Canada Plans Post War Army For Security And Readiness
A senior western officer outlines Canada’s plan to maintain Defence Forces in peace, with a small Active Force and a large Reserve. The strategy calls for a brigade level main striking force, 25 000 active personnel, 180 000 part time reserves, and continued modernization of equipment and training. Prairie Command covers Manitoba Saskatchewan and parts of Ontario with headquarters in Winnipeg.
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FTE
Canada
Prairie Command
Air Force
NPAM
Dieppe
British Empire
United Kingdom
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Winnipeg
Regina
Enduring Beautycutwork Pattern T2778 For Plain Embroidery
Enduring Beauty patterns promote lasting cutwork in plain embroidery. Pattern T2778 includes a transfer for 14 motifs ranging 2 by 2 inches to 4 by 15 inches. To obtain this pattern send twenty cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union Manitoba with name address and pattern number.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Man
Electrify Paris to Lyons Railroad Line Begins
Work has started on electrifying 320 miles of railroad from Paris to Lyons at a cost of 25.2 million dollars.
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Paris
Lyons
Panther the cat rides a British engine to Africa
A black cat named Panther survived six weeks aboard a new aircraft engine shipped from Britain to a South African training school. The cat lived on grease and tarred packing materials, becoming the crew's unofficial mascot during the voyage.
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Africa
England
Britain
Technician crafts magnet to remove swallowed nail
J. E. Openshaw, RNZAF radio technician in Auckland, spent two days making a compact electro magnet to pass down his son's throat. Doctors used the device to extract a large nail from the boy's stomach in a race against time to save his life.
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Auckland
N.Z
J. E. Openshaw
Royal New Zealand Air Force
Old Dutch Bibles Sought by Churches After Destruction
Dusty shelves in South Africa hold old Dutch Bibles sought by churches in Holland to replace hundreds of thousands destroyed by the Nazis. The volumes, superseded by a modern Afrikaans Bible, are in demand again.
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South Africa
Holland
Fabled Lost Lemon Mine Haunts Alberta Frontier Lore
Alberta folklore recounts the Lost Lemon Mine tale from Tobacco Plains to Crow’s Nest Lake. Prospectors Black jack and Lemon found rich river diggings and a gold ledge but quarrels, murder, and native secrecy thwarted all rediscovery attempts over decades.
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D. E. Riley
High River
Alberta
Alberta Folklore Quarterly
McLeod
Lemon
Tobacco Plains
Montana
North Saskatchewan
Blackjack
Caribou
British Columbia
Lafayette French
Saskatchewan
la Nouse
Fort Benton
William
Daniel Bendon
Stoney
Morley
Bearpaw
John McDougall
McDougall
Texas
Crow's Nest Lake
Fort Kipp
French
Emerson
Bar U Ranch
Crow’s Nest Lake
Mist Mountain
Highwood River
Eldorado
Jet engine speedboat planned to smash world record
Sir Malcolm Campbell announced he will use a jet engine on his speedboat next autumn to beat his 141 mph record set in August 1939. He said no boat has used a jet engine before and that exhaustive tests in a tank and wind tunnel are underway as aerodynamics are crucial to reaching higher speeds.
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London
Malcolm Campbell
Malcolm
One Hook Two Fist Fish Tale From Tacoma
In Tacoma Washington Bob Fitch recalls a quirky fishing tale. He hooked one catfish in shallow water and when he jerked the line the second fish surfaced caught in the first fish’s mouth.
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Tacoma
Wash
Bob Fitch
Philadelphia to rejoin Hockey Majors in nine-team league
At the annual meeting in New York Maurice Podoloff of New Haven was reelected president. Philadelphia will return to the American Hockey League next season, expanding the circuit to nine teams.
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Philadelphia
New York
Maurice Podoloff
New Haven
Conn
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Virginia Hopkins
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Boy
Buffalo
N.Y
James E. Clancy
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