World Happenings Briefly Told
Canada will send a delegation to the first post war Boy Scout international jamboree in Paris in 1947. The British general election yielded 25,007,107 votes from 33,000,000 eligible voters. Churchill received a tumultuous ovation at Brussels as he was made an honorary member of the Academy of Science. An explorer plans a fourth Antarctic expedition to secure Australian whaling rights. Britain and the Dominions study empire wide munitions production. Over 1,000 UK railway engines supplied to the liberation army to push Normandy to Berlin. About 10 percent of Canadians face psychiatric problems. War crimes detection machines cost 1,000,000 dollars, vetting 100 daily from 5,000,000 soldiers and civilians in the rogues’ gallery.
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Canada
Pare
Amirectorate
Winston Churchill
Brussels
Belgium
The
Academy of Science
Britain
Dominions
United Kingdom
British Liberation Army
Normandy
Berlin
Lorne Carrenter
Toronto Psychiatric Hospital
Toronto
Postwar Trains to Feature Comfort and Speed Upgrades
Railroads plan a major postwar expansion in 1946 with full sleeper cars and lunch-counter coaches, schedules cut up to 40 percent, and more than $100 million in new passenger cars for 32 lines. Diesel locomotives, streamlined trains, and glass enclosed observation cars on the Chicago to Twin Cities Zephyrs are planned, with onboard dining, improved baggage handling, and faster service to meet air and bus competition.
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Railway Age
Chicago-Twin Cities Zephyrs
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Sista Tomes
Greater
New Neighbors Move In As Mrs Smith Notes Quiet Home
Mrs Smith observes movers at the new neighbors' home while her husband jokes they lack social trappings. The dialogue hints at curiosity about the newcomers' status and possessions, ending with a quip about a bank account.
President Truman wax image fitted with Vaughan aided suit
Brig Gen Harry H Vaughan arranged for a gray plaid suit to dress the wax likeness of President Truman in the wax works at a London exhibit. T. L. Rowland, secretary to Prime Minister Attlee, received the suit and Mr Bowman took it to London with Attlee on the trip.
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Harry H. Vaughan
Truman
London
T. L. Rowlan
Attlee
Mr. Truman
Bowman
Inflation and shortages haunt Europe after liberation
AE Powley of CBC reports inflation erodes currency value in Holland where a guilder buys less than before and cigarettes fetch high prices. He notes the spiral of inflation, wartime deprivations, and the rise of black markets as shortages persist and only adequate food supplies can curb them.
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AE Powhey
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canada
Europe
Holland
Powley
Britain's New Floating Whale Factory Sails On Maiden Voyage
The Southern Venturer, Britain’s modern floating whaling factory, left England on October 28 for an Antarctic expedition. It aims to produce dehydrated whale meat for Europe and supplies oil, vitamins, and fertilizers from whaleblubber and livers. The ship can process 150 tons of whale per hour and store 19 500 tons of oil.
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Britain
Southern Venturer
England
Antarctic
Europe
Fort William
Preventing Forest Fires Highlighted In Canadian Talk
R V Whelan of the Lands and Forests department warned in Sault Ste Marie that since confederation Canada has lost about three million cords of timber to fires. He illustrated the loss by calculating a four foot high cordwood pile stretching from Fort William to London, England to show the danger of neglect.
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Canada
Sault Ste. Marie
Fort William
Coined Word Genocide Defined by Nuremberg Trial
The Montreal Gazette notes Prof. Raphael Lemkin coined genocide to describe systematic Nazi destruction of nations. It contrasts atrocity with intentional, calculated killings using gas chambers and furnaces as designed instruments. A new term, genocide, may enter permanent language.
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United Nations
Nurenberg
Raphael Lemkin
Duke University
Lemkin
Montreal Gazette
Health League of Canada backs compulsory milk pasteurization
The annual Health League of Canada meeting approves a resolution urging all provinces outside Ontario to enact compulsory pasteurization of milk sold for human consumption. It cites raw milk as a carrier of germs and disease and argues pasteurization preserves nutrition while preventing typhoid, tuberculosis, diphtheria and other illnesses.
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Eee
Dominion
Health League of Canada
Bea
Onawo
Ontario
The
Canada
Mit
Tov
Family budgeting tips for meat rationing menus
The article guides a four-person family to plan meals during meat rationing. It suggests a Sunday roast, using two coupons and five tokens for a four pound rib roast, plus Group B Yorkshire pudding and Bravy for Monday. Tuesday offers veal cutlets, Thursday lamb chops, and Friday unrationed fish. A tomato sauce pasta dish and other off the ration items help stretch the week.
Color, light, and the meaning of white and black
A reader quotes Webster and Newton on color theory noting white and black are not colors. The piece discusses colors as light wavelengths and their complements, and observes a lazy bumble bee contrasted with a busy honey bee in daily work patterns.
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Dort
Arthur News-Chronicle
Gallant Warspite Battleship in Two World Wars
Windsor Star column extols Warspite as a symbol of British naval power enshrined in memory and possibly docked as a memorial. It notes her service from Jutland to the present war and praises Royal Navy legacy while contrasting with other ships like RMS Queen Mary. A separate note explains three-way cephalopod locomotion via tentacles fins and mantle expulsion of water.
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Hams
Warspite
Southhampton
Jutland
Murmansk
Pacific
Great Britain
Royal Navy
England
W. L. Clark
Windsor Star
Atomic penicillin touted as 300 times stronger drug
A German synthetic drug claimed 306 times stronger than penicillin and testable in clinics was named atomic penicillin by British workers. Discovered by Professor Richard Kuhn of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Heidelberg, it is prepared from salicylic acid and bromine.
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Medical Research Council
Richard Kuhn
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
Heidelberg
Kuhn
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