United States Seeks Rubber Substitutes From Farm Products
Government chemists press a drive to turn wheat, corn, soybeans, and sweet potatoes into substitutes for rubber, oil, and other war needs. Butylene glycol from grain is piloted in Peoria. butadiene from it shows excellent yields. Soybeans offer rubber-like substitutes and protein for casein, with starch from sweet potatoes aiding textiles and mucilage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
US Department of Agriculture
Acarce
Peoria
Agriculture Department
Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry and Engineering
Bureau of Plant Industry
Pearl Harbor
China
Far East
Department
Walter H. Waggoner
Wall Street Journal
Churchill Plans War Memoir After Victory
Prime Minister Churchill reportedly prepares a personal war memoir to be published after victory. He uses a staff of students to gather facts and figures, then dictates rapidly from notes provided by researchers. Pages are set in type with wide margins for his lucid expositions and many handwritten corrections.
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Churchill
Pineapple Doilies Add Beauty To Home
Crochet pattern notice offers Pattern 6990 for pineapple doilies with diagrams and stitches. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man with name address and pattern number. A colonial belief warned daily potato eaters would die within seven years while transparent steel thin sheets aid instrument manufacture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Paddy Finucane a RAF hero dies in Channel crash
Britain mourns Wing Commander Paddy Finucane of the RAF aged 21 after his Spitfire crashed in the English Channel. He had 32 confirmed German planes destroyed and was leading a low level attack on German targets in France when his engine failed. His last radio message allegedly said This is it chaps. His plane sank with the Shamrock fuselage marking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paddy Pinucane
RAF
Britain
Brendan
Paddy) Finucane
Paddy
English Channel
Luftwaffe
Finucane
Dublin
Paddy Finucane
France
England
R.A.F
Buffalo Courier-Express
Pen nibs and nib makers shift to war needs in Britain
Pen nib production has fallen from 460 varieties to 64 as workers shift to munitions and government orders. Mapping pens for Royal Ordnance Survey are also produced in large quantities. A veteran 85 year old worker, among a group averaging 69, has moved from pen nibs to aircraft parts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Royal Ordnance Survey
Protection Of Britain and Sea Power
A London Evening Standard editorial stresses Britain must retain sea power as the core of national strength. It warns that despite American naval victories in the Pacific, maritime supremacy remains essential to avoid becoming a condemned island among the United Nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
United Nations
Pacific
London Evening Standard
Dive Bombers Lose Edge As New Tactics Emerge
Observers note British reluctance to rely on dive bombers despite German successes and Churchill remarks. The RAF adapts the Curtiss Kitty Hawk into a fighter bomber, while new anti air defenses and rising fighter bombers diminish dive bomber effectiveness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ritish
Winston Churchill
Royal Air Force
Airmen at Manning Depot Favor Nonfiction Reading
Airmen at Toronto's Manning Depot prefer informative books and have borrowed over 17 000 volumes in six months from the city library branch. Among 2 100 available titles they read navigation stamp collecting poetry mathematics art and the dictionary frequently. Readers include Europe and international personalities works and the service is appreciated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto Public Library
Europe
Pretty Thick Hide
Describes the vast diversity of animals across sea streams land and underground numbering in the millions. Notes hippos as among the largest today with a ten foot long stomach and a hide about an inch thick.
Working Old Mines In Cornwall By Royal Canadian Engineers
A detachment of Royal Canadian Engineers led by Lieut. A. O. Ames from Winnipeg reopened ancient Cornish tin mines. Canadian miners, deployed after Malaya’s fall, prospect and work decayed shafts using Canadian mine equipment. Ames previously worked in Canadian gold mines and in Fiji before joining the R C E.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Canadian Engineers
A. O. Ames
Winnipeg
England
Gibraltar
Cornwall
Malaya
Lieut. Ames
Canada
Fiji
The
R.C.E
Stand Severe Test Women Inoculation Exercise Impresses Crowd
Seventeen year old Moyce Hunnibell led a night spotter post at a gun site during a battle in oculation exercise. Women in West Surrey Home Guard mobile ambulance unit joined the drill under live fire, crawling on their stomachs and handling warning calls with calm precision.
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Moyce Hunnibell
Home Guard
West Surrey
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Alice Brooks
Darwin
Galapagos Islands
Protection of
Stuka
Western Desert
America
Toronto
Manning Depot
Ronto
Mt. Revelstoke National Park
Revelstoke
Mt. Revelstoke
Mt. Begbie
Mt. MacPherson
Columbia River
British Columbia
Italy
Naples
Piazza del Municipio
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