National Research Council reviews diverse science work in 1951
The National Research Council reports broad 1951 activities across defence aeronautics radar and research stations with wind tunnel progress and new radar production plans. It notes food and fuel advances including beet molasses curd and oils flavor retention, plus railcar ice bunker improvements. Astrophysicists study Uranus Neptune atmospheres and cosmic ray Earth bombardment.
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Defence
NRC
Council
Uranus
Neptune
Earth
Crochet Set for Girls Pattern 7147
Merce Bross presents a double crochet cap and mitten set with floral accents. Quick and easy to make for ages 4 to 10, pattern 7147 requires twenty five cents to obtain by mail with name address and pattern number.
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Alice Brooks
Quick Canadian Quiz items and answers prompt
This column asks about Canadian law on property and civil rights, succession after Princess Elizabeth, Ottawa’s sales tax revenue estimates, extreme city extents, and Canada’s top export customer with its main export commodity. Answers are provided in another column.
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Canada
Elizabeth
Ottawa
Smile of the Week Husband Found Spent Evenings
Comic exchange shows Mrs Brown revealing she finally learned where her husband spent his evenings after returning home to find him there. Mrs Smith asks how she discovered the secret and the anecdote ends with the husband present.
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Mrs. Brown
Mrs. Smith
Selected Recipes Finish with Brown Sugar and Spiced Butter
A short recipe note lists brown sugar, butter, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Bake at 250 degrees F for 45 minutes or until the topping penetrates.
Oddities from The News: light meets life and law
A San Francisco man reported a pistol hold up where a lighter fused with a .38 stopped a bullet at near contact range. A wedding at a village church in England continues amid a rabbit incident as a dog pursues prey. An Illinois couple cites a dog in a divorce case while a Pasadena man loses a wife over a bacon smell. Burglars steal girdles in Little Rock. Columbus sighted the coast of Venezuela in 1498.
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Joseph Falkowich
San Francisco
Falkowich
Dartmouth
England
Barbara Skinner
William Cleave
Canadian Religious Leaders Endorse National Health Week
Canada’s principal religious denominations officially endorse the eighth National Health Week from February 3 to 9. In a joint letter to the Health League of Canada’s National Health Week Committee, Protestant and Roman Catholic leaders urge clergy and congregations nationwide to promote preventive medicine and holistic well being during the week. Churches will highlight soundness of body mind and spirit on Sunday February 3.
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Canada
Health League of Canada
National League Hockey Notes Highlight Lefties and Right Siders
The NHL shows 65 percent of players shoot left but five of the top twelve scorers enter the year with right sided shots led by Ted Kennedy Gordie Howe Bill Mosienko Johnny Peirson and Ted Sloan. Howe and Richard each have 19 goals as of January 11. Rangers add tall forward Jack Stoddard from Providence Reds in a deal that sends Pat Egan Jean Paul Denis and Zellio Toppazzini to the Reds.
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National Hockey League
Elmer Lach
Maurice Richard
Sid Smith
Don Raleigh
Ted Kennedy
Gordie Howe
Bill Mosienko
Johnny Peirson
Ted Sloan
Ted Lindsay
Sid Abel
Jimmy Kfadden
Montreal
Detroit
Howe
Richard
Rangers
New York Rangers
Jack Stoddard
Providence Reds
Stoddard
American Hockey League
Reds
Pat Egan
Jean Paul Denis
Zellio Toppazzini
New York
Octopus
Two Medicine Hat youths begin world voyage from Saint John
Nelson Matheson and Terry Swanson, both from Medicine Hat, sailed from Saint John aboard the Empress of Canada as they begin a two year around the world journey. Each carries about 600 and speaks only high school French. Their route starts in Britain then proceeds to the Netherlands France Spain Italy South Africa and India before Australia New Zealand and back to Canada. Swanson’s father is a retired CPR locomotive engineer and Swanson worked at a west coast paper mill. Matheson was a railway clerk in Medicine Hat.
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Saint John
N.B
Nelson
Lefty) Matheson
Terry
Rip) Swanson
Medicine Hat
Great Britain
Netherlands
France
Spain
Italy
South Africa
India
Australia
New Zealand
Pacific
Canada
Swanson
C.P.R
Matheson
Handy Household Tips From An Old Manual
The article offers practical household fixes such as adding a few drops of cologne to bath water to deter a canary from picking its feathers, and using a vinegar solution to clean discolored aluminumware. It also suggests polishing with steel wool and whiting, remedies for rug impressions from heavy furniture, dampening a chamois to erase marks, and reinforcing socks and stockings at heels and toes with fine thread.
Mongoloid Origin Proposed for American Indians
Dr R S Mc Neish argues that American Indians derive from Mongoloid Asia based on remains near Peiping China. He cites six nearly complete skeletons dating to the ice age era and notes similarities in cheekbones teeth chin line blood type hair and pottery with North American Indians and Eskimos.
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Winnipeg
R. S. McNeish
Dominion
Asia
Natural History Society of
Manitoba
Peiping
China
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
North America
Alberta municipalities push for unconditional financial aid
Alberta cities and rural municipalities unite to press for unconditional grants as legislature opens in February. Municipal officials want aid detached from mill rate relief, arguing most communities cannot meet the 10 percent assessment increase criterion.
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Edmonton
Alberta
C. E. Gerhart
The
Financial Post
Answers to Quick Quiz Answers
The list provides country and topic pairs with numeric or factual cues. It includes the USA, Canada, provincial law, Prince Rupert and Windsor, Prince Charles, and a note about material supplied by Quick Canadian Facts. A stated fact notes that a stout person floats better in water than a lean person.
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U.S.A
Prince Rupert
B.C
Windsor
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