Britain Seeks to Preserve Historic Bombed Buildings
The Ministry of Works forms a panel of architects to advise local authorities on salvaging and restoring buildings of historic or artistic value damaged by German bombing. A rapid survey will record preserved structures before demolition, aiming for memorials where full restoration is impossible.
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Royal Institute of British Architects
England
Wales
Institute
Judd
Minister of Supply
Harold G. Judd
Manchester Guardian
Eskimos to Receive Identity Discs From Census Officials
Canadian government plans distribute identification discs with the coat of arms and a personal number to Eskimos and Indians as part of the 16 year census. Officials say discs will be issued during the annual Nasopie visit or afterward by census workers traveling by boat dog sled and plane across the Arctic. Enumerators have six months to count a nomadic population estimated over 7000.
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Canada
Nascopie
Arctic
Good Pest Destroyer Gopher Noted on Midwest Farm Worth $40 Yearly
A full grown gopher on a Midwest farm is valued at about 40 dollars annually as a pest destroyer. Farmers rely on gophers as a natural control due to their role in the ecosystem and the potential damage pests cause.
Bombing Plymouth Scene Shows Man With Dogs
A man walks two dogs through the Plymouth bombardment in a moment of unusual calm amid air raid events. The vivid image captures civilian life continuing despite shelling and danger.
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England
Plymouth
Lake of the Woods Claims southernmost U.S. point
The note states that the southernmost point in the United States is Lake of the Woods, highlighting a geographic distinction for readers.
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United States
Lake of the Woods
Gasoline From Coal via Hydrogenation Proves Promising
United States federal bureau of mines reports coal reserves can supply oil needs for about 3000 years using a new hydrogenation process. Tests show yields from bituminous and lignite coals vary. 78 to 168 gallons per ton, with higher costs than crude petroleum.
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United States
America
Federal Bureau of Mines
Bureau of Mines
Bureau
Europe
Germany
Pittsburgh
England
Black Creek
Alabama
Sunnyside
Utah
North Dakota
Easier To Spell The English Warden And Bomb
The warden calls a police constable to view an unexploded bomb. The constable quizzes the warden about a road name and names Nebuchadnezzar Terrace. He then moves the bomb toward the High Street, staggering as he carries it.
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Nebuchadnezzar Terrace
High Street
Moscow mails record totals for last year
Moscow reports year end totals showing 146 million letters and 17.4 million telegrams received, and 156 million missives and 15 million wire messages sent. The figures reflect postal and telegraph activity across the Soviet Union.
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Moscow
Embroidered flower motif crochet pattern 6893 notice
Dreamy housewares promotion offers a crochet transfer pattern with flower motifs and edging directions. Pattern 6893 includes motif sizes 74 by 194 inches and 7 by 1244 inches, stitch illustrations, and materials. Send 20 cents to Household Arts, Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave E, Winnipeg. No Alice Brooks pattern book exists.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Law Proved Gentle Over Arrest Near Cochrane Ontario
Overseer L A Dent sought an arrest warrant for Jimmy Rock Indian trapper on illegal fur trade charges. He traveled 100 miles to James Bay, found Rock’s family ill and starving, and instead arranged medical aid and dispatched food and medicine. Rock claimed unfair treatment by fur dealers and faced charges for illegal pelts sale.
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Cochrane
Ont
Jimmy Rock
L. A. Dent
Provincial Game and Fisheries Department
James Bay
Rock
Ontario
Battle of Cape Matapan named for Ionian Sea victory
After consulting Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham the Admiralty approves naming the Ionian Sea victory over the Italian fleet the Battle of Cape Matapan. The cape marks the Peloponnesus southern extremity where several Italian ships were engaged and sunk.
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Cape Matapan
Andrew Cunningham
Admiralty
Ionian Sea
Peloponnesus
Blind Doctor Calls For War Service Place For Blind Workers
J J Macdonald superintendent of Quebec division of the National Institute for the Blind urges giving handicapped people a chance to serve in the war effort. He cites blind workers on a Montreal steel line and furniture repair for a local hotel as proof of capability and asks for inclusion in national service.
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J. J. Macdonald
Quebec
National Institute For the Blind
Doctor Macdonald
Montreal
Seabird Protection Urged as Norway Faces Food Strain
The Norwegian Society for Protection of Annuals appeals to Oslo to protect sea birds amid harsh food shortages.Hungry Norwegians hunt seabirds so extensively that seagulls and other birds may disappear.
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Norway
Norwegian Society For Protection of
Oslo
Patrons Use Coins to Silence Post Office Typewriters
Patrons at Berlin's post office insert foreign coins into the typewriters' slots, running ten minutes of typing time and deactivating the pens previously used at the counter. The incident highlights nuisance disruptions at a busy postal facility.
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Berlin
Canadians at War Effort Vastly Expands Across Sectors
Prime Minister Mackenzie King outlined Canada’s wartime contributions over 18 months. Canada has about a quarter of a million active service personnel plus 175,000 in reserve and over 180 navy ships. Britain’s deficit with Canada is large, with Canada providing funds, securities, and steel to sustain Allied efforts. Canada’s 1941 42 war expenditure likened to a US single year outlay of 35 billion dollars with 250 000 Canadians on active service equating to over 2 750 000 US troops.
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Mackenzie King
House of Commons
Canada
Canadian Army Corps
Britain
North Atlantic
Iceland
Newfoundland
West Indies
Gibraltar
Great Britain
United Kingdom
London
United States
Clippies of London Buses Offer Free Battlefield Tour
Ellen Sayers recalls a Clippie on a Sight Seeing bus who jokes that the ride to New Oxford Street includes a battlefield tour. An anxious passenger boards as anti air bursts light the sky and the clipper quips that the show is free while the bus heads to the end of the line.
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London
Ellen Sayers
New Oxford Street
Clippie
Miss Sayers
Ypres
Marne
Bronze portrait bust of John Buchan displayed in New York
Suzanne Silvercrays, a New York sculptor and lecturer, exhibits a bronze bust of the late John Buchan in the office of Gordon Cole, Canadian trade commissioner, Rockefeller Center. The life study, owned by Lady Tweedsmuir, presents Buchan in scholastic robes, differing from Misa Silvercrays’ governor-general portrait. The sculpture stays in New York until safe to ship to England.
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John Buchan
Suzanne Silvercrays
New York
Gordon Cole
Rockefeller Centre
Streamlining Effects at Different Speeds
The statement notes that a design optimized for 20 mph loses its perfection at 60 mph, highlighting that aerodynamic efficiency varies with speed and cannot be assumed constant across operating ranges.
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