raid
George Rennie of Powell River BC and fellow armorers load guns and bombs for RCAF Wellington bombers. He compares bomb loading to playing piano selecting 500 and 4000 pound bombs and incendiaries for raids on Saarbruecken. Crew detail and drill described.
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RCAF
Germany
George Rennie
Powell River
B.C
Rennie
Canada
R.C.A.F. Fiy
Britain
Midlands
Kenneth van Geun
Montreal
Lac
Ernie Liggins
Winnipeg
George Plumb
London
Laarbruecken
George
Saarbruecken
British Schoolmasters call to abolish old school ties
The National Association of Schoolmasters in Britain with 25 000 members urged abolishing elite schools like Eton and Harrow after the war to ensure equal opportunity. They want primary and secondary schools removed from church control and a national service requirement for all youths to prepare them for citizenship.
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National Association of Schoolmasters
Britain
Eton
Harrow
Board of Education
Schoolmasters Association
National Trades’ Union Congress
Schoo
The
Association
Maldon Tomb Records Colossal Size of Edward Bright
London Times notes a Maldon parish tomb for Edward Bright who died in 1750 aged 29. He weighed 44 stones and measured vast chest and waist circumferences. A wager at the Black Bull Maldon saw five to seven men buttoned inside his waistcoat without breaking a stitch. The waistcoat is kept.
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I. L. Seymour
London Times
All Saints’ Church
Malden
Edward Bright
Black Bull
Maldon
Insulting Language Case Noted in Army Drilled Incident
An enlisted man faced an orderly officer for insulting language to his sergeant after replying to a question. He claimed he was answering, but the sergeant pressed for the exact inquiry and the man’s comment was read as disrespectful.
Archbishop of Canterbury a teetotaller recalls water
A former Queen's College fellow recalls Dr Temple as a teetotaller who popularized water drinking at Bump Suppers. The memory notes that Billy's glass of water was carried into the hall amid cheers.
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Canterbury
Queen's College
Oxford
Dr. Temple
Billy
Wrights Flight Mystery Revealed On A Broomstick
A reporter asked Wilbur Wright how high Orville was flying. He used a broomhandle with notches and a beard piece to measure, then judged the altitude as about 450 feet in a playful demonstration.
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Wright Brothers
Wilbur Wright
Orville
Wilbur
Nylon for parachutes and nylon use facts
The article notes that a single army parachute shroud contains nylon equivalent to about three dozen stockings or more than a year’s supply for an average woman. It also mentions petroleum alcohol being discovered during World War I.
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Alice Brooks
Canadian Army Casualtie
U.S
Tain
Halifax Herald
Mary
Brandon Sun
R.c.af
Bers
Drake
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British Empire
Wright 93 Brothers
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