Tempting Death at Canadian railway crossings warned
A Board of Transport Commissioners for Canada report urges drivers to heed warnings at level crossings. It cites 546 observed violations from April 1 to September 20, 1939, with nearly half crossing while bells rang and wigwags operated. The piece laments widespread risk and asks why drivers rush despite obvious danger.
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Board of Transport Commissioners For Canada
Canada
Dominion
Prairie City
CPR
Regina
Y Railway
Echo
Bamboo grows a foot daily in rainy season
A brief note highlights how bamboo can shoot up as much as a foot in a single day during the rainy season. It also mentions Basilisk lizards of Central America can run erect on the surface of a stream.
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Central ‘America
Birthday greeting sparks sharp Stalin Hitler tensions
In wartime rhetoric the New York Times notes how Hitler’s birthday salutation to Stalin drew a testy reply about German Soviet friendship cemented by blood. The piece mocks claims of German and Soviet closeness while hinting at bloodshed and ignored losses in war.
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Moscow
Berlin
Hitler
Comrade Stalin
von Ribbentrop
Graf Spee
Finland
New York Times
Germans lack esprit de corps among Hitler youth prisoners
Paris correspondent William Gwin Jr. reports that prisoners in French and British camps describe a new German youth formed in Nazi camps as a rigid war machine. He says most German civilians desire peace, but the active youth allied to Hitler remains bent on victory, predicting continued mechanized conflict without regime change.
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William Gwin Jr
Paris
The
Argonaut
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Poland
Heither
Germany
Wishful Thinking is Philosophy Adopted By the Nazi Rulers
The German Nazis pursued a self deluding theory that regimes age or decline and that Britain and France were worn out. They overestimated youth and strength, while Britain and France united against Germany as ships, armies, and economies faltered. The Exeter Ajax and Achilles lines symbolize resilience against the myth of inevitable German victory.
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Germany
France
Britain
Europe
Ajax
Achilles
Portland
Oregonian
Seventy-First Royal Bank of Canada Meeting Addresses War Trade
Royal Bank of Canada leader Morris W. Wilson outlines Canada's wartime economic shift since 1914, stressing diversification, mining and metal output gains, and measures to boost exports and thrift. Sydney G. Dobson reports record assets nearing 1.015 billion and a solid upswing in commercial lending amid foreign exchange controls.
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Royal Bank of Canada
Sydney G. Dobson
Canada
Morris W. Wilson
Mr. Wilson
Iron and Steel Indust
Watson
Wilson
Great Britain
France
United States
Urxemal
G. Dobson
Minger
Dobson
Royal Bank
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