Leadership in War and the Value of Allied Leadership
The article extols leaders who guided Britain the United States and the Soviet Union through wartime crises. It contrasts Axis predation with Allied resolve, praising wartime mobilization, and notes the Crimea conference where Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin agreed to curb German aggression and seek future peaceful leadership for Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Japan
Italy
Great Britain
United States
Russia
United Nations
Cromwell
Pitt
Gladstone
Drake
Wellington
Nelson
Britain
Crimea
Churchill
Roosevelt
Stalin
Insect and Mite Control by Chloropicrin Fumigation Study
Experimental work by the Division of Entomology of the Dominion Department of Agriculture shows that insects and mites in stored grain can be controlled by fumigation with chloropicrin. This method has been widely used by grain companies across Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Division of Entomology
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Canada
Smile a While Funny Fragments and Quick Jokes
A collection of short quips and cartoonish lines about daily life. It features jokes about boats, phones, a military private, a mother’s yard measure, a humorous rope trick, nosy neighbors, a woodcutter father, and bathwater safety with a baby thermometer noted as unnecessary. The tone is light and whimsical with quick setups and punchlines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny
Mr. Giddy
Price Control And Rationing Information
Questions and answers outline sugar and preserves coupons for canning, with schedules for coupon validity March into July, maple syrup ordering via preserves coupons, and tenant notice rules when selling a mortgaged or rented home along with instructions to request the Consumers News pamphlet or Blue Book from Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Consumers News
Prices and Trade Board
Air secretary denies Sikorski death overloading claim
In Commons the air secretary rebutted charges that Sikorski’s 1943 death resulted from an overloaded aircraft taking off from Gibraltar. He said a broken machine part caused loss of control and that Gott died when his plane was strafed on a Libyan airfield in 1942. Blind Edinburgh author wins 100 prize for 60,000 word Braille novel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air Arcmy
Sinclair
Wladyslaw
Sikorski
Gibraltar
W. H. E. Gott
Fighth Army
Libyan
Elizabeth Whitehead
Edinburgh
Saskatchewan CWAC transfers and postwar views
Pte Christena Fraser transfers from Kitchener to London Ontario and served at No 1 Navigation School Rivers Manitoba before enlisting in Winnipeg in 1948. Several Saskatchewan girls enlist, including Plotkin Jeffery Loughins Sippola Wilton Knott Murray Erickson Caplette Devlin.q Promoted Cpl Valdina Abrahamson to sergeant in Winnipeg. A maple leaf poll shows mixed views on women in a postwar army with quotes from Thompson Reeves Lochhead Mercer and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christena Doreen Fraser Brinferry
Sask
No. 3 Cw.ac
Saskatchewan
Cw.ac
Regin
Sylvia Plotkin
Brooksby
Dorothy Jeffery
Kamsack
Estaire Loughins
Kinistine
Tillie Sippola
Shaunavon
Rosetta Wilton
Meskanaw
Esther Knott
Leon Lake
Eva Murray
Moosomin
Ada Erickson
White Fox
Muriel Caplette
Delmas
Bernice Devlin
Calder
Cpl
Valdina Hope Abrahamson
Elfros, Sask
CWAC
Winnipeg
Army Examiner
No. 10
Leslie
Saska
Alberta
Veterans’ Guard of Canada
Maple Leaf
Italy
Cwacs
Mediterranean
Carol ‘Thompson
Carnduff, Sask
Mary Reeves
Merritt
B.C
Mary
Isobel Lochhead
Calgary
Nancy Mercer
Manville
Alta
Vancouver Schoolboy Returns After Eight Month Freighter Voyage
George Brown, 16, left for a world trip aboard a freighter last June and spent eight months visiting Australia, China, India, South Africa, the Belgian Congo, and Trinidad before arriving back in Vancouver in February to resume classes. The voyage disrupted school start as planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Brown
Vancouver
George
Australia
China
India
South Africa
Belgian Congo
Trinidad
Garden Notes on Preparation and Planting
Victory Gardens yield best results with thorough fall plowing or digging and spring cultivation to free soil of twitch and weeds. Planting should wait for firm soil, with hardy flowers sown early and semi tropical types kept frost-free. roll lawns when ground is soft and follow feed directions from a Canadian seed supplier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victory Gardens
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Tintex
Kra Cho Spring
Sonny
Tommy
Canad
CYS Perro
S.cinkhama
Orien Ie Sisk
Ramsay Compmiguieres
Avtormega
Salada
Wac
Oreash
Stimmlat
Burgess Batteries
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