Campaign to Attract Tourists to Australia Under Way
A major campaign in Australia aims to promote and coordinate the tourist trade led by newspapers across the spectrum and supported by MPs and travel authorities. Experts note Canada earned over 250 million dollars from tourism in 1938 and predict Australia could gain similarly if developed, as traditional European centers falter postwar. Overseas interest grows with air travel easing distances and America and Britain showing keen attention, including an American travel firm advance agent in Australia to explore offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Holdsworth
Ctaff
Australia
Canada
Europe
Americas
Britain
America
Iran to end opium cultivation as crop is harvested
Premier Ahmed Qavan's government declares the opium poppy season finalizes the crop and orders licensed dealers out of business. Large stocks will be exported or kept for medicine as officials confront past lax enforcement and rising addiction while urging farmers to switch to beets and other crops.
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Iran
Ahmed Qavan
Isfanhan
Inspiration in Birds Marvels of Flight Across Realms
A reflective piece celebrates birds and their varied calls from jungle tropics to marshlands. Gandy tropic birds scream the flood cry of the jungle, seagulls shriek the lure of the sea, tawny birds lament the marshes, as smaller songbirds fill meadow and woodland with cheerful tunes.
World sheep flocks suffer heavy wartime losses and slow recovery
Global sheep numbers fall about 12 percent from prewar levels with major losses in the Soviet Union where 27 million sheep and goats were lost. By mid 1946 recovery depends on natural growth and gains from occupied territories, while Europe except the USSR shows 76 percent of prewar stock remaining.
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Agriculture Abroad
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Soviet Union
Asia
Hungary
Europe
South America
Oceania
National Film Board Boosts Canada Profile in Mexico
The NFB expands outreach in Mexico through a photo exhibit in Mexico City opened by Ambassador Hugh Keenley side, sponsored by the Education Ministry and the embassy. Canadian films now reach major Mexican cities via Peliculas Mexicanas and Films Mundiales, distributing Spanish versions like Suffer Little Children and Toronto Symphony monthly.
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Mexico
Hugh Keenleyside
Mexico City
Canada
Mexican Department of Education
National Film Board
Peliculas Mexicanas
NFB
Latin America
The
Film Board
Films Mundiales
Toronto Symphony
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Erna Engelbrecht Mindamin
George Mindamin
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Little Fawn
Erna
London
George
Forestry Corps
France
Belgium
Mindamins
Wekwemikong
Manitoulin Island
Mindamin
Denmark
Rosarida Weicker
St. Catharines
Paul
Russia
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Argentina
Mexi
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