Vitamin C research at Toronto hospital sparks funding plea
Toronto Hospital for Sick Children scientists report that evergreen spruce may yield high vitamin C, potentially boosting Canadian health. They note tomatoes and a cherry tomato variety as rich sources, explore new tomato breeds, and warn vitamin C loss from storage, heat, and light. They urge donations to the hospital building fund to support ongoing vitamin research including butter and riboflavin studies.
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Toronto Hospital For
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Toronto
Hospital For Sick Children
Ontario Agricultural College
United States
Ontario
Gratitude Flight From Australia to New Guinea Village
Two Australian airmen grateful for aid from a New Guinea village dropped parcels of supplies and toys over the same village after being guided back to base.
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New Guinea
Canadian pilot saves mission after cockpit shrapnel injury
Sieut Edward J. Waller of Hamilton Ontario corned an enemy radio station near Okinawa. An enemy shell exploded in his cockpit, he sustained severe wounds yet finished his mission. He bandaged his face and piloted the dive bomber 100 miles back to his carrier. He received two air medals and a letter of commendation from Admiral Chester Nimitz.
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Sieut
Edward J. Waller
Hamilton
Ont
Okinawa
Adm
Chester Nimitz
Tall Redwoods Tales From California's Giants
A Santa Fe Magazine piece recalls a tall tale about giant redwood trees in California. The narrator describes a hollow tree spanning a ravine and a near impossible drive through with a trailer as a moving van passes from the opposite end.
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California
Santa Fe Magazine
Definition of civilization and Sicilian street display
The Montreal Star defines civilization as money collected from women who enhance their appearance to send missionaries abroad to teach the savages not to do the same. In Taormina Sicily street butchers display animal heads on a staff to advertise their wares.
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Montreal Star
Taormina
Sicily
Industrial power outweighed manpower in modern war says Financial Post
The Financial Post notes the shift from manpower to industrial capacity as the war’s key determinant. It compares casualty ratios from 1939-45 and 1914-18, arguing modern battles rely on machines and factories rather than trenches. It highlights Canada’s wartime industrial strength and questions postwar disarmament of Germany and Japan.
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Germany
Japan
Financial Post
Canada feeds Europe with new canned meats
Canada develops a new line of canned meat including blood sausage and meat paste produced in Toronto Winnipeg Saskatoon Calgary and Edmonton. The Meat Board reports shipments to UNRRA and Military Relief plus exports of canned sausage to Britain and other nations. Kosher canned beef production starts next November for UNRRA aid to Jewish Europe.
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Winnipeg
Saskatoon
Calgary
Edmonton
Montreal
Vancouver
Meat Board
UNRRA
Canada
Britain
The
Royal Navy
British
Ministry of Food
Europe
Floating airdromes move from fiction to postwar plan
Dr Charles Goodeve assistant admiralty controller reports British tests show floating landing strips in mid ocean work. Platforms up to 2000 feet long use thousands of linked pontoons to stay level in waves. Key challenge remains new alloy steels as designers push toward practical air transport uses.
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Charles Goodeve
Admiralty
Goodeve
Canon BW
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Manitoba University
London University
Nts
Canada to issue twelve sided nickel five cent piece in 1946
Ottawa announced by order in council that a new twelve sided nickel five cent coin will be issued in 1946. The nickel piece will be similar to existing five cent coins and will be in addition to the copper colored nickels of 1942 and the steel coins of 1943.
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Ottawa
Akron G I Hit by Japanese Machine Gun Bullet
PFC Don Langley of Akron Ohio survived a bullet that pierced his forehead and exited near his left ear. The narrow escape left him conscious and unharmed despite the fatal potential of the shot.
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Pfc
Don Langley
Akron
Ohio
Langley
Arctic residents build partly underground houses for winter protection
In the Arctic many residents construct homes partially underground to shield against the severe cold. The practice reflects adaptation to extreme winter temperatures and helps conserve energy.
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Arctic
Left-Twisted Snails Rare Among Gastropods
A minority of snail species are sinistral, or left-handed, twisting their shells opposite to the common right-handed alignment. This rarity highlights biodiversity in gastropod morphology and evolutionary adaptation.
Crochet daily pattern promises easy start for beginners
Reader notice from Household Arts Department Winnipeg lists a beginners crochet pattern titled Daily Go. It describes two daily pieces 18 and 12 inches, pattern 7055 with directions and stitches. Send twenty cents in coins to Winnipeg address Unit 175 McDermot Avenue for the pattern with name and address clearly written.
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Patte
Household Arts
Winnipeg
McDermot Avenue
Winnip
Meatless days could save Canada public eaters pounds
A prices board estimate says meatless Tuesdays and Fridays in public eating places including restaurants and hotels could save about 1,000,000 pounds of meat weekly. Hospitals and certain camps would be excluded from the savings.
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the Prices Board
Canada
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