Canadian girl in Britain commands fighter scrambles
Section Officer Nora Da Costa, a Canadian WAAF officer stationed in eastern England, runs the operations room that plots aircraft movements and issues scramble and return instructions. Born in Tacoma and raised in Nanaimo, she joined during the war, rose through ranks, and married Squadron Leader Tony Da Costa in a service wedding at Knight Templars church.
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Nora da Costa
England
Nora Bolton
Tacoma
Washington
Nanaimo
British Columbia
Jubilee Hospital
Victoria
B.C
Heliday
Kent
London
Tony” da Costa
Glasgow
Tony
Knight Templars
Temple Balsall
WAAF
Mrs. DaCosta
Nora DaCosta
Britain
Contoller
RCAF
DaCosta
H. E. Martini
Toronto
Tony” DaCosta
RAF
Giraffe Tongue Length Quipped in St. Thomas Times Journal
A playful line in the St. Thomas Times Journal notes a giraffe tongue around 15 inches long while remarking the animal remains silent. The brief item turns on a quirky factoid about animal anatomy and vocal absence.
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St. Thomas
Endurance Feats of Animals and a Man
The article surveys extraordinary fasting records. It cites a cat that survived 41 days at sea and produced four kittens, a Liverpool dog buried during a blitz lasting 20 days, Galapagos marine iguanas fasting three months, a London Zoo 25 foot python abstaining 18 months, a Madagascar boa in Paris four years and a month, and a Proteus newt surviving five years without food. It notes a human record of 60 days.
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Liverpool
Galapagos Islands
London Zoo
Paris Jardin Des Plantes
Manchester Guardian
Air Mail Initiative Aids Overseas Troops
The Windsor Star notes plans announced by Hon. C. G. Power to rush mail to troops overseas by air. The move aims to improve morale by delivering jetters and parcels promptly, countering the long mail delays that leave soldiers with stale news.
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C. G. Power
Windsor Star
Gandhi Carries False Teeth Sets Them For Meals
Indian leader Gandhi is described as carrying his silver false teeth and only placing them in his mouth when he eats. The anecdote highlights his practical habit and personal discipline during public life.
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Gandhi
Wise Young Man Seeks Facts From London Office
A Canadian High Commission office in London received a call from a youth asking who the Governor General of Canada is and how many provinces exist. He was given the facts and revealed he was simply doing his homework, naming himself Jenkins.
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Grant Macdonald
Canada
Robert Thom
Canadian National Railways
Canadian National
London
the Inquirer
Trip cured him a former Bund leader says
A Buffalo Courier-Express report quotes a former German-American Bund leader saying a trip to Germany cured him because he disapproved of Nazi methods. It suggests other Bund leaders abroad might have stayed to avoid stirring trouble in the United States.
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Bund
Germany
Buffalo Courier-Express
Chimpanzee Noted as Closest to Humans in Form
The sentence states that the chimpanzee is the animal most nearly approaching man in bodily structure and appearance, highlighting ape anatomy as closest to human form.
British Fleet After Crete Faces Ill-Equipped Italian Force
Admiral Sir William James argues the Mediterranean battle line was reduced to three British cruisers after Crete. He warns that a decisive clash with Mussolini’s heavier Italian fleet could have broken British resistance in North Africa and altered global balance. He notes the danger of Axis expansion to the Red Sea and India Ocean. Tuberculosis Tops Canada Deaths in 1912 Rankings Drop to Seventh.
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Crete
Mediterranean
Sir William James
Admiralty
Army and Naval Journal
Mussolini
Gibraltar
Red Sea
North Africa
Russia
Indian Ocean
Japan
James
Plastics Serve Canada in Wartime as Buttons and Nylon Gear
Canadian industry uses plastics to replace metal in military insignia and buttons, saving metal and labor while delivering durable, polished pieces. Nylon plastic joins the war effort in parachutes, ropes, brushes, and fabrics, with postwar uses expanding into stockings, dresses, and various light, tough components.
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Navy
Army
Air Force
Canada
Postwar aviation debate reflects costs and timelines
Postwar plans spark talk of a plane in every garage and rapid helicopter growth, but conservatives warn the private plane will stay luxury like a yacht and helicopters may take years to develop. Airlines likely expand, yet rail freight not replaced soon due to high costs, according to Newsweek.
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Air Lines
Newsweek
Lifelike Rag Doll Pattern 7621 Promises Easy Sewing
Step by step pattern 7621 shows how to sew a lifelike rag doll with chubby cheeks yarn hair and movable limbs. Includes clothes transfers and instructions and costs twenty cents to order from the Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union. Mail may be slow.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue E
Winnipeg
Man
Telling the Sergeant
An infantry recruit endures bullying by a sergeant for days. During rifle practice the recruit misstates a “fine sight” and unveils a quip about a huge boat filled with sergeants, adrift 400 miles from land in a hurricane.
Pilots Honored in Westminster Abbey Plan After War
The 375 P.A.F. pilots including Canadians who died in the Battle of Britain will be enshrined in Westminster Abbey after the war. Churchill praised their sacrifice, saying, Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so few to so many.
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P.A.F
Britain
Churchill
Westminster Abbey
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