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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 03, 1933
Page
6
The piece argues against global calls to curb production in farming, mining, and industry. It asserts population growth demands more goods, not less, and warns that restricting supply invites economic and climatic disruptions. Nature ultimately governs output, not man’s schemes, and overregulation traps economies in a self-made web.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics lists total taxable real estate in Canada at 8.222 billion dollars for 1932 with about 1.5 billion exempt. Ontario leads non taxables at 3.183 billion, while Quebec follows at 2.223 billion with other provinces showing smaller amounts. Taxable valuations total 8.752 billion with Ontario again atop at 3.183 billion and Saskatchewan and British Columbia following.
The American inch has been shortened by two millionths of its length to align US and English measuring bases. The change creates a difference of about one eighth inch per mile from the former standard. Gauge blocks now correct to within one millionth of an inch with certifications by the US Bureau of Standards and England's National Physical Laboratory.
The RCMP arctic patrol will focus on locating sandy beaches under the ice over the next two years aboard the Nascopic and Mounties ships. Vilhjalmur Stefansson wired General MacBrien asking for cooperation of the police in the search, noting he has never seen such beaches and seeks confirmation of his experiences.
An elderly Swansea traveller lost money fifteen months ago. A kind girl, Miss Jean Dawes of Senghenydd, lent her 108 pounds. The money was returned by post and weeks later Miss Dawes, now a Pontypridd hairdresser’s assistant, received a solicitor’s letter stating the old lady had died and left her 3,000 pounds.
London police, already skilled in first aid, driving, swimming, and lifesaving, will receive Bremen training to handle rescuing people from burning buildings.
Professor William Oliver of the School of Organization at Edinburgh University condemns modern education as clogging the mind with dead matter. He argues it creates class conscious, lazy youths, distrust between education and industry, and a preference for clerical roles over factory work. He cites engineers and manufacturers as bearing blame for managers drawn from offices rather than production.
An unplanned frozen aquarium in Seattle draws up to 1500 visitors daily as strange fish from many waters gaze from ice encrusted corridors. Harry E. Larson explains the collection grew from fishermen bringing specimens to refrigeration rooms at the port, becoming world famous.
A parachute ejector device for disabled aircraft cabins was demonstrated at Roosevelt Field New York before airline officials and aviators. Eight dummies were dropped safely from 150 feet and two parachute jumpers from 1500 feet, showing effective deployment and descent.
A survey in St Louis Montana by local advertising students found 1380 of 1545 interviewees read newspaper ads before planning shopping trips and 1322 said ads created a desire to shop even without prior plans. Police in Glasgow Scotland are rounding up counterfeiters.
Kansas City pawnbroker Ben Hurst advertises the largest pawn shop west of the Mississippi and promises to lend on tangible value. Williard Herman of Oregon MO sought 250 dollars with a plane as security. Hurst rented a hangar to store the aircraft and mailed Herman the money.
The Vymaxwon, a Buckminster Fuller designed three wheel vehicle built on streamlining for speed, ran at Bridgeport Connecticut with 3,000 spectators. Fuller steered to 70 miles per hour over a one third mile cement test road at Seaside Park.
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