Canada to Subsidize 1950 Bacon Shipments
Canada plans a roughly 1.5 million dollar subsidy on 57 million pounds of bacon shipped to the United Kingdom under a forthcoming Anglo Canadian contract. The UK will pay about 30 cents a pound, six cents less than 1949, with the deal possibly expanding from Gardiner’s floor price.
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UAWA
Canada
United Kingdom
London
Ottawa
Gardiner
U.K
federal treasury
U S Holiday Toll At 580 Across Nation
At least 580 people died in U S holiday accidents during Christmas. An Associated Press tally shows 413 deaths in traffic, 66 in fires, and 101 in other mishaps over the 78 hour period from 6 pm Friday to midnight Monday. In Canada, 45 died in accidents over the same weekend, with 18 traffic, 8 fires, and 19 other deaths.
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CHICAGO
United States
Associated Press
CANADA
The Left Hand Corner and a Cockney Orphan Tale
A London born librarian background figures in The Left Hand Corner with anecdotes about His British nationals. Arthur Ford cites a London Free Press story of a Cockney orphan girl sent to Canada under an emigration scheme who struggles with the h sounds during a spelling class.
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iater
Borden
Arthur Ford
London Free Press
Canada
Solomon
Hess
MARTIN BURRELL
It is a girl for Princess Aly Khan and Rita Heyworth
Princess Aly Khan and Rita Heyworth welcomed a baby girl in a Swiss hospital. The newborn princess, named Yasmin, marks a high profile addition to the global social scene.
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ALY KHAN
Rita Heyworth
Switzerland
Yasmin
Russians To Release Jacobson At Vienna Border
Soviet authorities agreed to release Israel G. Jacobson, American Jewish relief official, to U S officials after he was held near the Austro-Hungarian border. Brig Gen James Fry to arrange the transfer with Col Gen Alexei Zhekov, choosing a site in the Russian occupation zone for the release. Jacobson, 37, was held 12 days after being expelled from Hungary as a suspected spy.
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VIENNA
Israel
G. Jacobson
United States
Jacobson
Hungary
James Fry
U.S
Alexei Zhekov
itory- of -the-Americian
COLEMAN
PINCHER
The Herald
Greyhound
NEW YORK
ANTHONY ADVERSE
MIAMI
Fla
Hervey Allen
Frank Stewart
BONNERS FERRY
Idaho
Bon Ners Ferry
KELOWNA
WOHST SMOWDSTORKM
B.C
Okanagan Valley
Israel G. Jacobson
charfes
McNAUGHTON
KASHMIR
LAKE SUCCESS
N.Y
A. G. L. McNaughton
Canada
United Nations security council
EDMONTON
CPI
town plannifg commission
W. T. Aitken
James J. T. Collisson
Rita Hayworth's baby princess Yasmin is born in Zurich
Rita Hayworth and Moslem Prince Aly Khan welcome their daughter Yasmin born at 9 45 am after a dawn dash to Montchoist clinic. The baby weighs about five and a quarter pounds and is the granddaughter of Aga Khan. Aly Khan describes the delivery as natural with gas.
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Associated Press
AUSANNE
Switzerland
Rita Hayworth
Aly Khan
Rita
YASMIN
France
Prince Aly
Aly
Borneo
Fungi In Cancer Report Stuns American Science
New York December 28 Discoveries announced to the American Association for the Advancement of Science reveal cancer fungi identical to common soil and food fungi found in twenty human cancers and one hundred mouse cancers with one exception they appear only in diseased tissue. Dr Irene Corey Diller of the Institute for Cancer Research presented enlarged images of fungi including Altenaria and syncephalastrum racemosum noting how tropical forms reached Philadelphia cancers remains a mystery. Cautions that fungi may not yet prove cancer causation and more work is required, even as a tropical fungus from cancers killed susceptible mice in days when injected.
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NEW YORK
American Association for the advancement of science
Irene Corey Diller
Institute for Cancer Research
Philadelphia
American Cancer Society
Diller
tropics
New Tax Rulings Move Encourage Building Of Plants
Ottawa dispatch reports Canada’s new tax rulings aim to spur plant construction by letting depreciation rise without income tax on the invested capital. Regulations set fixed depreciation rates by industry, removing ministerial discretion and recognizing obsolescence losses. Shareholders are affected as the changes allow significant tax relief on building costs and obsolescence claims.
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OTTAWA
Canada Gazette
W. W. T. Scully
national revenue
Scully
Gable Honeymoon Welcome by 10000 in Honolulu
Honolulu crowd of about 10000 greeted Clark Gables and Sylvia Hawkes Ashley Fairbanks as they arrived on the lower Lurline. The actor's recent marriage to the former widow of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. was noted as Hollywood’s surprise romance.
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HONOLULU
A.P
Clark Gables
Lurline
Gable
Sylvia Hawkes
Ashley Fairbanks
Clark Gable
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr
Hollywood
CNR Cuts Trains As Coal Shortage Hits Canada
Canadian National Railways announced a drastic 125 percent cut in steam passenger service effective January 9 due to serious depletion of coal reserves from work stoppages and reduced mining hours in the United States. CNR officials warned the stockpile may last only about 30 days, a critically dangerous margin for the railway.
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MONTREAL
C.P
Canadian National Railways today
United States
C.P.R
N. R. Crump
Canadian Pacific Railway
N. B. Walton
C.N.R
Canada
Walton
Time names Churchill man of the half century
Time editors designate Winston Churchill as the man of the half century on the January 2 Time cover, noting his leadership across two world wars and his role in guiding a free world through peril. The 16 page supplement traces his career from 1900 through 1950, highlighting wartime contributions, Tank development, and postwar leadership at age 65.
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Ernest Hainiin Baker
Time
Churchill
Dream Of Amps Comes True
In Toronto on December 28 194? a tag day raised 42500 for The Amputations Association of the Great War later renamed The War Amputations of Canada. The group grew from WWI veterans to a wartime memorial fund and moved from a dingy midtown club to a new $480000 building commemorating the fallen of both wars.
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TORONTO
France
Amputations Association
amps
Canada
veterans’ club
Toronto amps
Six CPR Trains Stranded Near Revelstoke
Six Canadian Pacific trains were stranded near Revelstoke as a severe blizzard crippled British Columbia’s central interior. Communications to the prairies and eastern Canada were cut all night, with telegraph and telephone lines down and major rail routes blocked by snowdrifts and snowslides. Some lines were restored by today but most services remained disrupted.
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ANCOUVER
British Columbia
Ol’ Man
north Pacific
R.O
prairies
Canada
Extreme Cold Grips Alberta and Snow Bursts Across Province
Northern Alberta sees record lows with Grouard at 55 below, Edmonton 33 below, Grande Prairie 44 below, and Medicine Hat logging 6.3 inches of snow in 24 hours. Snow totals for the month reach 14.1 inches at Medicine Hat while official records show 9.14 inches. Farther west near Lethbridge Cowley reports 1.12 inches of snowfall in the last day.
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Alberta
mercury
Edmonton
Grande Prairie
High Prairie
Grouard
B.C
Medicine Hat
Lethbridge
Cowley
Another Storm Heads Toward Coast After Weather Mixup
Weather forecasters warn of a heavy storm system developing off the British Columbia coast about 409 miles away. The misforecast chatter suggested winter’s pattern shifting, with meteorologists tracking its path and potential impact on coastal areas.
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B.C
Ontario Farmers Face Major Losses in 1950 Says Kennedy
Ontario Agriculture Minister Kennedy warned of a projected 100000000 loss to farmers in 1950 due to falling prices and rising costs. He predicted fewer chickens hogs and eggs, with smaller tomato and canning crops. He cited egg costs at 41 cents a dozen to produce while farmers received about 25 cents in some areas.
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TORONTO
Ontario
Kennedy
Bigger Than Queen Elizabeth Liner Planned By Cunard
London dispatch reports Cunard White Star plans a new express liner larger than the Queen Elizabeth for trans Atlantic service. The Daily Graphic says the vessel may cost at least 15 million pounds and approach 90 000 tons, exceeding the Queen Elizabeth’s 83 673 tonnage.
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LONDON
Reuters
Cunard-White Star Shipping Company
Daily Graphic
Britain in danger position warns Trades Union Congress
The Trades Union Congress, representing eight million workers, says Britain faces its most dangerous economic position since controls. It backs government wage restraint, calls for further economies and trimmed profits, warns deflation would bring mass unemployment and lower living standards. A conference of affiliated unions meets January 12 to consider the report.
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LONTDON
C.P
Trades Union Congress
Britain
T.U.C
general council
Syrian premier forms new 10 member cabinet
Damascus Syria December 28 Premier Khaled Bey Azem announced a new 10 member Syrian cabinet with himself retaining the foreign affairs portfolio. The move follows the March coup that toppled his government and a new army coup on December 19 restoring him as premier.
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DAMASCUS
Syria
Khaled Bey Azem
Khaled Bey
Snowplows clear No 3 highway from Coleman to Pincher
Provincial officials said snowplows opened No 3 highway between Coleman and Pincher but the route west of Coleman remains blocked. Greyhound buses and plows turned back as the snowbound section proved impassable.
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