New Perennial Wheat Could Shape Future Western Agriculture
Professor Shebeski outlines perennial bread wheat aims and challenges including disease resistance and winter hardiness. He notes spring-wheat potential, swathing straw for feed, and ongoing after war resumption of Winnipeg trials from 1938 with Chinese variety crossed to agropyron elongatum yielding vigorous, wheat-like, perennial progeny.
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Prof
Shebeski
Russia
N. V. Tzitzin
Omsk
Siberia
University of Kiev
Winnipeg
Canada
Ottawa
Saskatchewan University
Dominion Rust Research Laboratory
W. J. White
Green House
Command by Obedient Sons
A New Yorker piece recounts a woman’s train encounter with three Basque brothers traveling from California to their homeland. They had come to the U S in 1915, worked as sheep raisers, and planned a quick return to repair their mother’s leaky roof in Europe.
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New Yorker
San Francisco
California
Europe
Boys Agree With Psychologists on Delinquency Link
Two child psychologists Dr Maurice Krout and Dr Stanly Dulsky blame mothers for enforcing household chores on sons. They argue feminine tasks teach boys to prove manliness through anti social acts.
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Maurice Krout
Stanly Dulsky
Seagull Steve Joins HMCS St Stephen At Sea
HMCS St Stephen on its first ocean weather mission reports a seagull named Steve joining the crew during a three week sub arctic patrol between Greenland and Labrador. The bird calmly rode out the voyage in a sick bay nest, later perched on the captain, before flying off as the ship prepared for station Baker and a second tour.
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Ottawa
St. Stephen
Halifax
Baker
Greenland
Labrador
St. Stephen’s
Arctic
Steve
Lieut. E. M. Chadwick
Victoria
Lieut
Chadwick
Japanese Content in Their New Homes
Winnipeg report shows 22 000 Japanese relocated across five provinces after wartime evacuation from British Columbia. About 80 percent wish to stay in new areas with only four percent eager to return to coastal zones. editor Kasey Oyama cites greater freedom and less discrimination.
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Winnipeg
British Columbia
Canada
Kasey Oyama
New Canadian
Prohibition on Export of Virginia Horses in 1657
In 1657 Virginia enacted a ban on exporting horses, restricting movement of equines from the colony. The measure aimed to conserve breeding stock and support local agriculture and military readiness amid colonial tensions.
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Virginia
Professor Predicts Earthquakes To Rock Canada And U S
Harvard seismology professor L Don Leet predicts increasing earthquakes in the northeast United States and southeastern Canada. He outlines a vast zone from New England and New York to Nova Scotia in his book Causes of Catastrophe, citing seven quakes since 1904 as evidence and suggesting the epoch’s climax has not yet come.
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New York
United States
Canada
L. Don Leet
Harvard
Leet
New England
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Lake Ontario
St. Lawrence River
Nova Scotia
German sent present to Princess Elizabeth
A Berliner in the American sector sent an antique diamond and turquoise ring as a wedding present to Princess Elizabeth. He asked Sir Brian Robertson to forward the ring and a letter, asking not to reveal his name and expressing gratitude to the British for their role in Germany.
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Elizabeth
Expert Designers See Princess Elizabeth as First Lady in Fashion
London reports that Princess Elizabeth returns to public life this month as a fashion leader who could lift Britain’s dress trade. Designers praise her perfect figure and sense, noting her wardrobe planning process with Norman Hartnell and a two-season approach to clothing.
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Princess Elizabeth
London
Elizabeth
Britain
West End
Norman Hartnell
Hartnell
Junk Playgrounds Slow Traffic Taming Idea Spreads
A London area idea turns waste land into Junk Playgrounds where children build with bricks planks and an old car under supervision without rigid guidance. Originating in Denmark the scheme aims to deter delinquency by constructive play and could expand to Britain's cities with bombed sites reused.
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London
Morden
Denmark
New
Britain
Canada Aids Europe With Generous Postwar Loans
The Columbus Dispatch reports Canada has loaned 1.85 billion dollars to European countries, a scale comparable to 20.35 billion in U S terms and 27.75 billion relative to national income. Britain received 1.256 billion, with additional support to other European nations.
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Columbus
Ohio
United States
Europe
Canada
Columbus, Ohio
Dispatch
Britain
B C Plans Take Shape For Perpetual Yield Timber
The British Columbia Government advances a perpetual yield timber plan with around seventy applications for management licenses from lumbering firms, pulp mills, and small operators. A Port Edward cellulose plant scheme nears completion, covering the Skeena River watershed. Licenses await land-title checks and agricultural exclusions, with other lumber interests weighed before final authorization.
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British Columbia
Port Edward
Skeena River
Canadian Plays Described as World Class by Professor
Edmonton report quotes Emrys Maldwyn Jones of the University of Saskatchewan praising Canadian drama as equal to any. He plans a 1948 anthology of Canadian plays for schools and theatres, including full length and one act works plus radio scripts.
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Edmonton
Emrys Maldwyn Jones
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon
Jones
Saskatchewan Department of Education
Honesty Seen in Florida Blind Stand Fund Losses
The Florida Council for the Blind reports thefts from their 40 supervised stands in Florida run at under one percent of gross sales, illustrating strong public trust and integrity in vendors and volunteers.
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Tallahassee
Florida Council For the Blind
Florida
Medicos Asked To Study Atomic Dangers And Benefits
Cleveland report states the U S Atomic Energy Commission urged the American Medical Association to study public protection from atomic bombs explosions and radioactivity. It calls for exploring health benefits of atomic energy, noting unprecedented medical problems in war and peace.
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Cleveland
United States Atomic Energy Commission
American Medical Association
Women Less Susceptible to Appendicitis Than Men
The report states women show lower susceptibility to appendicitis compared with men, suggesting possible sex-based physiological differences affecting incidence rates.
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U.S
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