The Air Map and the One World Idea
The piece notes air travel shrinking distances and reshaping geography from 1830 stagecoach speeds to jet and rocket travel. It cites a Royal Bank of Canada article explaining air maps lack fixed boundaries and show direct routes, reshaping perceptions of nations and travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Bank of Canada
Mercator
Greenland
North Pole
Reykjavik
Montreal
Moscow
Aden
Winnipeg
Nome
Tokyo
Canada
Iceland
Japan
Toronto
South Africa
Miami
Natal
Brazil
Profound Effect On The Future
The piece notes aviation reshapes travel from Halifax to Vancouver in under twelve hours and Europe in under twenty four hours. It argues long distance air travel links continents, reduces remote distances, and that wartime advances in aircraft design and technique will profoundly affect life in the coming years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halifax
Vancouver
Canada
Europe
Pacific Ocean
Crossword Puzzle Clues Gathered From A Jumbled List
A scrambled crossword item presents mis-typed clues and partial words. Readable entries include references to a tree insect coin and pronouns, with several entries garbled or incomplete.
Price Control And Rationing Information For 1943
Readers are advised that meat tokens and meat coupons are both transferable to the Local Ration Board to free up meat for shipments overseas. Local voluntary organizations will collect these tokens and coupons, with a list available from the board. Ration book 6 is distributed September 9 to 16, with first coupons valid September 19. Late books issued September 30. bring ration book No 5 to obtain and fill green RB 191 card in the current book.
Chapter Dedicates Club to Fallen RC A F Member
A group of Canadian girls naming their B nai B rith chapter in memory of Section Officer Rose Goodman, the first RC A F woman killed on active service. Goodman, from New Glasgow Nova Scotia, enlisted in October 1941 and trained in Toronto before dying in a January 1942 training plane crash near Claresholm Alberta.
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W.D
R.C.A.F
Rose Goodman
B'nai B'rith
Edith Sugarman
Goodman
New Glasgow
N.S
R.C.A F
Toronto
Claresholm
Alta
Unity Symbol In Commonwealth Needs A Royal Flag
The New York Herald Tribune argues the Crown unifies the Commonwealth during empire to world society transition. It notes widespread respect for the Royal Family and questions what could replace it if Britain shifts to a republic. It contrasts Commonwealth flag plurality with the US single flag rallying symbol.
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Commonwealth
Britain
United States
British Commonwealth
New York Herald Tribune
Theatrical producer Interviews Applicant For New Show
A producer tests applicants for a new production asking about dancing singing and acting. The first girl admits she cannot sing or dance and performs poorly in acting but says she came for her looks, prompting a remark that she might as well look around since the looks aren’t here.
Regina Rifles Veteran Eric Luxton Appointed to Rehab Committee
Eric Luxton former member of the Regina Rifles who fought from Caen to the end of hostilities was named executive officer of the Regina Citizens Rehabilitation Committee. He enlisted in 1941, served as captain commanding the anti tank platoon, received a mention in dispatches, and was discharged last month to assume his new duties with the council. He plans to resume university studies after the war and has a young daughter with his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Regina Rifles
Eric Luxton
Caen
Gordon Bigelow
Regina Citizens’ Rehabilitation Committee
Bigelow
Saskatchewan Reconstruction Housing Corporation
Luxton
England
France
Canada
Regina Army Counselling Service
Gasoline Ration Increase Tied to US Loan
London reports that British gasoline ration rises by 50 percent following a $3.75 billion loan from the United States. The new limit allows pleasure cars about 270 miles monthly versus 180 previously, with a larger share reserved for essential industrial users.
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London
Shinwell
House of Commons
United States
Eli Whitney Blake Improves Road Building with Stone Crusher
New Haven inventor Eli Whitney Blake develops a stone crushing device enabling economical highway construction on a large scale, following Eli Whitney's cotton gin invention and highlighting regional innovation in 1858.
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Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney Blake
New Haven
Conn
Special Crops Grow in Canada Beyond Wheat and Oats
Canada relies on tobacco sugar beets hybrid corn soybeans sunflowers rape seed honey and maple products to diversify farm income. Ontario’s beet area includes Essex Kent Elgin Middlesex and Lambton with Chatham and Wallaceburg factories, while Southern Alberta and Manitoba Quebec have expanded beet production since 1940 1944. War labor shortages pushed mechanization both on farm and at factories with new thinning blocking harvesting and unloading machines reducing back breaking beet handling.
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Ontario
Essex
Kent
Elgin
Middlesex
Lambton
Chatham
Wallaceburg
Alberta
Manitoba
Fort Garry
St. Hilaire
Quebec
Firmness of purpose quotes diverse sages
A set of maxims on steadfastness and disciplined will from sources like Chesterfield Confucius Lavater Swartz and Mary Baker Eddy underscores that true firmness blends conviction with knowledge and loyalty The piece ends noting a higher death rate among stable hands and hostlers aged 15 to 64.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesus
Mary Baker Eddy
Chiang Kai-shek Strains U.S. Ties Over Relief Policies
The St Louis Post Dispatch reports UNRRA halted relief to China beyond essential foods amid deteriorating Chiang Kai-shek governance. Chiangs refusal to curb corruption, his rebuffs to constructive criticism, and removal of UNRRA official La Guardia exacerbate tensions with the United States and threaten stability in wartime China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
UNRRA
China
Nanking
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang
United States
LaGuardia
St. Louis Post- Dispatch
Eros Returns to Piccadilly Pedestal in London
London's beloved winged statue Eros is restored to his Piccadilly Circus pedestal after seven years away. Taken from a wartime hiding place in Surrey, the memorial to the Earl of Shaftesbury resumes display as crowds and veterans welcome the familiar figure in the heart of the capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Piccadilly
Eros
Surrey
Piccadilly Circus
Calgary to Build half million Fleischmanns Yeast Plant
Ground broken on a new Calgary facility costing about half a million dollars to produce fresh yeast for Western Canada. The plant on 15th street south of Calgary Brewing will be among the world’s most modern yeast plants with operation slated for early 1947.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calgary
Fleischmann
15Th Street
Calgary Brewing & Malting Company
Canada
William L. Cunliffe
Standard Brands Limited
Fleischmann Laboratories
Cunliffe
Fleischmann Laboratory
Trict
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