Postwar world notes include sales, timber orders and plan
Christie’s London auctions topped £1,000,900 in 1946. Canada placed $10.5 million in timber orders for 1947. MacArthur approves Japan's plan to borrow 1.318 billion yen to aid cotton revival. Truman dodges 1948 nomination talk. Kuyurgaz coal seam deep. Australia reports fewer RAF accidents. John Doherty Kearney named Canada's first High Commissioner to India.
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Gen. MacArthur
John Doherty Kearney
Norway
Denmark
Canada
India
St. Laurent
British Party Plans New Everest Expedition Aims for Success
A British party plans a well equipped Everest expedition with an Australian RAF officer and a UK RAMC doctor coordinating. They express confidence, citing wartime cliff scaling methods and support from Air Rescue and parachute units. Self heating food climbing suits and lighter oxygen gear are highlighted as advantages over prior attempts.
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Mount Everest
R.A F
United Kingdom
R.A.M.C
Holland Rebuilds After War With Strong Growth In Output
Government statistics show Holland returning to peacetime after World War II with industrial output at 60 to 70 percent of 1938 levels. Reclaimed polders are productive, housing programs are near completion, rail bridges and canals restored, and some exports exceed prewar rates though brickyards and coal output lag. Living costs up 180 percent, wages up 160 percent, agriculture rising to 240 percent.
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The
Hague
Holland
Wieringermeer
Walcheren
Amsterdam
Scandinavia
Cancer Test Uses Blood Drop, Izvestia Reports
Izvestia states cancer detection in Moscow via a single blood drop test. Developed by A. P. Pototskaya, the method uses ultra weak radiation. In tests on 400 patients with various infections, results were positive though not claimed universal efficacy.
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Moscow
Izvestia
A. P. Pototskaya
Giant tree frog TM Reaches Size Up to Five Inches
Report notes TM grows to three to five inches, longer than typical tree frogs at about two inches. The observation highlights notable size variance among arboreal species.
Canadian Builders See 25 Percent Boost in Plumbing Output
A survey of manufacturers shows 1947 will bring easier access to plumbing and heating gear for Canadian builders. An official says overall output could rise about 25 percent across valves fittings pipe pumps fixtures boilers and radiation supplies with boilers furnaces and stoves and fans also set for notable gains especially in the year's latter half as production peaks.
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Ottawa
World Calendar Aims to Fix Yuletide Weekends
The World Calendar Association of New York proposes a solar year based system where each year begins on Sunday January 1 and Christmas lands on Monday. The plan adds Year-End Day for world unity and Leap Year every four years. Fourteen nations back the idea. U S and Canada and the United Nations are sought.
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World Calendar Association of New York
Association
United States
Canada
United Nations
Walking the Great Universal Exercise
A Toronto pamphlet urges walking as medicine for all ages. A daily two to three mile walk strengthens disease resistance and improves mood, posture, and foot health. It advises straight toe alignment, forward weight shift, and proper footwear. Practitioners near work should walk both ways. farther residents should use transport to reach the two to three mile radius.
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Toronto Central
Bulgarian musician reunites with father through printed address
A Bulgarian musician living abroad could not reach his father in Bulgaria yet. He sent a message instructing the father to copy and print the address at the top of the letter. The father complied, and a letter arrived at the Rochester address: Boris Maslennikov Ford Hotel 400 Rooms All Fireproof Rochester New York.
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Bulgaria
Boris Maslennikov
Ford
Rochester
New York
Max Bentley Named Among Top Ten Athletes
Chicago Black Hawks star Max Bentley named one of the 10 outstanding athletes of the year by the Los Angeles Times. Delisle Saskatchewan native honored in absentia at a banquet in Los Angeles for the fourth consecutive year awards program.
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Los Angeles
Max Bentley
Chicago Black Hawks
United States
the Delisle
Sask
Los Angeles Times
Stone work as humanity’s oldest craft noted
Scientists consider working with stone the oldest known human craft, tracing its origins to early tool making and construction across ancient societies. The statement highlights stone as foundational in technological and cultural development.
Predicted Population Shifts Foretold by Geography Teachers
Columbus Ohio. The United States may see a population decrease of 40 million in the next century while oriental peoples will multiply twofold, says O. E. Baker of the University of Maryland. He warned Russia and Europe could rise to 500 million and 1 billion respectively under one government.
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Columbus
Ohio
United States
National Council of Geography Teachers
U.S
O. E. Baker
University of Maryland
Orient
Russia
Baker
Foot and mouth outbreak hits British cattle towns
Nearly 800 cattle have been slaughtered in Dorset and Somersetshire as foot and mouth disease spread with unusual virulence. Incubation is about 48 hours and the origin farm has been located. Over 100 cattle were sold at a tested dairy cattle auction spreading infections, with one owner losing 303 beasts.
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London
Dorset
Somersetshire
England
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NEA Service, Inc
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Vest
Thomas Meek
Albany, Georgia
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Doylestown
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Joan Reid
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