Submarine Menace Shapes Allied War Effort
The article notes recent Allied victories and growing optimism, but stresses a sustained home front effort amid a serious U-boat threat. German heavy submarines threaten sea lanes, complicating convoys and risking essential cargo to Russia, North Africa, and other fronts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
Britain
United States
Canada
Russia
North Africa
Germany
Goebtels
Dried Fruits and Vegetables as Wartime Diet Aid
During shortages, dried fruits and vegetables offer a balancing option for daily meals. Prunes apricots raisins figs dates provide iron copper while dried beans and lentils offer high protein. Soaked peas and lentils enrich soups and casseroles. consider these items when meat is scarce and request the Canadian Health League leaflet for a vitamin chart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Division Health League of Canada
111 Avenue Road
Toronto
Did You Know That Odd Fact About Train Rails
The Associated Screen short explains how winter rail contraction in cold weather creates gaps between steel rails on the Canada to Toronto route. The curious note comes from a Did You Know That segment highlighting a train crossing and the physics of rail expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Timex
Toronto
Canada
Taxi golf ends at ninety three in English case
E J Adams of Gresford England, aged 93, gave up golf after a judge ruled his taxi driven rounds a waste of gasoline and fined the cab driver. A separate note praises Guerrilla leader Drafa Mikhailovitch of Yugoslavia for active irregular operations against the Nazis, calling the German troop train diversion a good day’s work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E J. Adams
Gresford
England
Adams
Drafa Mikhailovitch
Yugoslavia
Wool Production Projections for 1943 War Effort
The Current Review of Agricultural Conditions in Canada reports a 12 percent boost target for 1943 sheep and lamb marketing, with Saskatchewan the lone exception. Canada’s shorn wool in 1942 is pegged at 12.9 million pounds, up 10.6 percent from 1941, aided by 118,000 more sheep shorn. Worldwide clips rise as Australia and New Zealand forego large shipments, while the United States domestic clip nears 450 million pounds, collectively creating an expected two billion additional pounds of wool for the United Nations in 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
Canada
Saskatchewan
New Zealand
Uruguay
United States
Lesson From Leningrad Teaches The World Courage
The Ottawa Journal notes Hitler promised Leningrad would fall but the siege failed to end in surrender. Immortal Leningrad proved that liberty endures against brute force, a lesson to be learned again in other battles and times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
Leningrad
Berlin
United States
Germany
Ottawa Journal
Air Training Plan graduates listed from Canadian schools
The document lists names and locations of graduates under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Included are No. 7 Bombing and Gunnery School at Paulson Manitoba with wireless air gunners, No. 12 Service Flying Training School at Brandon Manitoba for pilots, Air Observer and Air Navigators schools in Winnipeg and Winnipeg area, and related trainees from Saskatoon Grande Prairie and Moose Jaw regions, with assorted names such as Manson Brandon and Paterson McConnell among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
No. 7 Bombing and Gunnery School
Paulson, Man
Reni
Muspigs
Beakhouse Weattork
Ata
Bet
Dutchar
Grande Prairie
AC Hutchmnenn
Raxmond
Ait Mudie James
Man
Sask
Itan No. 12
Service Flying Training School
Brandon
Arua
Glenborough
A. Collena
Oake
Jotmaen
Main Stone
Xerreat
Lady Wond
Mais
Macintosh
Bacote Air Observer School
Winnipeg
Mog Atkinson
Whitemouth
Eso
Selkirly
Lata
Alta Winnipes
Rin Wintipen
Kel, Winnipes
Ing
Sankaroo Sask
Boele Sag
Mitchem
Ferei Haina Satie Ik Ritaci
Rin
Hrandon
Stan
Warkentin
Heausejour Man
No. 7
Paulson
D. Tht
Calvary
Alta
Rawney
Moose Jaw
Wouters
Flam
Insurance pitch ends with unlikely policy sale
An insurance agent tries a risky sales tactic on a banker. The banker quips about a policy that pays nothing if death occurs within two months, challenging the agent. The banker ultimately buys, illustrating a bluntly persuasive gambit.
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Ogden
Ots
Oeden
Lydia Pinxnan
Veestanle
Sers
Leo Wank Bere Ates
Wala
ST OF Graduates
MRT
A. Pumphrey
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