Germans Use Deadly Mine in Italy Report Details New Device
Lieut Alfred De Moulin reports to Lt Gen Lessey McNair that German forces field a new "yossden shoe mine" of plywood and plastic containing TNT capable of severing a man's foot. He also notes camouflaged portable pillboxes hidden in 10 yard visibility with a bellows cooled gun and stove, making defeat by Molotov cocktails difficult amid hills densely lined with them.
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Synthetic Methods for Gasoline and Coal From Plants
American Chemical Society announces a process by Dr E Berl at Carnegie Tech that converts carbohydrates from farm, forest, and sea plants into hydrocarbons in hours. Sugar cane could fuel 32 million cars on 2.1 percent of cropland. method works with sorghum, sweet potatoes, corn stalks, wood, seaweed, and more. The plan envisions a carbohydrate oil empire and aims to end oil scarcity by turning cellulose, sugar, and starch into oil and coal.
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American Chemical Society
E. Berl
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Pittsburg
Berl
United States
Africa
Junker Power Behind German Wars Still Drives Pan Germanism
A Liberty Magazine piece argues the Junker class, allied with industrialists, has always steered Germany toward war and Pan Germanism despite Versailles. It contends 100000 troops bred new officers, Black Reichswehr formed, and Hitler emerged, urging accountability beyond Hitler to the generals and industrial leaders who enabled him.
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Indians in Canada See Growth in Population and Agriculture
The Indian population in Canada is rising by about one percent annually. About 120,000 Indians exist with roughly 60,900 relying on agriculture, 50,000 on hunting, fishing and trapping, and the rest as laborers. Welfare officials report supervised Indians have become skilled farmers on prairie reserves with grain, beef cattle, dairying and poultry common.
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Department of Mines and Resources
Ottawa
Prairie Provinces
Dominion
Calgary Herald
Sign Outside Newark Office Sparks Enquiries
A sign outside the Ministry of Information Emergency Information Service in Newark reads American Information and prompts a steady stream of questions, including one from an American who asked why operators say you're through before calls begin.
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Newark
Ministry of Information Emergency Information Service
American Information
Widely Traveled Valentine Between Hinsdale and Boston
A valentine sent to Mrs John B McMaster of Hinsdale Massachusetts by a Boston friend has circulated for 28 years. It has moved back and forth between the two friends each Valentine’s Day, each time with a new message added.
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Omar Khayyam Seen as Astronomer Mathematician Poet
An old Greek superstition links May marriages to bad luck dating to 2363. The note presents Khayyam as an astronomer and mathematician as well as a poet.
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Omar Khayyam
Canadian Air Service Plan Linked to Empire Parliaments Meet
Liberal MP Arthur Slaght proposed a Canadian air service linking Bermuda Jamaica Balboa and 21 Central and South American nations using four engine planes. He spoke at a Hamilton Bermuda meeting, noting he did not speak for the government. The RAF marked its 26th anniversary noting 161 165 long tons of bombs dropped on Europe since last April 1 through March this year.
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Egg Powder Exports Drive Peak Canadian Egg Purchases
Canada s special products board reports a rising egg production pattern with exports to Britain in view. From late December to March 31 it bought 1 454 carloads of eggs, vs 563 a year earlier, while March purchases reached 575 carloads vs 203 in 1943. Provincial breakdown shows Ontario leading at 683 carloads, Alberta 197, Manitoba 162, British Columbia 101, Quebec 98, Saskatchewan 21, Prince Edward Island 1.
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Special Products Board
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Quebec
Prince Edwards Island
Canadians' Reading Habits Questioned by Guelph Mercury
The Guelph Mercury notes Canadians pride themselves on education and literacy but reports a recent investigation suggesting Canadians may not fully exercise their reading ability. It highlights lower library use as a sign of this gap.
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Guelph Mercury
Largest living snake Reticulated Python Reaches 30 Feet
The reticulated python, native to Burma Indo China and the Malay peninsula, is the largest living snake and exceeds any known prehistoric fossil. It attains lengths of up to 30 feet.
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Burma
Indo-China
Malay Peninsula
Brazil larger than United States by 250000 square miles
A brief item notes Brazil is larger than the United States by about 250 000 square miles and urges readers to buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
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Brazil
United States
RAF mechanics trained in bomber factory repair course
Royal Air Force workers from Bomber Command stations are sent to factories building bombers to learn running repair skills. Thousands are trained and bombers return to operations in about one fifth the time of sending them to repair depots.
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Royal Air Force
Britain
Bomber Command
Rebuilding the City of Stalingrad Vancouver Daily Province
A Moscow report surveys Stalingrad's remaking after the siege. Population has grown from 15 000 to over 49 000, most structures rebuilt or restored, 11 093 houses, 19 hospitals, 72 polyclinics, and two women and children clinics now serve residents. A 200 foot Victory monument and a grand arch honor defenders, while a green belt and Park of Rest and Culture shape the city’s new look.
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Stalingrad
Volga
Vancouver
Food Consumption In Canada War Time Diet Changes
The official wartime report shows milk intake rising sharply since the war began while cheese stays steady as surplus goes to the United Kingdom. Meat totals rise with beef. bacon remains stable due to Britain shipments. Poultry and eggs climb later, potatoes per person reach 2051 pounds in 1943, tomatoes and citrus up but limited by shortages. total annual civilian intake averages 1044 pounds in 1942 and 1044 in 1944, affected by crop failures and rationing.
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Canada
United Kingdom
Britain
Money for Fogs: Canada Hogs Sell High at Convention
Canada in 1943 marketed 3,149,120 hogs for a gross revenue of 178,745,000 or a tile more than 16 dollars for every man woman and child in the Dominion. Harry Hays of Calgary, president of the Canadian Swine Breeders Association, said at the annual convention in Calgary More than 40 delegates from all parts of Canada attended the convention.
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Dominion
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