Navy launches fall recruiting drive across Canada
The Royal Canadian Navy seeks 10 000 permanent personnel and 16 000 reserve members to crew more than 30 ships and aircraft carriers in peacetime service. New pay, benefits, and housing accompany the drive as the force emphasizes home ports and extended training cruises for officers and ratings.
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Navy
Acros Canada
Army
RCAF
Sea Cadets
Royal Canadian Naval College
Easter Canada
Western Canada
Pacific Coast
Uganda
South America
Nations Prepare For World Trade Conference
Seventeen nations prepare a preparatory meeting to form an international trade organization aimed at stabilizing and expanding world trade. Delegates draw up a rotating agenda covering US proposals on high employment, tariff reductions, cartel control, and commodity provisions amidst tensions with Britain Commonwealth talks.
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London
Australia
New Zealand
Honey crop sets Dominion record in Manitoba output
The Dominion honey crop is forecast to reach a new high with about 6 200 000 pounds produced in Alberta this year as provincial apiarist W G Le Maistre announced Manitoba should rank second with roughly 000 000 pounds.
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Ebmue
Dominion
Alberta
W. G. le Maistre
Manitoba
Allied Control Authority Issues New Occupied Zones Code
The Allied Control Authority publishes a directive restricting criticism of decisions and future conferences on Germany while allowing limited German press liberties. It bans nationalistic ideas and rumors, demands unity among occupiers, and permits discussion of German political issues and factual world events in German papers.
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Allied Control Authority
Hidgen
Poldam
Allied Powers
Germany
Britain aids allies via white paper total about £2.08 billion
London reports that Britain's mutual aid to LM allies and friendly neutrals from 1641 to autumn 1951 totaled £2,078,500,000 with $3.514 billion. About 60 percent went to the United States, roughly 15 percent to Russia, and the remainder to France, Poland, Greece, Czechoslovakia, and others. At wartime peak the United Nations aided one another at about £4.5 million yearly, near prewar export value.
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London
Hugh Dalton
Exchequer
Britain
United States
Russia
France
Poland
Greece
Czechoslovakia
Norway
Belgium
Netherlands
Yugoslavia
Denmark
Turkey
Portugal
China
United Nations
Retaining Controls on Meat Prices Stay Ottawa Policy
Top prices board officials in Donald Gordon's temporary absence asserted that US meat price controls will not influence Canadian policy to keep meat price controls. They dismissed concerns of significant cross border smuggling to exploit rising US prices, noting little previous smuggling when US controls lapsed last summer and US prices surged then fell below prior OPA levels.
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Prices Board
Ottawa
Donald Gordon
Gordon
Manitoba
Alberta
Saskatchewan
O.P A
Wyoming Hereford sale sets high price for bull
The Wyoming Hereford ranch annual sale drew stockmen from 40 states as a top bid of 35000 dollars bought prize bull WHR Roy Helmsman by W E Boeing of Seattle. Last year’s top price was 27500 dollars. A separate note mentions Temple Bar in London once marked traitor heads, torn down in 1878.
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Wyoming
W. E. Boeing
Seattle
Boeing Aircraft Company
Roy Helmsman
Temple Bar
City of
London
Concern Over Delays in German Reparations
Brussels reports rising alarm at the inter-allied reparations agency over slow relocation of industrial equipment from western Germany for reparations. Delays risk organized German resistance. the control council in Berlin must speed plant designations to the LARA for rapid allocation among 18 member nations.
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Brussels
Inter-Allied
Canada
Germany
Allied Control Council
Berlin
Council
LARA
Russia
Poland
Control Council
Europeans In Fear Of War After Peace Talks
From Paris to Berlin and Brussels Europeans fear a renewed war between Russia and the West amid ongoing peace conference tensions. Reports cite inflamed war talk in Berlin and Brussels with officials fearing a Soviet clash and people planning evasive moves. Optimists hope for stable settlements despite distrust and warnings.
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Ross Munro
Paris
Berlin
Europe
Baltic
Adriatic
Brussels
Brooke Claxton
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