Empire Scientific Conference to OpEn in London Cambridge and Oxford
Wartime lessons on international cooperation spur a postwar Empire Scientific Conference to be opened by His Majesty in London Cambridge and Oxford this summer. The British Commonwealth Scientific Office may be replaced by a new body to coordinate Empire science including medicine agriculture and nutrition with aim of boosting world food supplies and global scientific collaboration.
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Empire Scientific Conference
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Oxford
British Commonwealth Scientife Ofice
Empire
United States
London Times
British Commonwealth Scientific Office
Council of Imperial Agricultural Bureaux
Gems of thought and criticisms on praise and self
A compilation of quotes from Sam Johnson Sir Wilfred Grenfell Emerson Rochefoucault Mary Baker Eddy and Goldsmith on praise vanity self examination and inner strength. It includes a note about global arable land noting 2 percent or four billion acres cultivated and per capita figures with India Canada contrasts and a line about vanilla vines needing shade.
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Sam Johnson
Sir Wilfred Grenfell
India
Canada
Price Control And Rationing Information
Q how many cans of fruit can T with one sugar preserves coupon A one coupon covers two 20 ounce tins of fruit. If buying one can at a time the grocer may adjust with jam or other rationed preserves. Q planning two sports days on May 24 can we sell hot dogs A Friday sports day prohibits sale of meat. Q how many sugar preserves coupons are valid in April A three coupons. $5 valid April 4 and $6 and ST valid April 18. Q has butter price increased A on April 1 creamery butter up four cents per pound. dairy prices unchanged. PEG BELLE TAKES CROWN Miss Winnipeg 1946 Joan Stirling crown bearer.
Child Improves Recital With Hidden Message
A young girl, Mabel Gras, recites at a school exercise and loudly proclaims a line about feeding the cows. Her mother notes the surprise mishearing and asks her to repeat slowly, revealing the phrase about helping the poor and needy.
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Little Saver
Mabel Gras
Humorous Snippets and Farm Gaffes Across Daily Life
A collage of light exchanges and misread moments shows a young woman complimenting a horse, a wife debating business plans, and a seedy letter stirring family worries. Jokes about kissing, church attendance, and a farm novice asking where the hen sits capture the era’s humor and domestic scenes.
Advertising as a vehicle for world cooperation urged
Albert Bakovsky, Austrian-born founder of an educational research society, told a Toronto audience that if soft drinks and tobacco can be sold by advertising, education and spiritual beliefs could be marketed similarly. He urged newspapers and magazines to promote the principles of world cooperation.
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Toronto
Albert Bakovsky
Educaional Research Mociety
Grape-Nuts Flakes Ad Promises Value and Health
A rugged dialogue touts Grape-Nuts Flakes as a wholesome breakfast with carbohydrates for energy and protein for muscle. It emphasizes the blend of wheat and malted barley, baked to a golden crisp, and suggests stocking up at the trading post.
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Murgatroyd
Golden Post
Olive Tree Schools Help War Torn Greek Children Learn
UNRRA runs a program in Greece to teach war shock children to smile. Teachers work with broken branches as chalk and scarce supplies while thousands lack food and proper schooling. Despite malnutrition and damaged schools, Greeks pursue peace through improvised olive tree classrooms.
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Greece
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
UNRRA
Poland Receives Soviet Built Warships at Gdynia
Russia delivered two hundred seven ships described as splendidly equipped to the Polish navy at Gdynia under a Moscow signed agreement. The Polish government officially announced the security arrangement.
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Russia
Gdynia
Moscow
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