Canada’s Foreign Trade Postwar Expansion Prospects
Canada should seek new markets beyond the United States and Great Britain. Latin America offers major growth potential as does trade with the Orient. Minister MacKinnon noted wartime expansion showed Canada’s industrial capability and urged tapping markets in Asia with Japan’s shifting role in the Pacific.
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Canada
MacKinnon
United States
Great Britain
Orient
Japan
Pacific
Trade prospects for Canada with India and Asia
Records show that before 1939 exports to Australia New Zealand China India and Japan were under ten percent of Canada’s total trade. During the war India trade rose and further growth is possible as resources are not competitive. A strong postwar market in China looms, with keen competition but potential gains for Canadian goods. Mr MacKinnon warns failing to find satisfactory markets would have sad consequences. foreign trade developments could shape Canada’s economic future.
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Australia
New Zealand
China
India
Japan
Canada
Train Nurses Must Believe The Present Shortage Across Canada
TORONTO The Canadian Nurses Association called at its convention for immediate steps to train nurse aides to ease the nationwide shortage. The association urged forming representative committees with nursing medical hospital and government members to study duties and redirect tasks and to standardize educational prerequisites via an authoritative body to assess applicants credentials.
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Toronto
Canadian Nurses Association
Canada
Assembly
Soviet Libraries Reach Eighty Thousand Public Branches
The Soviet Union operates 80,000 public libraries in cities and countryside. Moscow alone houses 1,581 libraries including the Lenin Library, the country’s leading library, holding about 10 million books.
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Soviet Union
Moscow
Great Lenin
Navy outlines path from jet pilotless planes to moon trips
The Navy details its guided missile program and pilotsless aircraft to probe interplanetary travel. Satellite vehicles could circle Earth as precursors to spaceflight while weaponized missiles dive on targets from air and sea, including underwater launches against shore sites.
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United States Navy
Navy
Australian Doctor Remembered With New Payneham Memorial Center
In Payneham a Sydney? Adelaide suburb residents plan a 9720 memorial children's centre for Dr FE L Borthwick after 46 years of service. He never charged poor patients, offered free prescriptions, sent steak to the hungry, provided firewood, and cared for an incurable patient for 26 years. He died at 75.
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Payneham
Adelaide
FE. L. Borthwick
Borthwick
Niagara Falls
Price Control And Rationing Information
Q and A on ration books, sugar coupons for canning, ex servicemen priority suit certificates, ration book six coupon dates, barber price ceilings, and how to obtain Consumers News pamphlets from Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices.
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Consumers’ News
Prices and Trade Board
A Motor Trip From Gypsonville To St Catharines in Jeep
Four Manitobans Harold Hunter and wife Algy Freeman and husband and wife travelled 1300 miles in a farm jeep from Gypsonville to St Catharines to attend a funeral. They left Wednesday, arrived Saturday, ran out of gas north of North Bay, and found the trip delightful with many sights along the route.
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Manitoba
Gypsonville
Winnipeg
St. Catharines
Harold Hunter
Algy Freeman
North Bay
Defies Discovery Silver Mine Legend Near Mazinaw Lake
Local legend places a silver mine in a cave near Mazinaw Lake east of Peterborough Ontario. The site is said to be known only to a few Indians, and Meyers wrote of silver formations hanging from the cave ceiling. The mine’s whereabouts remain a mystery today.
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Mazinaw Lake
Peterborough
Ontario
Meyers
Not Modern Discovery The Masai And Malaria Knowledge
The Masai of Central Africa understood malaria as mosquito borne long before modern medicine. Their term for malaria literally means I have been bitten by a mosquito.
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Central Africa
King's Pictures at Burlington House Exhibition Next Winter
The Royal Academy will present the King's most important collection pictures at Burlington House next winter, featuring nearly 500 works from the royal assortment.
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London
Burlington House
Royal Academy
Germans Want to Leave Occupied Reich Emigration Rumor
The United States Army intelligence division reports a widespread desire among millions of Germans to emigrate from the occupied Reich, suggesting broad anti occupation sentiment and potential future population movements.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Occupied
Reich
United States Army
Youth Walks and Runs About Fifteen Miles Daily
A healthy youngster traverses daily activity totaling about 15 miles including walking and running. The routine reflects strong endurance and active lifestyle patterns observed in the subject.
Viscount Montgomery Chooses Conventional Coat of Arms
Field Marshal Montgomery selects a traditional shield for his heraldry with two lions and lilies. The supporters include a crusader badge reference from World War II and a British Tommy in battle dress with a beret. The shield bears a helmet and broken spear, and the motto Gardez Bien appears.
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Montgomery
Imperial General Staff
8Th Army
Smile a While Jokes From Busy Banter On Daily Life
A stitched sequence of humorous exchanges features pickpockets, a porter, a passenger seeking study, and a portraitist. Other quips involve a teacher prompting a sentence, a conscript, and a Kentucky judge greeting Aunt Jemima, delivering light satire on everyday figures.
Blood donation scheme proves valuable to British hospitals
Review shows Britain's blood donation scheme last year sent four thousand bottles of dried plasma to Holland for starvation victims and thousands of bottles of whole blood plasma to the armed services. Transfusions rose in civilian hospitals and surgeries, with England and Wales totaling nearly 394000 donations.
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Britain
Ministry of Health
Holland
England
Wales
General Hospital
Fort William
Origin of Ice Cream Traced to Italy in 1600s
The Kitchener Record notes ice cream likely began in Italy around 1600. Water ices arrived in France by 1550, while ice cream reached Paris by 1775. It appeared in England and Germany about the same period and was advertised in New York in 1786. Ice cream was later served in Washington at a dinner for President Jackson.
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Italy
France
Paris
England
Germany
New York
Washington
Jackson
Gems Of Thoughts And Quotes For Personal Growth
A collection of aphorisms and quotes on merit effort and self improvement. Includes remarks by W H Jones La Rochefoucauld James Lane Allen and Mary Baker Eddy. An odd line notes a psychiatrist predicting widespread insanity by 2139 with a tongue in cheek comment on living conditions.
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Everyon
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