India Supplies Vital Goods for United Nations War Effort
A wide overview details India as a major, diversified supplier for Allied nations. It notes India’s dominance in tea and jute, plus large outputs of cotton, sugar, tobacco, hides, oils, and minerals. The piece highlights plans to allocate tea under an International Tea Allocation to meet wartime needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
India
Straits’ Settlements
Canada
Dominion
China
United Kingdom
Russia
British Ministry of Food
Ceylon
British East Africa
Japan
Dutch East Indies
Work Slowly Symbol of Polish Passive Resistance
A description of Polish workers under German supervision slowing production as a tactic of resistance. Chalked warnings of large turtles with the phrase Work slowly appear on walls and fences, signaling deliberate pace reductions to hinder the enemy’s efforts.
Let Your Handiwork Grace Your Home Pattern 7365
Pattern 7365 offers a transfer design of six motifs with stitch illustrations and materials list to decorate towels scarves or pillowcases. Send twenty cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 McDermot Avenue for the pattern with name address and pattern number clearly written.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Postscript Sparks Preposition Correction Debate
A memorandum circulated in a government department prompts a corrective note about ending a sentence with a preposition. The anonymous postscript is labeled offensive impertinence, echoed in Strand Magazine.
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Strand
Torpedoes sink when off target to avoid danger
Collier's notes that torpedoes sink to the bottom when they miss and their engines run down automatically or by weight. This prevents hazards to friendly ships and keeps secrets from enemies. Cotton can be spun so fine that one pound of it will make 250 miles.
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Collier's
A Mile Of Keys Follows Britain Scrap Drive
Britain's war scrap drive hits farms and towns as officials seek 500000 tons from 360000 farms and homes. A fleet of trucks and speaker vans collect metal with key finds like a mile long string of old keys in one village. Buy War Savings Certificates.
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Lord Beaverbrook
Britain
United States
Ministry of Works
Merchants urged to advertise to combat war industry shift
Amherstburg editorial warns small businesses face pressure from centralized war plants and crowded cities as supplies tighten. It urges persistent advertising to attract customers and hold business, noting Mercury as hottest, smallest planet with long day and short year.
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London
Berlin
Thirteen-Year-Old Guide Aids Trail Ride in Alberta
Donna Johnson, age 13, served as guide for the 19th annual Trail Ride from Banff to Alberta’s Ghost River region. She managed saddling ten horses each morning and evening, adjusting stirrups and cinches, while assisting riders on the arduous route near Calgary. Her father, Laurie Johnson, led as head guide for the expedition.
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C.P.R
Canadian Rockies
War Services
Donna Johnson
Banff
Miss Johnson
Calgary
Ghost River
Alberta
Laurie Johnson
Canada Can Produce Finest Worsted Cloth From Home-Grown Wool
Wellington Jeffers reports that a suit length of worsted cloth fully manufactured in Canada from Canadian wool has been sent to Hon W L Mackenzie King Cabinet Ministers provincial premiers and Western members. The pamphlet From the Sheen's Back to Yours 100 Per Cent Canadian is cited to justify the claim.
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Wellington Jeffers
Globe & Mail
Toronto
W. L MacKenzie King
Canada
Women M P S Patrol London Night Dance Halls
Auxiliary military police units for the women’s services operate at railways, service clubs, and dance halls in London. W A A F M P S wear blue and red armbands. they advise and assist fellow service members while learning crime investigation and first aid. The piece notes integration with the war effort and postwar potential for Canada’s wool industry.
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Convent Garden Opera House
London
M.P
A.T.S
W.A.A.F
W.A.A.F. M.P
A.T.S. M.P
W.A.A.F. MP
Air Force
W.r.n.ss
W.R.N
Cartwheel pennies return to circulation amid scarcity
The old cartwheel one-cent pieces are back in large numbers as Canadian mint officials note limited supply of modern small coins. H E Ewart, master of the Royal Canadian Mint, says hoarders and country stores feed banks with cartwheels while mint aims to produce 100 million or more this year to ease shortages for candy, taxes, and other penny purchases.
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Leslie Biggin
Canadian Wool Co. Ltd
K. Markon
Wool Combing Corporation of Canada, Ltd
J. W. Downs
Downs
Coulter & Co. (Canada) Ltd
Canada
Alberta
Canadian Wool Company
Toronto
H. E. Ewart
Royal Canadian Mint
Ewart
Two Canadian warships join Royal Navy crossing Atlantic
Fresh from Canada’s east coast shipyards these two small boats sailed to the United Kingdom and began the voyage with a brush with Nazi U boats. They hunted a submarine within two days of departure from their New Brunswick namesakes and, after another attack, emerged with flying colors.
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Royal Navy
Canada
United Kingdom
New Brunswick
Pioneer memorial marks lone valley tree in 1547 entry
Brigham Young and Mormon pioneers entered the Valley of the Great Salt Lake in 1547 to find a single mountain cedar. A monument, now dead and encased in concrete, stands as a memorial by a pioneer association honoring the lone tree.
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Brigham Young
Valley
Great Salt Lake
Poneer Memorial Association
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Alice Brooks
Cauhgt
Amherstburg
Ont
Solar System
Mercury
U.S
St. Paul's Cathedral
Bers
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