Increase Seen In Production Of Commodities
Ottawa reports an optimistic outlook after strike settlements. Production of electrical apparatus, automobile parts, rubber, chemicals, and brass is rising with about 26,008 workers involved on Oct 1, all but 700 back at work. Unemployment fell to under three percent, with regional improvements in Quebec, Ontario, and the Maritimes and a steady recovery in the Prairies and Pacific. Unplaced applicants total 134,000 with 133,000 vacancies nationwide at month end.
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Dominion
Quebec
Ontario
Prairies
Pacific
National Employment Service
Maritimes
Western National Employment Service
Calgary
Edmonton
Regina
Saskatoon
Winenipeg
Fort William
Navy plans Antarctic training expedition with Byrd
The Navy to deploy 4,000 personnel and 13 ships this winter to the Antarctic under Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd. The mission emphasizes training under polar conditions and consolidating Byrd’s earlier 1941 expedition results. Officers deny uranium prospecting as a primary aim, noting minerals found would be incidental to operations and territorial claims will not be recognized.
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Byrd Washington
Navy
Richard E. Byrd
Antarctic
Army Air and
Defence
Byrd
Forrest Sherman
Britain and Russia seek wide scale trade deal
London reports Britain and Russia are negotiating a large scale trade agreement. Russia weighs British offers and may require goods in exchange with a small gold payment. Delegates seek machinery electrical engineering equipment and machine tools from Britain.
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London
Britain
Russia
Sugar rationing to be reviewed by food council
Ottawa reports the International Emergency Food council meeting in Washington at month end will determine sugar allotments for 1947. The wartime food board will be replaced by a 20 nation council. Canada seeks higher per person sugar shares, aiming toward 75 to 80 pounds, approaching prewar levels. Canada’s 1946 allotment was 504,000 tons, with beet sugar production rising as Europe recovers, while 1939 consumption neared 98 pounds per person.
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Ottawa
International Emergency Food Council
Washington, D.C
Combined Food Board
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Russia
Europe
Butter Production Falls in October Across Canada
Canada saw an October decline of about nine percent in butter output, with total production at 21,807,000 pounds versus 23,926,000 a year earlier. Provinces all posted declines, totaling 245,904,000 pounds for the ten month period, compared with 268,752,000 in 1945, prompting talk of potential future ration cuts if the trend continues.
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Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
National contests at Roy al Winter Fair crown farm clubs
Saskatchewan and Quebec led with two wins apiece as boys and girls farm clubs competed across seven events at the Royal Winter Fair grounds. Quebec topped dairy cattle and swine while beef cattle, seed grain, seed potato, poultry, and home making titles went to Craik Beef Calf club Nor quay Seed club Richmond Potato club Holland Poultry club and Vellore Home making club Ontario respectively. International air routes from the United States to England and Ireland report weight losses of up to five pounds per trip.
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Saskatchewan
Quebec
British Columbia
Manitoba
Ontario
Craik
Norquay
Richmond
Holland Poultry Club
Vellore
Rdesses
United States
England
Ireland
Food Crisis In Germany May Affect Britain
Washington reports Britain may slash rations in its zone of Germany as imports and distribution redraws loom amid talks on economic unification of Berlin zones. U.S. aid and a wheat loan are discussed while a crackdown on shortages grows urgent. Saskatchewan collision kills two students near Cudworth.
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Germany
Britain
Washington
U.S
Saskatoon
University of Saskatchewan
Franklin Tomashewiski
Adam Gingara
Brooksby, Sask
Cudworth
Sask
Miner elected to Alma College Senate in Canada
The General Council of the Church of Canada honored Jack Miner posthumously with a scholarship at Alma College in St. Thomas Ontario. His granddaughter Wilhelmina Conklin Miner is the first recipient. Miner’s election to the Alma College Senate signals strong support for the women’s college and its goals.
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General Council
Church of Canada
Montreal
Miner
Board of Regents
Alma College
St. Thomas
Ontario
Jack Miner
Wilhelmina Conklin Miner
United Church Colleges
Record harvest forecast boosts U.S. crop output
The agriculture department reports October weather has lifted crop yields and acreage projections, signaling the United States may achieve its largest ever annual crop production. Forecasters previously expected records but recent favorable conditions solidified the prediction across many crops.
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Washington
United States
Agriculture Department
Christmas Seals Help Fight Tuberculosis in Saskatchewan
The Saskatchewan Anti Tuberculosis League pressed a preventive programme in 1946 with mobile units visiting 157 communities and examining over 145000 people at the Christmas Seal Fund cost. Twelve clinics operated nationwide as league consultants visited family physicians.
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Saskatchewan Anti-Tuberculosis League Wa
League
Christmas Seals Aid Saskatchewan Tuberculosis Prevention
The 1947 programme aims to cover the province with three fluorographic units for early TB detection. The Christmas Seal campaign supports prevention, featuring a lamplighter motif and a call to all homes to remain safe, especially ages 15 to 35. Write to the Christmas Seal Committee at Fort San to obtain seals.
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Saskatchewan
Fort San
South Africa Moves to Annex Southwest Africa Trusteeship Drama
South Africa announced it fed territory was ready for annexation of Southwest Africa amid UN trusteeship debate. Britain supported the plan while Soviet Yugoslav and Cuban delegates denounced it as a charter violation, citing polls limited to tribal chieftains. Smuts defended annexation, citing native wishes.
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Lake Success
Theis South
Arthur G. Bottomley
United Nations Trusteeship Committee
Nicolai Novikov
Bottomley
United Kingdom
South Africa
Africa
Novikov
Dimitar Viahov
Yugoslavia
Russia
Vahov
Cuba
Guy Perez Cisneros
Southwest
Smuts
United Nations
Southwest Africa
Smauts
United States Opposes Europe Food Fund at UN
United States opposition to a proposed 400000000 emergency food fund for Europe after UNRRA fuels expectations the UN would not approve the plan. Dean Acheson signaled Washington would oppose, favoring national rather than international relief distribution.
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Europe
Lake Success
United Nations
UNRRA
Dean Acheson
Washington
FH. LaGuardia
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