Canadian Trade and Industry Stats Highlight 1955 Gains
The weekly review notes a net $15 million capital outflow in securities to November from Canada and strong domestic exports driven by metals and forest products. Motor vehicle shipments reached 453,623 units with passenger cars at a record 374,761. housing starts rose about 23 percent. pipeline deliveries rose 20 percent. unemployment claims rose but remained below 1954. Wheat exports and milk production rose while egg output fell slightly.
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Canada
Transsportation
Jlabor
Reading In Bed Marks Curious Library Heist
Harrisburg Public Library director Dan Healey recalls items removed from returned books including a 100 year old marriage license a social security card an unopened letter pads of paper and a photo of a curly haired girl under a Christmas tree Healey is baffled by someone dipping a flashlight into a book and forgetting it.
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Dan Healey
Harrisburg, Pa
Baffies Healey
Eden Opens Washington VIP Season With Eden Visit
Britain's Prime Minister Anthony Eden arrives in Washington to begin the 1956 VIP season with a White House meeting alongside President Eisenhower. Italian President Giovanni Gronchi follows on February 28 for policy talks and social functions.
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Britain
Eden
Washington
Anthony Eden
White House
Eisenhower
Giovanni Gronchi
Italy
State Department
John Simmons
U Nu
Burma
Simmons
Agriculture
Benson
Blair House
Yoshida
Japan
Celal Bayar
Turkey
Mohammed Ali
Pakistan
Mustafa Ben Halim
Libya
Reman
Panama
Queen
Greece
Konrad Adenauer
Germany
Mother Elizabeth
Winston Churchill
Mendes- France
France
Raab
Austria
Tubman
Liberia
Radahakrishnan
India
Kotelawala
Ceylon
Yukmanovich
Yugoslavia
Syngman Rhee
South Korea
Jameson Parker
Department
St. Genevieve de Galarde-Terraube
Dien Bien Phu
Chicago
Funny Bits and Frost on Cornwallis Island
A collection of humorous vignettes and a science note. An airman bails out and meets an upward floating old lady while a grammar lesson morphs into a joke about triangles and shooting. A junk dealer dodges tolls, a driver jokes about a Rolls Royce, and a man recalls a string on his finger. The piece ends noting permanent frost extending deep on Cornwallis Island far north of the Arctic Circle.
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Cornwallis Island
Arctic Circle
Saskatchewan plans polio vaccine program for 1956
Regina reports tentative 1956 polio vaccination plans led by Dr. F B Roth. Final details depend on Connaught Labs vaccine supply and batch testing. If production meets expectations, immunizations will cover 1946 1947 1948 and 1952 1953 1954 birth cohorts with two doses, prioritizing high polio areas.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
F. B. Roth
Roth
Connaught Medical Research Laboratories
Canada
Glowing future for housewives envisioned by designer
Jay Doblin, head of IIT design, told the Minors Tech Women's Club of a home where cooking becomes a hobby. He predicted obsolete large kitchens within 10 years and beds with radio frequency heating that warm the sleeper and clean themselves when stored.
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Jay Doblin
Iinois Institute of Technology
Doblin
Minors
Tech Women’s Club
Dublin
Alfalfa Increases Yield In Saskatchewan Forage Mixes
Ottawa report notes alfalfa boosts forage yield and nutritive value in pasture and hay mixes. At stations in southeastern Saskatchewan tests show grasses alone yield about 0.75 tons per acre while adding two pounds per acre of Ladak alfalfa raises yield to about 2.0 tons. Continuous grazing minimizes bloat. Suitable mixes: eight pounds Brome grass with two pounds Ladak alfalfa or 12 pounds Intermediate Wheat grass with two pounds Ladak alfalfa per acre. Crested wheat grass plus Ladak alfalfa aids early spring pasture.
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Ottawa
RN. McIver
Indian Head Experimental Farm
Canada
Department of Agriculture
Saskatchewan
Fertilizers in corn grain production in Manitoba trials
Ottawa reports on 1955 corn trials at Morden Brandon and Winnipeg showing 80 to 100 pounds of 16-20-0 per acre boosts yield and lowers moisture. 16-20-0 outperforms 11-48-0, side dressing offers no advantage, and four plants per hill at 42 inch spacing increases yield with 10-12 inch intra row spacing.
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Ottawa
Manitoba
Morden
Brandon
Winnipeg
John Giesbrecht
Man
Choice of holes in Swiss cheese
The Book of Knowledge notes holes in Swiss cheese are now an accepted feature with regional preferences for hole sizes. The holes are air bubbles formed during kneading and stirring while the cheese is still plastic and serve no particular purpose.
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Book of Knowledge
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Canadian Statistics Report
Franklin Johnson
CPC
New York
Perle Mesta
Elizabeth
James Haggerty
Ike
Churchill
Bobby
Triborough Bridge
Housewives
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