Radar advances from war forge peacetime uses worldwide
The article traces radar development from wartime breakthroughs to peacetime applications. It notes its pivotal role in the Battle of Britain, naval warfare, air sea rescue, D Day, and the V two threat, predicting safer fog free travel and reduced road accidents, with Canada cited for key contributions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ministry of Information
Britain
Arthur Tedder
England
Europe
Germany
Canada
Lincoln Turns Down Doorkeeper Applicant With Wry Reproach
An amused President Lincoln gently rejects a hopeful but unqualified candidate for the House doorkeeper post. The man admits no experience or study, and Lincoln counters with a pointed exchange about qualifications, then the applicant departs humbly but persists in claiming he has qualifications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abraham Lincomnce
House of Representatives
House
Lincoln
Ingenuity of England and the Star Spangled Banner
The article recalls Lord Cromer blocking Spanish moves to Manila via Suez and Britain's aid in Dewey's Manila Bay actions. Henry Wickham Steed notes a 1598 European plan to unite against the United States and credits Britain for intercepting those designs, preserving American strength.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgina Harriman Owen
New York Herald-Tribune
Lord Cromer
Spain
Manila
Suez Canal
Barcelona
England
Dewey
Mafila Bay
Kaiser
Admiral von Diedrich
Henry Wickham Steed
Europe
United States
Great Britain
Wonder Drug Penicillin Cures Influenza Meningitis in UK
The Manchester Guardian reports penicillin curing influenzal meningitis in a child after initial doubt. United Kingdom doctors also use the drug in treating several conditions including etherax and pneumonia to gangrene and diphtheria, with many divorces implied in the text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester Guardian
England
United Kingdom
Manchester
Mineralized Waters Of Little Manitou Lake Study Commissioned
The Saskatchewan government forms a royal commission to study the mineral rich waters near Watrous at Little Manitou Lake. Members include J G Rempel, W A Riddell, Dr B Bachman, and Dr W P Little Manitou Laxe. The lake’s buoyant waters attract health claims for rheumatic and skin diseases. Mineral salts have been sold and a past development venture stalled by finances. In England only baptismal names are signed by the royal family in official documents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Commission
Saskatchewan
Little Manitou Lake
Watrous
Sask
J. G. Rempel
University of Saskatchewan
W. A. Riddell
B Bachman
Regina
W. P. John
Little Manitou
Financial Post
England
Price Control And Rationing Information
Readers are guided on filing complaints about merchandise and price practices with local Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices. It explains diet meat coupons require a medical certificate, how to remake used clothing via a guide, and confirms dairy butter remains couponed at half a pound per coupon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prices and Trade Board
UNRRA
Wartime Prices and ‘Trade Board
Americans Enlist in Canada Forces in World War II Totals
A Canadian Forces total shows 12,611 Americans enlisted in Canada during the Second World War across the RC AF US Army and Navy branches. About 585 joined the RCAF, 4,740 joined the Army, and 265 joined the Navy by late 1944. Discharges reached 79 in the Navy and thousands will receive official discharge benefits totaling well over 8 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Canada
RCAF
Uly
LE Rcaf
Army
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Mackenzie
War Service
Veterans’ Insurance Act
English Farm Buying Surges Amid Strong Prices
English buyers flock to farms as markets show brisk purchases and prices rise. The public views land as sound wealth and vital for food production, sparking a broad interest in land ownership across Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Britain
Fish Shipment From Great Slave Lake Reaches Edmont on Rail
Initial shipment of about 100 tons of lake trout and whitefish, authorized by Ottawa this summer, arrived in Edmont on Waterways in five refrigerated cars. The fish traveled 400 miles by cooler barges across Great Slave Lake and via rivers to Fort Smith portage, then by truck. McInnes Products Corp holds the fishing rights and sought a quota of two billion pounds. The shipment represents roughly a tenth of the season’s catch for Eastern markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Slave Lake
Ottawa
Edmonton
Slave
Athabasca
Fort Smith
McInness Products Corp
Financial Post
Crossword Puzzle Clue List
Puzzle entries include hints for words such as to weaken borne win fasten prevail deadly and a seven part clue for beverage with several numbered positions and undefined cross references unresolved in the fragmentary page.
Germans Aid Freeing POWs At Mannheim Depot
Allies report Gertin prisoners of war assist in freeing U S soldiers. redeployment duties involve occupation forces stacking used tires at a Mannheim salvage depot as part of the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertin
Mannheim
CWAC Stories Highlight Food Supply Roles and Repatriation
Cpl Raith Parry of the Main Supply Depot Regina explains the CWACs role in feeding Army personnel, noting vast quantities of food handled and high standards. The piece lists returning Saskatchewan CWAC members, details about wearing civvies postwar, and a British wife joining the CWAC in Regina amid wartime and postwar adjustments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cpl
Raith Parry
Regina
Sask
Cpl. Parry
Hetherington Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Canadian Women's Army Corps
Vermilion
Alberta
Edmonton
Alta
Service Corps
No. 12
Airport No. 11
Yorkton
Parry
New Rail Car Designed For Dancing And Movies
Pullman Standard unveils a new railway car aimed at postwar travel. The forward half serves as a day club and night club, while the rear half is a daytime lounge and nighttime movie theatre. It features a cubicle with radio phonograph and projector. The dance floor spans 20 by nine feet and the theatre seats 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pullman-Standard
Gems of Thought on Prudence and Virtue
A collection of aphorisms on prudence from John Mason Samuel Johnson Mary Baker Eddy Epicurus and Burke notes prudence as rule bound virtue relating to reason truth and decency plus a final line on sperm whales yielding up to 145 barrels of oil as a non sequitur fact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Mason
Samuel Johnson
Mary Baker Eddy
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Abraham Lincoln
Wonder Drug
Consumers’ News
O “Reraly
Canadian Women’s Army Corps
the Convent
Mediterranean
Pegey Johnson
Glenora
Mabel Bates
Porcupine Plains
Hilda Clark
Goldie Margolis
Canwood
Dorothy Hook
Prince Albert
Tillie Handicroft
LeRoy
Marge Syme
W Nota
Sgt
Bates
Hock
Clark
Reggie” Brownlee
Husband
Larry
Brownee
Saskatoon
Pte Brownlee
Coulson
Surrey
London
Vancouver
Pte
Brownlee
CWA
Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps
Nieuw Amsterdam
Buttercup
Prudence
Epicurus
Jeremy Collier
Burke
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