Churchill a towering force in Britain's history
Harold J. Laski lauds Winston Churchill as a defining personality whose energy, courage, and imagination drive Britain through crisis. The piece praises his leadership, loyalty, and singular influence, while noting flaws, yet argues his virtues outshine defects in uniting the nation for freedom. A shift to cork tree cultivation in the US and cork use in wartime industries follows.
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Churchill
Himelf
Britain
Chatham
Harold J. Laski
The
London New Statesman
Nation
Portrait of an Airman at Royal Academy Exhibit
A posthumous portrait of an unnamed airman painted by Frank O Salisbury draws wide attention at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters exhibition in the Royal Academy. Painted from a snapshot, the work carries a letter inscription about sacrifice and the vast universe. The portrait will hang in the Royal Air Force mess where the airman was attached until the war ends.
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Frank O. Salisbury
Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Royal Academy
Royal Air Force
Rattles nnotage age of rattlesnakes unreliable
Fish and Wildlife Service herpetologists say age cannot be determined by tail rattles unless the snake still has the first or true bottom. The true bottom is often knocked off when the snake strikes against hard objects.
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Hervetologists
United States Fish and Wildlife Service
Factories For Explosives In Southern Hemisphere
The Federal Government in Australia is establishing a vast network of explosives factories. About £16,000,000 has been spent on building new plants and expanding existing ones. The Commonwealth Explosives Factory in Melbourne, once a 50‑worker plant, now employs over 5,000.
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Australia
Commonwealth Explosives
Melbourne
Victoria
Danger in Human Bites Outweigh Animal Bites
Dr. Frederick M. Boyce of New Orleans told the Southern Medical Association that human bites pose greater danger due to varied oral bacteria and late treatment. He cited 24 amputations among 90 human bite cases over 11 years, noting knuckle bites on the hand have higher infection risk than fleshier areas.
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Frederick M. Boyce
New Orleans
Southern Medical Association
Collars and Cuffs Through Renaissance Underwear History
The Cooper Union Museum researchers trace collars and cuffs to undergarments. They note early wearers showed edges at necklines and cuffs, leading to separated collars and cuffs. The first collars resembled Queen Elizabeth's and later wide turned down collars spread over the shoulders.
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Cooper Union Museum For the Arts of Decoration
Retribution and Hard Lessons For Germany After War
The piece argues Germany must be taught a hard lesson, with punishment rather than appeasement, to make the German people understand that war does not pay. It notes the Maginot Line’s approximate cost at 150 million dollars and mentions Washington becoming the U.S. capital.
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Germany
Sheffield
Britain builds ships fast welding beats riveting in wartime
Sixteen year old Kenneth Horsley of Coventry earns the British Empire Medal for bravery during an air raid. He rescued relatives and others from bombed homes as bombs exploded nearby, showing nerves fit for an RAF pilot. Shipyards speed up production by welding and using ferro concrete for small craft, cutting build time to five and a half months.
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Britain
Coventry
Great Britain
Admiralty
British Industries
Kenneth Horsley
Kenneth
Government to use tinted ration books for gasoline classes
The government plans tinted gasoline ration books and coupons next April to distinguish user classes such as doctors and commercial travelers from pleasure drivers, easing administration of fuel amid rationing.
No Two Solar Eclipses Occur Closer Than 177 Days
A scientific note states that solar eclipses do not happen within 177 days of each other, indicating a fixed minimum interval between solar eclipses due to orbital mechanics. This constraint helps eclipse forecasting and historical event planning.
North American Continent Seen as One Production Area
The piece describes wartime cooperation between Canada and the United States, noting North America north of Mexico as a single production region. It highlights the Hyde Park agreement of April 20 1941, joint war boards, and the building of air fields from Edmonton to Alaska to speed aircraft to Alaska and the Aleutians.
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Canada
United States
North American
Mexico
Washington
Ottawa
Hyde Park
Mackenzie King
Roosevelt
Permanent
Joint Board of Defence
Edmonton
Alaska
Aleutian
Ogdensburg
N.Y
Barley’s Wide Use In Feed And Industry
Barley serves as hog feed like oats and is used extensively in farming for beef cattle fattening and lamb growth. It also supports many industrial products from barley flour to malt and malt flavors. In 1940-41 Western growers supplied 21.5 million bushels.
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Quarterly Review
Carrot Symbol Replaces Orange in Dutch Anti Nazi Greeting
Reports from London say Dutch people now greet with Worteltje Boven meaning Hurrah for Carrots as they switch from Oranje Boven after Gestapo arrests targeted the orange reference. Nazi papers attack the shift as a loss of common sense.
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Royal House of Orange
Wilhelmina
Gestapo
Holland
Shortages Hit France as Soap Leather and Stockings Vanish
A Cairo despatch notes wartime shortages in France with soap and leather scarce and stores refusing service without basic goods. It reports women going bare legged to save silk stockings and even wooden shoes as commodities vanish. Germans force Italian surrenders in frontier outposts to stiffen Axis resolve.
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France
Cairo
Foreign military attaches estimate Nazi air force totals
Berlin reports from foreign military attaches put the German air force at about 200000 men with roughly one fifth paratroops. The remaining 160000 could be deployed by 200 Junkers 52 transports capable of carrying 25 men and towing two gliders, yielding an attacking force of about 9060 men.
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Berlin
Junkers
Made Them Friends Men
Two Norwegians quarreled in a Bergen market and after a German soldier intervened, they attacked him together. They later fled as reinforcements arrived, and since that day they have become the best of friends.
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Norway
Bergen
California cows develop an LQ for cow sense note
Agricultural expert W H Alison of the University of California says cows show a practical intelligence label LQ that could replace horse sense. He notes dairy cows respond quickly to milking if named or numbered. A food chemistry writer adds medieval England knew only beets leeks and lentils.
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W. H. Alison
University of California
California
England
Northern Saskatchewan Rabbits Turn From Pests to Profits
In Loon Lake and Meadow Lake areas rabbits, once a farmer’s nuisance, now fuel a booming income as pelts flow to markets. Meadow Lake trucks haul 70,000 rabbit skins per load packed in large paper racks for wool shipments. A farmer at Loon Lake reports 365 rabbits captured in a week earning 27.89 dollars.
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Saskatchewan
Loon Lake
Meadow Lake
Big Business Grows in Egg Drying Under Lend-Lease
The recent months have seen egg drying become a major industry in the United States as improved methods increase drying yields and handling efficiency. Vast purchases under the Lend-Lease program drive growing interest in this sector across international routes.
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United States
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
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