Air service in India marks vital wartime airlift system
Canadian airmen in India help run a large, efficient aerial transport network linked to six countries across two continents. The RAF Group operates a near 1,000,000 mile monthly schedule to India, Burma, Ceylon, China and Australia with a stellar safety record. In 13,000,000 miles flown there have been four fatalities.
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India
Syhems
RAF
Burma
Ceylon
China
Australia
Canada Emerges Stronger After War With Global Standing
Canada shows increased maturity and prestige postwar, accounting for one percent of world population yet ranking high in Allied service. At Bretton Woods it placed seventh based on income, trade and reserves, and at San Francisco World Security Conference Canadians influenced discussions.
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Canada
Bretton Woods
San Francisco
Reading the Future After War Says Canada Faces Change
The article notes that predicting the postwar era is difficult and warns against over optimism. It recalls unemployment and low morale from prewar years while stressing wartime achievements and the need for continued determination and cooperation to resolve peace era economic shifts. It calls attention to labour demand and market conditions after normalization.
Canada faces farm trade need amid war market concerns
Canada relies on foreign trade for growth and faces volatile markets for agriculture. Dr. Eric Englund noted no quick fix for market expansion, stressing that employment levels are crucial to sustaining demand and prices for farm products.
Gems of Thought on Pleasure and Truth
A compact meditation contrasts true and false pleasure with quotes from Selden Bacon Foster Eddy and Collins. It argues true pleasure requires a prepaid price of truth while false pleasure arrives after enjoyment and chastening follows.
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John Foster
Smile Awhile Banters Over Supply Law And Readings
A social dinner scene unfolds with couple banter about novels and life choices. A labor exchange clerk seeks a cashier while a husband explains supply and demand beyond the store. An after dinner speaker claims fatigue from the meal and requests a sandwich from a waiter.
Price Control And Rationing Information
Q What is the value of the coupon A P coupons are the same as preserves coupons and have the same Coupon value of half pound of sugar or standard amounts of commercially packed preserves. Q When will meat be rationed A Meat will be rationed as soon the rationing system can be worked out in detail. In the mean time consumers are asked to conserve meat voluntarily by observing meat less days in their homes on Tuesdays and Friday Q May farmers still slaughter without a permit if the meat is for their own use A Yes they may but under new slaughtering regulations and excess over these requirements must be sold only to the holder of a slaughter permit who must in turn stamp the meat and submit a record of purchase Is it against the regulations to sell a dress without labels or price tag A Yes it is Since May 1931 has been necessary to have labels placed on wearing apparel as well as many other lines of merchandise The label must state the WPTB license number the line number and size Q My restaurant now only serve butter with meals and none with light lunches such as salads omelets etc Does the Board allow this A Restaurants and other public eating places are on quotas for butter and are not required to serve butter at all meals or with special orders ee Please send your questions or your request for the pamphlet Consumers News or the Blue Book in which you keep track of your ceiling prices mentioning the name of this paper to the nearest Wartime Prices and Trade Board office in our province.
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Canada
Eric Englund
Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations
United States Department of Agriculture
Canadian Society of Techical Agriculturists
Saskatoon
WPTB
Consumers’ News
Prices and Trade Board
Musical Prodigy Jimmy Osborne Adopted by US Airmen
Nine year old English musical prodigy Jimmy Osborne, adopted by members of the US Ninth Air Force then stationed in England, studies at Perkins School for the Blind in the United States after flying from England. He has composed The New York Bounce, drank many milkshakes, and can play any recording after one hearing.
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Jimmy Osborne
United States 9Th Air Force
England
Perkins Institution For the Blind
Jimmy
New York
United States
Mary Scholey and sister Betty lead CWAC cooks in wartime Saskatoon
Mary Scholey, CQMS of No 12 CWAC Composite Stores in Regina, oversees outfitting recruits and replenishing gear for the CWAC. Her sister Betty recently arrived in England to join Central Registry, while both were among Yorkshire-born recruits who trained in 1942 and 1943. The piece notes their rise from basic training to sergeant and their role in preparing smartly dressed, ready women for service.
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CQMS
Mary Scholey
Ryerson
Sask
Mary
CWAC
Regina
C.qms
Scholey
Betty
Vermilion
Alta
Ottawa
Dundurn
Regina QM
Yorkshire
England
Graduation Tea For Treendon Training Class
Treendon Ontario completed two weeks of training with a graduation tea addressed by Lt Col Daisy I Royal and Capt Phyllis Laird. Capt Laird stressed the importance of food quality for armed forces morale. Graduates include EM M Lepp and G H Greyeyes from Saskatchewan, M E Berry from Alberta, and others from Manitoban and Stom regions.
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Carraganna
G. H. Greyeyes
Marcelins
Pie Toon Humor in Army Banter
Soldiers trade light jabs about a platoon corporal exceeding a fog horn with frequent blasts. The exchange riffs on timing and annoyance levels, highlighting wartime barracks humor through quick one liners.
Britain to Modernize Lifeboat Fleet Along Coast
Britain plans about 4500 dollars to extend and modernize lifeboat units. The program will produce sturdier motor vessels with twin engines and wartime life saving aids.
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Britain
France plans German labor use in reconstruction drive
The French government announced a plan to employ German workers in rebuilding and rehabilitating the country under a system that provides government revenue and preserves wage standards for French labor.
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John Selden
Francis Bacon
Mary Baker Eddy
William Collins
Labor Exchange
Air Force
Germany
London
War Office
WAC
Ste Eke
SHELL
Pte
Buttercup
Penelope Cwac
Teresa
Quaker Oats Company
OP Canada Limited
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