RCAF Transport Expands Size and Role in Postwar Swift
Ottawa reports the RCAF transport service growing in size and importance. Under Group Captain Z. Lewis Leigh the program covers routes from Whitehorse to Cairo with pilots and crews moving into peacetime civilian air routes. Wing Commanders Kennedy and Middleton oversee passenger and cargo transport plus training at Moncton, as Symington notes possible conversion of 75 pilots and 150 aircrew to commercial routes.
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Ottawa
Rcaf Transport Service
Whitehorse
Yukon Territory
Queen Charlotte Islands
Cairo
Z. Lewis Leigh
Lethbridge
Alta
Marlowe Kennedy
Winnipeg
Halifax
Moncton
Gander
Nfd
Goose Airport
Labrador
Canada
Middleton
Hall
Rc.a.f
Kennedy
Leigh
Transport Service
Berlin
Frankfurt
H. J. Symington
Trans-Canada Airlines
House of Commons
RCAF
Mail for Troops Ottawa Cuts Transit Time
The Post Office Department announced three days were shaved from surface mail delivery from Canada to troops in the Mediterranean. Postmaster General Mulock told the House of Commons on February 28 that letters to Canadians on the Italian front took 59 days, but the average now runs 56 days with hopes for further reduction.
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Ottawa
Post Office Department
Canada
Mediterranean
Mulock
House of Commons
Airborne mine threat sinks enemy shipping worldwide
The Air Ministry reports British planes have sunk about 100,000 tons of enemy shipping since spring 1940. Mines laid along the coast from Bis cay to the Gulf of Danzig disrupt coal and iron ore trade between Germany and Sweden and hinder raw material imports from Norway, Sweden and Spain. The mine is a 1500 pound cylinder dropped by parachute with magnetic or acoustical firing mechanisms.
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London
Bay of Biscay
Gulf of Danzig
Air Ministry
Norway
Sweden
Spain
Germany
Daylight Saving Likely To Stay Through War, Ottawa Says
Munitions department officials in Ottawa state there is little chance of changing daylight saving time for the war duration. They note Ontario educators urged a return to standard time, but a government spokesman says hydro and fuel savings plus urban support outweigh rural drawbacks.
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Ottawa
Munitions Department
Ontario Educational Association
Toronto
Big Egg Contract Between Board and British Ministry
A 1944 45 contract between the Special Products Board and the British ministry of food requires shipments of at least 7,500 long tons of dried egg powder annually for 1944 and 1945. The ministry may opt to take up to 18,000 000 dozen shell eggs in 1945. The minimum dried egg powder equals 45,000,000 dozen shell eggs. prewar exports were about 1,000,000 dozen annually. Dried egg shipments in 1943 matched 34,000,000 dozen shell eggs.
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Ottawa
Special Products Board
Ministry of Food
Britain
British War Brides Learn Salad Craft in Toronto Class
British war brides gather in Toronto Ontario for a weekly cooking class to share tips on salad making as a taste of their Canadian husbands. Mrs Bill Freeman from Stratford and Mrs Robert Peace now back for aircrew training in Windsor attend the session.
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Toronto
Ont
Bill Freeman
Stratford
Robert R. Peace
Windsor
Grain Movement Ottawa Sets Target to Move Grain by Lakehead
Federal Trade Minister James A. MacKinnon announced a Winnipeg emergency grain transport meeting to maximize shipments to the head of the lakes before July 31. The plan projects loading over 1,300 cars daily on the prairies and unloading about 35 cars daily at Lake head elevators, with 2,300,000 bushels moved as lake navigation opens and a large fleet en route. Stocks at the lakehead are expected to move quickly.
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Ottawa
Federal Trade
James A. MacKinnon
Emergency Grain Transportation Committee
Winnipeg
Prairies
United Kingdom
United States
Lakehead
Canada pork stocks reach record April storage high
Dominion bureau reports April 1 pork in storage at 104,246,631 pounds, up from March and far above April 1 1943. Lard totals 19,281,284 pounds. beef 35,107,245 pounds. veal 2,855,939 pounds. mutton and lamb 6,675,003 pounds. Most pork destined for overseas.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Dominion
Farm Work Release Sought For Canadian Defence Army
The Alberta federation of agriculture calls for release of men from the Canadian defence army in the Pacific area for farm work. The federation will ask the national defence minister and seek a higher 1944 ammo quota for civilian use to protect farm animals and poultry.
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Canadian Defence Army
Pacific
Calgary
Board of
Alberta Federation of Agriculture
Federation
Minister of National Defence
Prices and Trade Board
Canadians Need Not Worry Over Debt Increase
Canadian debt increases during the war do not threaten the economy, says Graham Towers governor of the Bank of Canada and national war finance chair. He cites rising national income, lower real debt burden, and favorable debt costs while stressing continued high employment and income postwar to sustain growth.
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Toronto
Graham Towers
Bank of Canada
Mr. Towers
National War Finance Committee
Dominion
Canadian National Railways
Foreign Exchange Control Board
Towers
Marketing fish across prairie provinces discussed in Ottawa
Representatives from Saskatchewan Alberta Manitoba and Manitoba met federal fisheries officials in Ottawa to study postwar market expansion for prairie province fish. Attendees included Hon. W. F. Kerr Saskatchewan natural resources minister A. J. Whitmore federal western fisheries director and provincial fisheries advisers.
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Ottawa
Britain warns women to stock two weeks of food
London reports that when the second front opens the home front will feel the effects. Women are urged to prepare two weeks of emergency food to prevent shortages if communications are disrupted.
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London
Britain
Urmston Council Bans Sunday Softball for U.S. Soldiers
Urmston town council refused permission for American soldiers to use the public park on Sundays saying it would spot the English Sunday. The decision blocks Sunday softball games in the town park in Lancashire, England.
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Urmston
Lancashire
Eng
Urmston Town
Brazilians join Allied air effort over Anzio coast
An Algiers radio report says Brazilian airmen officially assist the Allied Mediterranean air force over the Anzio beachhead in Italy.
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London
Algiers
Mediterranean Air Force
Anzio
Italy
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