China Builds New Nation Amid War Strain and Aid
Report notes China expanding industry in remote hinterland with British and U S credits. Native labor drives eight month road completion from Chungking to Rangoon enabling 1000 to 2000 trucks to link sea routes. Amb Johnson says road finished by native labor under Chinese engineers. export bank funds aimed at industry and agriculture development.
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China
Chungking
Rangoon
Burma
Nelson T. Johnson
Johnson
Pangoom
Export-Import Bank
United States
Synthetic coal from farm products eyed as emergency fuel
E Berl of the Carnegie Institute of Technology reports to the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers that soft coal can be synthesized from crop carbon hydrates. The process yields coking coal and may produce gasoline and motor fuel via hydrogen treatment, challenging the view that coal derives from woody lignin.
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American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
E Berl
Carnegia Institute of Technology
Carnegia Laboratories
Beri
Germany
Great Britain
Berl
Training For Jobs Mr Mut ch Stresses Practical Path To Post
Winnipeg member Mr Mutch tells the House a young man who spends years preparing for a responsible post may be unhappy to find such a post scarce. He argues that responsibility comes with on the job experience not formal schooling and that a first job is a stepping stone to better positions. An ambitious youth gains leadership and payroll insight faster on the job. Ottawa Journal.
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Mutch
Winnipeg
Ottawa Journal
Coronation Scot Won’t Visit Canada On U S Tour
British luxury flier known as the Coronation Scot will skip Canada on its American tour due to high operating costs. The train arrived in Baltimore Feb 13 and will exhibit at the New York World’s Fair after touring 38 U S cities.
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Canada
British Railways
New York
Baltimore
United States
Rare loris spotted in Madras and Ceyton habitat
A small rare mammal related to the monkey, the slender loris, lives only in Madras and Ceyton. It has large eyes and deliberate, nearly imperceptible movements as it approaches prey.
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Madras
Ceyton
Farmer Straddles New Border Across His Czech Hungarian Farm
A Czech farmer wakes to a border drawn across his land with Hungary. Although the farmhouse remains in Czecho Slovakia, his fields are now in Hungary requiring him to show a passport to work. Pepper plants appear to have leaves that seem animated.
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Czecho-Slovakia
Hungary
Timber Wolves Menace Along Kootenay Plains This Winter
Indian hunters report large timber wolf packs coming down from the north to the Kootenay plains 200 miles northwest of Calgary. They warn the wolves threaten wildlife and may push young wolves toward towns as trappers say government bounty is needed to encourage hunts.
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Kootenay Plains
Calgary
Rocky Mountain House
Fastest Warship Torpedo Boat Sets 50 MPH Record
The 70 foot streamlined torpedo boat, without mast or funnels, reached 50 mph in trials on Southampton water. Developed at a cost of 380000 dollars, it has a 1000 nautical mile range at 22 knots, powered by three 1000 h.p. Rolls Royce engines. It carries torpedo tubes, guns, smoke screen, and depth charges.
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Southampton Water
St Helena Natives Consider Domestic Work in England Scheme
Natives of St Helena, a British island in the south Atlantic, may work as domestic servants in England under a British government plan to ease economic and social distress. Officials from the Colonial Office and Ministry of Labour are drafting the program as the island, once prominent for flax, declines after Suez Canal changes. An insurance firm in Rome offers a new bonus plan with a gas mask. The Gulf Stream defines its banks by warmer water. In Los Angeles, dinners with more than 25 guests require a picnic permit.
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St. Helena
Atlantic
Napoleon
Colonial Office
Ministry of Labor
England
Rome
Los Angeles
Relic Lift At Foreign Office Draws American Interest
A London Sunday Express note says one of the oldest electric lifts in London, used at the Foreign Office for generations, excites American souvenir hunters who value it as a relic and for its historic ties to signers of the Locarno Pact. The lift now has an absent memory of its stall history and passed to a new attendant after a paternal hand.
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London
London Sunday Express
Foreign Office
Savings Well Guarded Champion Bell Ringer
An advertising aside from the Dominion Bank annual meeting lauds Canadian banking. It highlights Miss Sylvia Bowyer as the new world champion bell ringer, with details on her height weight and 113 peals.
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Sylvia Bowyer
St. Mary-le-Tower
Ipswich
England
Miss Bowyer
George Symond
Society
Sylvia
Eight Living Canada Governors General at Rideau Hall
The Vancouver Province notes Canada has had 15 governors general since confederation. It says 15 distinguished ladies have presided at Government House, with Princess Louise as the fourth. Ten are dead, four survive, and eight Rideau Hall ladies remain living, Princess Louise the oldest.
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Canada
Dominion
Vancouver Province
Government House
Princess Louise
Rideau Hall
Princess Louise Much
Trout in Rocky Mountains Long Before Barriers Formed
Scientists estimate Rocky Mountain waters held trout roughly 6 million years ago before the modern mountain barriers existed, suggesting early fish populations adapted to ancient topography.
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Rocky Mountain
Cannot Be Improved On The True Pumpkin Pie
The Detroit News argues against adulterating pumpkin pie with coconut merengue or mayo like trends in household pages. It likens pumpkin to Keil Grange, insisting the pie’s value lies in its custard base and traditional form.
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Keil Grange
Urbana
Grange
Red
Detroit News
Beaver Construction Disrupts Road in Aberdeen Township
Dan McDonald reports beavers built a dam below a road in Aberdeen Township forty miles east of the city. Water rose over the road as they then began a wooden culvert house at the road centre, undeterred by daytime traffic.
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Aberdeen Township
Dan McDonald
Loo Star
Invention Claims Cheaper De-Inked Newsprint
Dr W F Hochsetter reportedly developed a process to de ink old newspapers and recycle them into fresh newsprint. The Pittsburg Post-Gazette printed an edition on the de inked stock, using old newspapers magazines posters and carbon paper in the mix. The method allegedly cuts newsprint costs by about one third through a chemical bleaching process.
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W. F. Hochsetter
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
Sap From Bottle Trees Quenches Drought Thirst in Australia
In a time of drought Australian natives rely on sap gathered from bottle trees to relieve thirst. The practice provides a rural source of moisture when conventional water is scarce.
New Parking Place in Cologne Cares for Children and Dogs
A new car parking area in central Cologne provides on site care for children and dogs. The facility offers supervision and safety services while owners attend to errands in the city center.
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Cologne
Germany
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