Unsung Heroes of Wartime Salvage Drive
A tribute to home-front effort in Canada praising salvage work from attics and garages. It highlights Mrs. Percy Gilbert of Moncton who built a salvage HQ, organized collections of scrap metal paper and clothing, and inspired citizens. The piece notes salvage sustains war production and spawns postwar reuse industries, proving thrift a vital virtue.
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Percy Gilbert
Moncton
New Brunswick
National Salvage Office
Canada
Russian women learn shipbuilding in weeks, Soviet official says
An official of the Soviet shipbuilding industry told Moscow radio that Russian girls and women have built, built and repaired ships after a few weeks of work, a task many believed could only be done by men. The broadcast was heard in London.
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Moscow Radio
London
Patience Needed to Enter America From Lisbon
A shy man at the United States Consulate in Lisbon asks for entrance to the United States. The Attache, busy with countless pleas, replies that it is impossible now and to return in ten years. The man, hopeful yet weary, asks if morning or afternoon would be better when he returns. London Sunday.
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Lisbon
America
United States
London
Hippo Yawn Reaches Four Feet Wide Report
A hippopotamus proves surprisingly expansive in its gape, capable of a four foot yawn. The observation highlights the animal’s vast jaw span and potential display behavior noted by witnesses.
Bismarck as Unsinkable Ship Myth Challenged by Experts
Naval architects argue that the Bismarck’s supposed unsinkability came from its 135 watertight compartments and heavy armor, a design far beyond prior battleships. Despite hits from air torpedoes and ships, only an aerial torpedo disabling steering gear proved its Achilles heel. The Tirpitz remains Germany’s only other ship of the class, awaiting its fate.
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Atlantic
Britain
Germany
Royal Navy
St.Thomas
Sour Cream Muffins and Bran Spice Muffins
A clustered recipe note describes Sour Cream Muffins with sour cream molasses and all bran, yielding 18 muffins, plus Bran Spice Muffins using all bran, molasses, milk, and spices, baked 20 to 25 minutes or about 20 minutes, yielding about 12 to 15 muffins.
Useful Reminders for Cat Care from Our Dumb Animals
Our Dumb Animals offers reminders on keeping a cat healthy and safe. Always provide fresh water as milk is not a substitute. Cats are easily poisoned by antiseptics, soaps, and medicines harmless to humans or dogs. Do not expose cats to tar gasoline turpentine or powders containing these substances.
Perseid meteor shower known as Tears of St Lawrence
The Perseid meteors, or Tears of St Lawrence, arrive each August and have a 1100 year recorded history. Visible before midnight in the northeast and overhead after midnight, they fall about 30 per hour. Meteors are tear shaped and travel 40 miles per second, burning at about 50 miles altitude. They orbit the sun in an ellipse of 108 years, part of a wide dust stream possibly from a disintegrated ancient comet.
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St. Lawrence
St. Lawrence's
Intercept Pigeons and Falcons in WWII Tactics
George C. Goodwin of the American Museum of Natural History suggests the U S army could use deadly hawks to disrupt carrier pigeon communications. He notes German falconers and a 1938 German falconry magazine as possible evidence of falcon use.
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George C. Goodwin
Curtor
American Museum of Natural History
United States Army
Goering
Goodwin
Germany
England
Sante Claus Referred To As Father Frost In Russia
A historical note identifies Sante Claus with the Russian title Father Frost, reflecting cultural naming variants in regional legends and traditions.
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Sante Claus
Father
Frost
Russia
Powerful explosive claims spark censorship charge by scientists
John J. ONeill, president of the National Association of Science Writers, accuses the U S government of censoring laboratories working on a uranium based element for a potential 10 pound war device. A New York Herald Tribune science editor condemns the administration for a totalitarian push while warning that scientists fear political control over their discoveries.
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John J. O'Neill
National Association of Science Writers
United States
New York Herald-Tribune
Housatonic Valley
Aluminum Rivets Stay Soft When Cold in Airplane Work
Aluminum rivets used in aircraft manufacture remain soft in freezing temperatures. They are moved to a dry ice cooled room immediately after production and become hard once installed and warmed.
Moonlight salvage crews to boost scrap metal drive
Work by moonlight gangs to salvage gut Jers from bombed buildings will be at work soon in London as part of the ministry of supply plans to intensify the scrap metal drive. Labor transport and machinery will be recruited in an effort to salvage every usable piece of scrap metal before the fall.
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London
Ministry of Supply
Canadians Seek More Eggs From Hens In War Years
The wartime plan calls for a significant boost in egg production with a target of two extra eggs per month from every hen in 1941 42. Britain urges larger Canadian egg supplies to meet growing shortages and support allied efforts.
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Tain
Britain
Germany Could Struggle to Occupy All of Russia
Even if Germany defeated Russia it would be difficult to occupy the vast country which covers one seventh of the planet's land surface.
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Germany
Russia
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