Improvements In Canada Airmen Clothing From War Research
Scientists and research workers modify aircrew clothing for Canada’s RAF during five years of war. Toronto Montreal Ottawa lead aviation medical research testing double pile wool interlining for warmth and compression resistance. Helmets redesigned after head measurements of 1000 air crew reduced to six sizes improving fit and communications gear. Repercussions from Malaya rubber loss influenced helmet bun insulation and noise-damping materials.
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Jean Thompson
Canada
R.C.A F
Toronto
Montreal
Ottawa
Dominion
Sqdn
J. R. Thompson
North Atlantic
Indian Ocean
Malaya
Rc.a.f
Plan to Ward Off Reparations Through Hidden Shipping Firms
The British government reports Nazis plan to keep most merchant ships after the war by forming neutral country shell companies to own German vessels. These fake firms would grant Germany a five year repurchase option, a scheme Allies vow to void upon proof and compel surrender of the ships.
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Germany
United Nations
London Daily Sketch
HAS DONE HER SHARE MISS CARRIE HUTCHINS RECORD DRESSINGS
Miss Carrie Hutchins 83 of Bangor Maine says she has made a record by sewing surgical dressings for the Red Cross. She started during the first World War and recently completed her millionth dressing for use in the current war.
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Carrie Hutchins
Bangor
Maine
Red Cross
Women Given Credit For Much Of Success In Russia
Russians credit women with major roles in the current offensive and broader war effort. Female pilots down Nazi aircraft, nurses and engineers serve, and women run blockade rescues. They comprise 45 percent of Soviet workers and 500000 in civilian defense, with 19 million on farms and many in mining, oil, merchant fleet and railways. A women only train arrived in Moscow from Omsk to mark Women’s Day.
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Red Army
Moscow
Anna Babushkina
Leningrad
Liudmila Pavlichenko
United States
Miss Onilova
Sevastopol
Russia
British soldiers to mail home voices on tiny records
A film technician developed portable recording machines about the size of a phonograph with 300000 five inch records ready for production at one cent each. Each unit includes a hand telephone to ease microphone fright and overseas centres will manage the recordings. A wounded Italian hospital patient credited his survival to a mother's voice mail. In Java bicycles remain vital transport.
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Italy
Faked Hostile Crowd Film Exposed as Nazi Propaganda
The London delegation of the French Provisional Government exposed a film showing British and American prisoners in Paris as a Nazi fabrication. The report notes Allied prisoners were led through a staged hostile crowd, then greeted by cheering workmen at the East station, revealing the sham demonstration. Ottawa also reports on Turbo Research Ltd. forming a permanent crown company to develop jet propulsion and gas turbines for aircraft, linking with UK efforts and stressing Canadian security through scientific advancement.
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France
Paris
London
Faubourg Saint-Denis
Boulevard de Strasbourg
Great Britain
United States
Quebec
C. D. Howe
Turbo Research Ltd
Crown
Research Enterprises Ltd
Toronto
Canada
Crown Company
United Kingdom
Commonwealth
Ottawa Citizen
Cup Returned After Voyage With Marine Hammond
A York services canteen returned a tea cup that had traveled halfway around the world with Marine Hammond. The note apologized for the delay and explained the cup endured a voyage and a bombardment before coming home.
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Marine Hammond
York
England
Hammond
Battlefront Souvenir from Ortona Captured by Disney
Lieut. D. M. Disney of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry recalls picking up a shrapnel torn snapshot of two Canadian tank corps soldiers beside a Canadian Pacific Railway locomotive on the Ortona battlefield last December. Disney, now in Kelowna, recounts the moment that photo, possibly taken at Moose Jaw or Regina, became a treasured memento. Disney has deep ties to the CPR, being a third generation employee with family history in Revelstoke and Calgary.
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Canadian Tank Corps
Canadian Pacific Railway
D. M. Disney
Inset
Princess Patricia's
Canadian Light Infantry
Disney
Kelowna
B.C
Lieut
C P.R
Revelstoke
Calgary
Canadian Pacific
E. S. Disney
C.P.R
Field Hill
Moose Jaw
Broadview
Regina
Conclusion Is Reached That British And American Papers Have Own Faults
The piece notes M J Loy Maloney's view that Britain’s ruling class controls the press and compares it to American practices. It argues both nations’ press are shaped by wealthy owners, with anglophobia noted in Chicago and Roosevelt opposition by major papers. The essay cautions against overreaching accusations.
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San Francisco
Italy
London Press
Maloney
London
Great Britain
Mr. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
America
New York Tribune
Horace Greeley
The Lady and the Doctor Over Fees and Gifts
A frail old woman praised a prominent doctor for cure then offered a hand embroidered purse as payment. The doctor refused gratitude as payment, stating fees must be money. She offered two hundred dollars in hundreds, keeping three notes and giving two to him before departing.
Penicillin to Prisoners Aid for Normandy Wounded
Penicillin is flown to German prison camps to treat wounded British soldiers from Normandy and other fronts. An eminent doctor warns that crossing the legs may cause a temporary paralysis lasting months.
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Normandy
Germans Captured in France Show Low Morale and Confusion
Report from the front notes hundreds of German prisoners in Canadian advances in France with little fighting spirit. Russians and Polish conscripts lack hot meals and even cold rations. Prisoners accuse officers of betrayal while waiting to go home with many expecting an early end to the war.
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France
Berchtesgaden
British wartime savings surpass previous totals by far
The National Savings Committee reports that British small investors saved 12 billion dollars by end of July. The gain comes from Savings Certificates Defence Bonds and higher Post Office and Trustee Savings Bank deposits. Growth spans 15 months for a third, 22 months for the first third, and 18 months for the second.
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Britain
National Savings Committee
Defence
Post Office
Trustee Savings
Towels Mexicana Pattern 7159 Offers Cross Stitch Motifs
Pattern 7159 features seven motifs averaging 6 by 7 inches for South of the Border tea towels. Send twenty cents in coins to the Household Arts Department, Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Avenue E., Winnipeg, Man. Include name, address, and pattern number and expect mail delays. Sweet corn stays fresh up to one year when frozen within four hours of picking.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
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