RCAF Encrypts Postwar Rise to Fourfold Size and Scope
The Royal Canadian Air Force in 1948 reforms into a streamlined service quadrupling its size since 1939. It comprises Regular Auxiliary and Reserve components with multiple squadrons, new training, and expanded roles in transport, reconnaissance, search and rescue, and photo survey. Central and North West Commands supervise Canada with extensive ground crew training and plan for rapid wartime expansion.
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Canada
RCAF
Rcaf Regular
Rcaf. Auxiliary
Rcaf Reserve
Reginar
North Star
Dakota
Central Air Command
Trenton
Ont
North West Air Command
Edmonton
Alta
Maintenance Command
R.C.A
Air Transport Command
Air Force
Finty
Camp Borden
Aylmer
Clinton
Rockcliffe
Avimer
Montreal
Toronto
London
Hamilton
Winnipeg
Saskatoon
Vancouver
R.C.A.F
R.c.af
ICAO
Reverse Girls Advise What Mother Should Know
Portland mothers learn what daughters want mothers to stop doing at Lincoln High School PTA meeting. Skits show issues such as overbearing greetings to new friends, eavesdropping, favoritism to a younger brother, praising rivals, slang missteps, and public displays of affection.
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Portland
Orc
Lincoln High School Parent Teachers Association
Leap Year Rule From Voyageur Trade Paper
The Voyageur trade paper presents a simple rule to determine leap years. Every year divisible by four is a leap year except century years, which are leap years only if divisible by 400.
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Voyageur
Croydon Boy Seeks Returned Homework From Salvage
A Croydon schoolboy aged 10 asks the salvage department to return his homework sent by mistake for paper salvage. He explains he sent it inadvertently and requests its prompt return.
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Croydon
Croydon Salvage Department
Life of United States president a demanding role
Washington reports on the hard duties of the president, his 7 am to midnight hours, and the privacy pressures from Secret Service and staff. Merriman Smith, in A President Is Many Men, portrays the crowded White House with advisers, formalities, and rare freedoms, noting Roosevelt's rule breaking on fresh food and luxury transport.
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Secret Service
Merriman Smith
United Press
White House
Smith
Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gems of Thought Influence and Character Quotes
A collection of aphorisms on influence character and virtue from W M Taylor Thomas Starr King Mary Baker Eddy Plutarch Goethe and Bulwer. These lines emphasize good company, gentle influence, and living rightly as a path to virtue.
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Thomas Starr King
Mary Baker Eddy
Mosquitoes Are Particular About Their Home Environment
Dr F A Urquhart of the Royal Ontario Museum notes mosquitoes favor specific water types and backyards over ponds for breeding. He cites backyard wrigglers and timing of adult emergence, warns extermination can only reduce numbers, not end pests.
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Toronto
F. A. Urquhart
Royal Ontario Museum
Swansea
Urquhart
Beanie and Hal Heal Rift Over Sea and Farm
Beanie fears the sea while Hal loves the salt air and storms on their Cove farm. A northern gale tests their bond as Beanie crosses to the mainland to confront her fear and returns to Hal vowing love for both the bluejays and the sea.
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Beanie
Hal
Nels Peters
Hal Beanie
Nel
Nels
Wheeler Newspaper Syndicate
Doctors Fight Free Medicine
Australian doctors oppose the government free medicine scheme set to start June 1. The formulary of 600 drugs may force physicians to abandon their own prescribing judgment. The BMA warns doctors may resist and insists on freedom to prescribe as they see fit. Druggists will register and be reimbursed, with a 23 cent fee per prescription. The plan aims to cost about 6.5 million dollars annually.
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Sydney
Australia
J. G. Hunter
New South Wales
British Medical Association
B.M.A
Hunter
Federal Treasury
Federal Pharmaceutical Service Guild
Starching tips and kitchen hacks from old publications
The article offers practical household tricks such as prioritizing starch application, wrapping fine linen in blue paper to prevent yellowing, and using a split spring clothespin as a spoon rest on the pan edge for easy stirring pauses.
Smile of the Week Worms and Whisky Joke
A teacher demonstrates the effects of drink by placing a live worm in water and then in liquor. The worm dies in alcohol, prompting Johnny to quip that whiskey hurts worms, reflecting a classroom joke from the era.
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Johnny
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Royal Canadian Air Force
Experimental and Proving Establishment
Rock- Cliffe
Winter Experimental Establishment
RAAF
Pet
Sir Force Base
Riding Mountain National Park
Man ‘Oba
United States
Washington
The
Tralee
Eire
Violet Nolan
Hollywood
W. M. Taylor
Plutarch
Goethe
Bulwer
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