France Gains New Look Through Productivity Push
France shows economic stability and a new look driven by ruthless plant scrapping, wide scale consolidation, and massive rail and dam upgrades. Productivity missions from the United States influenced workers and leaders, boosting exports and retooling industries for Western Europe’s most efficient rail system and burgeoning power networks.
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M. Blanchenay
France
Consoli
Western
Europe
United States
Saskatchewan Air Ambulance Logs 84 Trips in November
The Saskatchewan Government Air Ambulance completed 44 trips in November transporting patients while pilots logged 156 flight hours and 23 015 miles. Regina base handled 33 calls and Saskatoon 51 trips as field conditions varied across the province.
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Saskatchewan Government Air Ambulance
Don Campbell
Campbell
Charles C. Thompson
Regina
Thompson
Saskatchewan Government Airways
Saskatoon
Prince Albert
Thomas Lamb Airways
the Pas
Meadow Lake Air Services
Athabaska Airways Ltd
Trans Air Ltd
Winnipeg
Recipe for a good school and a note on credit trends
A recipe invites readers to create a strong school using limited numbers of students, capable teachers, books, good buses, and fair pay with retirement plans. The text shifts to credit trends, with John G Forrest and J G Taggart discussing consumer credit growth, its role in economic recovery, and farm efficiency including automation and new industrial frontiers highlighted by IBM consultant George L Ridgeway.
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John G. Forrest
The
New York Times
J G. Taggart
Ottawa
Canada
United States
Atomic Energy
George L. Ridgeway
International Business Machines Corporation
Canadian Farm Loan Board Reports 1956 Loans and Growth
The Twenty seventh Annual Report shows 2057 loans totaling 8 309 650 approved for the year ended March 31 1956. Average loan 4040, up from 3835. Outstanding first and second mortgages total 44 958 136, up 4 837 800. Interest collection 87 percent. principal repaid 3 623 518 with over 54 percent received before due. Amendments raising loan limit to 15 000 and term to 30 years not yet in effect. Demand for loans rising in early 1956 with approvals 45 percent higher than prior year.
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Canadian Farm Loan Board
Government of Canada
Eskimos Raise Geese in Ungava Bay Experiment
Eskimos raised 35 Pilgrim breed goslings air-borne from Ottawa to Fort Chimo Quebec for a three week feeding trial. The birds were pasture fattened at False River for ten weeks then returned to Fort Chimo for a three week grain finish before winter tests.
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Arctic
sub-Arctic
Canada
Ottawa
Fort Chimo
Quebec
Ungava Bay
Canada Department of Agriculture
False River
Fort Mimo
USDA Forecast Keeps Meat Prices High Through 1956
The USDA says meat animal prices will stay above 1955 lows for the rest of 1956. Hog prices, though easing with rising marketings, will remain above 1955 fall levels with the widest gap late in the year.
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United States Department of Agriculture
New Zealand Scientist Visits the Soviet Union
The Canadian Foreign Trade Service notes that N. H. Taylor director of New Zealand's Soil Bureau will visit the Soviet Union. The trip is urged as highly significant due to the Soviet soil type classifications from tundra to semi arid steppe forming the basis of modern soil science.
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Canadian Foreign Trade Service
N. H. Taylor
Soil Bureau
Department of Scientific Industrial Research
New Zealand
Soviet Union
Mr. Taylor
Sweeter Song Than Wild Canaries, Tame Singers Praised
The column notes that tame canaries produce sweeter songs than their wild counterparts, valuing domesticated birds for pleasing melodies and domestic cheer.
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Canaries
Weekly Crossword Puzzle Beast of Burden
A crossword puzzle clue list with horizontal and vertical entries including donkey, relatives, treachery, procession, portico, and many others. The grid references words such as sign of and magnesi um related solutions, plus several abbreviations and thematic hints.
Insects Existed for About 250 Million Years, Scientists Say
Scientists state insects have inhabited Earth for roughly 250 million years, based on fossil records and evolutionary studies. The claim highlights long-standing resilience and diversification of insect life through geological eras and mass extinctions.
Mother Needs Flowers Too
During a period of widespread unemployment in Oakland I observed youths in the wholesale district scrounging for salvaged produce and discarded blooms. A young girl carried broken stalks of flowers, explaining simply that her mother also needed flowers, illustrating quiet hardship behind a small, poignant moment.
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Oakland
Fan Fluttered 4 000 Years
The fluttering hand fan has concealed the blushes of shy women for millennia. It traces origins to Japan around 670 A.D and spread to China in the 10th century before reaching Europe in the 16th century.
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Japan
China
Europe
Quick Canadia Quiz on Canadian Land and Life
The quiz asks which province has the smallest area of cultivated land and what share of households have mechanical refrigeration. It also asks when the first canals linking the Great Lakes and Atlantic via the St Lawrence opened, the home ownership rate, and the main purpose of a 10 year census.
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Canada
Great Lakes
Atlantic
St. Lawrence
Answers to Quick Quiz 5
Answers cover why provinces adjust representation in the House of Commons. It lists 1848 as a key date and mentions two thirds and 76 percent as figures. The notes accompany a pocket annual of Canadian facts and claim linen comes from the flax plant.
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House of Comemons
Materia
Quick Canadian Facts
Canada
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