Air Training Plan Nears Third Year Of Operation
The Air Training Plan enters its third year with December 1899 meetings in Ottawa by Britain Australia New Zealand and Canada to finalize details. Initial training began in April at Toronto and the Prairies provide ideal landing conditions. Training spans every province as airmen from across Canada reside and operate in Western communities.
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Ye ‘Epes
Britain
Australia
New Zealand
Canada
Ottensend
Toronto
Dominion
Prairies
Rapid Growth of the Royal Air Force Across Allied Nations
A wartime summary praising the rapid expansion of the RCAF and allied air forces. It notes Britain, Australia, and New Zealand training young airmen in Canada, with air power patrolling coasts and spreading across vast areas. The piece recalls early RAF difficulties and evidence of growing air strength and sacrifice for victory.
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Britain
Australia
New Zealand
Commonwealth Air Training
Pisn
Canada
RAF
Food tastes and wartime cooking intrigue Lady Woolton
National tasters and gourmets discuss wartime dishes as Lady Woolton shows keen curiosity in kitchens. She visits a showroom with culinary equipment, observes a cook preparing stuffed liver and stale bread, and notes experiments like sultanas substituting for sugar in apple pudding.
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Lord Woolton
Lady Woolton
Eady "Woolton
Smile a While and Anecdotes from Everyday Life
A collage of comic exchanges and era chatter touches courtship, marriage, and the church. Jests about engagements, dinners, and a football game mix with farm hardships and a misquoted history note about the dance. The tone recalls a light page of humorous fragments.
Canadians Back Russia Aid in War Front Appeal
Canada mobilizes support for the Soviet war effort with the Canadian Aid to Russia Fund seeking 1,000,000 dollars to send medical supplies to frontline workers. The appeal targets workers, physicians, surgeons, nurses, and families across the nation.
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Stalingrad
Russia
Atlantic
Pacific
Canada
Patience Rewarded by Penny Test at Boe Towne Inn
An elderly guest at a Back Bay hotel tested a motel waitress for weeks by tipping only a penny each meal yet remained courteous and patient. After confirming the pennies were saved, she rewarded the waitress by matching every penny with a dollar, saying the test proved she could be trusted.
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New York Post
Back Bay
Jana
Redeeming Time and Living in the Present
A compact anthology of quotes on time use and living in the moment. Philosophers urge prudent choice of company and seizing the day, linking present effort to future success and avoiding haste toward tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chesterfield
Jeremy Taylor
Ifone
Mary Baker
Ruskin
Finland Civil War Roots and Debt Payments Described
The article argues Finland never had a legitimate wartime democracy, noting Bolshevik influence and General Mannerheim’s 1919-1921 actions against a people’s government. It links Finnish civil conflict to broader war dynamics and references U S debt payments rejected by Washington. It also notes antiwar isolationist sentiment in the United States and the potential impact of General Franco’s alignment.
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Finland
United States
Washington Administration
Bolshevists
Mannerheim
Germany
Ranco
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Population figures of India in a British report
The document presents an estimate of India's total area and population. It notes one fifth of the world’s population being Indian, with 2,973,000 Indians not British subjects living in Indian states that cover most of the region, and 295,827,000 Indians living in the eleven provinces of British India as British subjects.
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India
Britah India
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