Salvage Drives War Effort Across Canada
The article notes the growing importance of salvaging waste materials for wartime production. It highlights aluminum, paper, rags, fats, bones, and scrap iron, explains scrap programs, and credits the Canadian Institute of Secondary Materials and salvage dealers for organizing and channeling materials to industry and defense.
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Dominion
Canada
Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Minister of National War Services
Canadian Institute of Secondary Materials
Secretary of State
Federal Department of Salvage
Germany
Canada Needs You from Coastal Recruiting Poster Era
A wartime appeal stresses every citizen's duty to support the war effort. It calls on men to join or donate, housewives to economize, business leaders to accept restrictions, teachers to guide, and workers to boost productivity. It urges morale, unity, and voluntary sacrifice for victory and postwar reconstruction.
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Canada
War industry gains by engineering speed up
The Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto notes the engineering profession has markedly sped up the Dominion's war effort. He cites machine tool capacity up by more than 800 percent though much remains secret as war demands continue. He also remarks on the practical wartime need to live cheaper than before.
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Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
University of Toronto
Average Length Of A Generation Across Time
Metropolitan Life Bulletin explains generation length varies by view. If 100000 babies are tracked for life, their generation length equals about 63 years, though overlap occurs as children replace parents. Average mother to daughter about 28 years and father to son about 33 years, yielding roughly three generations per century.
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Metropolitan Life Bulletin
Rural drama grants three one act plays bright stage life
Richard in Northern Saskatchewan entered three one act plays in a Class B Drama festival at North Battleford, winning awards. The article argues rural communities benefit from varied entertainment and using the whole stage as a front room to engage audiences, with comments by Mary Ellen and a note to sendFeedback.
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Mary Ellen
Richard
Saskatchewan
North Battleford
Mary Ellen Box
Regina
Belected Recipes for Nut Date Corn Flake Cookies
A recipe yields about three dozen two inch cookies. It lists shortening brown sugar eggs flour soda baking powder salt chopped nuts dates corn flakes and cooking directions. The method blends shortening and sugar then adds eggs and dries ingredients before folding in nuts dates and corn flakes and baking on a greased sheet at a moderate oven for about 15 minutes.
Aunt Janes Krisp Magic Macaroons
Instructions describe making macaroons with shredded coconut, condensed milk, and oven popped rice cereal baked 350 degrees for about 10 minutes until browned. Notes reference Napoleon and soldiers preferring his food, and mention Africa with many different tongues.
Czech Exile Minister Sees Nazi Grip Slipping in Europe
Jan Mamryk, Czech Government-in-exile Foreign Minister, told Ottawa press the Nazis are losing grip as underground pressure grows in conquered Europe. He cited ongoing Czech sabotage as a key factor, saying German overreach is faltering under resistance.
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Nexis
Europe
Jan Mamryk
Ottawa
Frozen Porridge Stays Handy for Early New England Travellers
Travelers in early New England carried frozen bean porridge and used hatchets to hack off bites when hungry. The improvised food source reflected frontier life and resourcefulness in harsh conditions.
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New England
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