Lawrence of Arabia and speedboat bombing targets
Lawrence of Arabia and Hubert Scott-Paine developed armored unsinkable 40 foot speed boats used as bombing practice targets for Royal Air Force bombers. Three-man crews endure bombs from 1500 feet as as many as 120 planes chase the targets in trials across all weather, refining hitting techniques and defenses.
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North Sea
Aoid
Lawrence of Arabia
Burning Sands
Hubert Scott-Payne
Lawrence
Scott-Paine
Whle Lawrence
Shaw
Royal Air Force
Col
T. E. Lawrence
R.A.F. Post
Indian Northwest
R.A F
Air Ministry
Centurion
Agriculture Comes First in National Prosperity
The piece argues mining destroys land but agriculture restores fertility and supports continued abundance. It contrasts a mining dependent economy with one that prioritizes farming, warning that nations relying solely on mining risk extinction and should convert exhausted sites to agricultural use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calgary Herald
Forgotten Man remembers soldiers who did not return
The article notes a paradox in wartime memory calling the "Forgot ten Man" the soldier who did come back, contrasting official remembrance of those who fell with a term highlighted by the London Daily Express.
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London Daily Ex Press
Nova Scotia Fossil Forest in Cumberland County
A cross section in the Joggins coal district Cumberland County Nova Scotia reveals a fossil forest with coal measures rich in fossil trees and signs of ancient life. Reptile shelters foot marks rain pits and mud cracks document medieval earth history. Sir William Dawson championed fossils from the district now in museums worldwide.
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Joggins
Cumberland County
Nova Scotia
Natural Resources Department
Canadian National Railways
Province of
Foss
William Dawson
McGill University
Montreal
Pictou
University educators back informal grammar judgments
A university English professor endorses phrases like It ain't being done and It is me. Professor C. C. Fries of the University of Michigan argues for split infinitives and verbs matching plural subjects. Other convention attendees of the National Council of Teachers of English approved these views.
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C. C. Fries
University of Michigan
Denomination Question From Evangelist Sparks Rural Speech
A colored farmer avoids a direct answer to an evangelist asking his denomination and says roads to town differ by route but that when he delivers grain the judge asks if his wheat is good. The remark reflects rural speech and regional dialect noted by the Boston Transcript.
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Hill
Calhoun
Boston Transcript
Beating a Historic Yawn by Sir Guy Wilson in Calcutta
Sir Guy Fletwood Wilson, once Finance Minister of the Council of India, recounts how his first budget speech before the Viceroy's Legislative Council on March 29 1909 in Calcutta had members sleep one by one, and he himself fell asleep during his own remarks.
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Duke of Devonshire
Disraeli
Commons
Guy Fletwood Wilson
Council of India
Guy
Viceroy
Legislative Council
Sir Guy
Calcutta
Rockefeller Takes Daily Walks Amid Health Rumors
John D. Rockefeller Sr. reads each new health story with interest and enjoys rumors of family concern. A close friend says the venerable capitalist now takes daily garden walks at Pocantico Hills and no longer receives a daily physician call.
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John D. Rockefeller Sr
Pocantico Hills
Australia ends two-year surplus amid postwar recovery
L. R. Macgregor, Australian trade commissioner in Canada, told the board of trade foreign bureau that Australia was among the first to feel the depression and now the first to overcome it. Tax reductions have begun and building contracts in six capital cities rose 44 percent year over year as state deficits narrow. he praised Canadian Trade Minister H. H. Stevens for aiding a Canada Australia treaty.
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Australia
L. R. Macgregor
Canada
Board of Trade Foreign Bureau
MacGregor
H. H. Stevens
Timber For China Opens New BC Logs Trade
A Fraser Lake broker, M. M. Connelly, receives an order for 1,000,000 feet of poplar logs destined for China to supply match manufacture. The timber deal signals a new industry potential for Prince Rupert district and the British Columbia interior. Also noted are rising motor vehicle sales in Spain.
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Prince Rupert
British Columbia
M. M. Connelly
Fraser Lake
China
Hot Ice and High Pressure Experiments by Bridgman
Harvard professor F W Bridgman shows a lab press that yields water at nearly boiling temperatures under extreme pressure. The device, with a steel block and a leak resistant plug, achieves 200000 to 600000 psi, far exceeding battlefield gun pressures.
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F. W. Bridgman
Harvard Univerity
Prof
Bridgman
Canadian Returnees Spark Thrift and Welcome Home
A London despatch reprinted in the St Catharines Standard notes 28 Salvation Army assisted settlers who returned to Canada after saving enough for Christmas in the home country. They landed in Liverpool aboard the Letitia with funds and letters of credit, deposited savings at 3 percent, and plan to resume their former jobs on return.
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London
England
New York Times
Canada
Emigration Department
Salvation Army
Liverpool
St. Catharins
In Search Of Treasure On Captain Kidd Route
British adventurers sail the route of Captain Kidd seeking a legendary treasure said to lie on Caribbean isles near the Cocos. Captain Stanton and 12 Englishmen depart Trinidad to trace a trail across the Spanish Main aboard the Advance. The Swedish tube railway in Stockholm carries over 25,000 passengers per hour.
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Captain Kidd
Caribbean
Cocos
Crp
Max Stanton
Yaw
Trinidad
Captain Stanton
Sweden
Fit
Stockholm
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United States
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Civilian Conservation Corps
Peekshill
N.Y
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Guy Wilson
Rockefeller
Spain
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