World Happenings Briefly Told
Field guns on skis mark the Sen Army winter warfare effort. Japanese workers are being hired in Ontario lumber camps. US may ration retreaded tires and tires in coming month per sources. Britain will lend China up to 50 million pounds for war. Siberian regions are being cultivated to bolster the war effort. Japanese detainees in the southwest Pacific, including women, arrive in Australia for internment. Canadian refineries end 1941 with 121,767,659 pounds of raw sugar, down from 140,970,614 pounds in 1940.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
New Plastic Material Raxcelite Introduced as War Material Substitute
Designers for Industry announces Raxcelite a plastic-like wood substitute using Pessier water silicate of soda soy bean protein and quicklime. It is claimed strong heat insulating and easy to handle and will not swell or bulge.
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Fighting The Japs Fouga 400 In Fighting The Japanese
A London Listener excerpt discusses the Japanese fighting spirit and resolve, noting hard work and tenacity among both genders. The author predicts a likely severe internal upheaval in Japan driven by factional strife, while acknowledging the difficulty of the coming conflict. Robert Nichols is cited.
Telegraph Girls Replace Boys In War Time Service
A Toronto Telegram report asserts that since the war the telegram delivery workforce has shifted to girls who outperform boys in speed accuracy and courtesy. It claims girls are brisker, more reliable, less prone to fuss, quicker at finding addresses, cheerier, and well presented in uniforms supplied by employers.
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New CBC Programmes Hit schedules after Daylight Saving
Canada adopts National Daylight Saving on February 9 and CBC adjusts programming. War service themes align with the shift as listeners note changes to air times. A new series with the Director of Public Information, As A Matter of Fact, airs daily at 5 00 pm CST and 4 00 pm MST except weekends.
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United States
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Director of Public Information
CBC to broadcast British Ballad Operas from Toronto Sundays
The weekly CBC program features British Ballad Operas heard Sundays at 7.30 pm CST 6.30 pm MST with Goossens conducting Handel Acis and Galatea in January and Rose Bampton in Purcell Dido and Aeneas. Other artists include John Brownlee Raoul Jobin and conductors Edwin McArthur Sir Ernest MacMillan Arthur Benjamin. Featured operas include The Bohemy Girl Merrie Inglard The Immortal Hour Hug the Drover The Devil Take Her and Tran- Ut through Fire Healey Willan’s Odyssey of 1942. The Rana Goliath frog note ends fragment.
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Metropolitania Company
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Arthur Benjamin
Healey Willan
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