West Farmers Hit Records In Wheat Crops
Canada reports a bumper 1946 wheat harvest of 420.7 million bushels valued around 480.2 million dollars and notes only partial usability for human consumption due to quality. Oat, barley, rye, and flaxseed outputs are also cited with regional totals for Saskatchewan Alberta Manitoba and the prairie yields.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Britain
Dominion
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Manitoba
Prairie
Experts Predict Atomic Energy Within Decade
United Nations economic experts say atomic energy will not displace coal or cause widespread job loss for at least 10 years. They note no immediate industrial revolution, with pilot plants not starting until next year and coal power remaining cheaper in current knowledge.
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Lake Success
N.Y
United Nations
United States
UN Economic and Employment Commission
Isador Lubin
U.S
America
UN Atomic Energy Commission
Lubin
Oak Ridge Laboratories
Aquitania Returns Veterans to Canada in Farewell Voyage
The troopship Aquitania brings back the last major load of troops, including veterans who sailed with the 1st Canadian division in 1939. Gen McNaughton and Maj Gen Foster honor the ship, which carried over 100,000 Canadians, with a flag and bronze plaque before it makes five more trips and is later claimed by breakers.
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Halifax
Canada
A. G. L. McNaughton
Harry Foster
Atlantic Command
Pony Express Fails as Telegraph Ousts Service
Denver dispatch reports the pony express, started in 1860, collapsed after 16 months due to the invention and rapid spread of the overland telegraph. The venture with 500 horses and 200 riders proved financially flop and could not compete.
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Denver
Pony Express
Express
Always Need Horses in Saskatchewan Farms
Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister I C Nollet told the annual Saskatchewan Horse Breeders' Association meeting that horses will always have a job on farms where motor power is not economical. He stressed the enduring role of horse power in certain agricultural settings.
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Saskatoon
I C. Nollet
Saskatchewan Horse Breeders’ Association
Price boosts for minerals in Canada announced by prices board
Ottawa reports substantial increases in production costs and reduced export quotas prompting the prices board to raise ceiling prices for copper, lead, zinc, and antimony. Copper up to 61.625 cents, lead to 10.63 cents, zinc to 10.25 cents per pound. scrap prices rise accordingly. Antimony up to 291 cents per pound from 17 cents, due to subsidy cuts and imports.
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Ottawa
Prices Board
Canada
Perambulating Pigeon Cheekie Girl Stays Grounded
In Vancouver Mrs Louise Hodgson cares for Cheekie Girl a two year old pigeon that never learned to fly. Found as a trembling month old in 1944 the bird rose briefly then fell two feet before landing back in the kitchen where it sleeps in a warm box near the stove.
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Vancouver
Cheekie Girl
Smuts Rules Out Trusteeship Plan for Southwest Africa
Capetown Prime Minister Smuts announced South Africa would not submit the UN trusteeship draft for Southwest Africa. He said the former German territory would stay under the union's laws, continuing administration since the 1920 mandate. Indian opposition in the UN narrowly favored international trusteeship.
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Capetown
Smuts
South Africa
House of Assembly
Southwest Africa
United Nations
League of Nations
UN General Assembly
Union
Gordon explains new shoe prices in Ottawa
Donald Gordon prices board chairman says the 11 and nine percent increases apply only to new stock from manufacturers and not to existing inventory. Retailers will base ceilings on the lower of the manufacturer's price or basic period retail price for boots and shoes received after January 20.
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Ottawa
Donald Gordon
Prices Board
Gordon
Britain Urges Workers to Boost Output for Economic Salvation
The government calls 20 million workers to shoulder a voluntary speedup to raise production as inflation threats, a £328 million export shortfall in 1946, and a manpower shortage loom. Prime Minister Attlee releases a peacetime appeal echoing wartime resolve to reopen parliament.
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London
Britain
Attlee
Winston Churchill
Hitler's Successor to Die in Stuttgart Court
Sigfied Kabus aged 23 was sentenced to death by hanging by a five man military government court in Stuttgart for claiming to be Hitler's successor and pledging to continue Naziism.
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Frankfurt
Sigfied Kabus
Adolf Hitler
Stuttgart
Cold snap in Germany leaves dozens dead and injured
Hamburg reports 32 frost deaths and 124 frostbite hospitalizations from Jan 1 to Jan 17, based on official British figures. The freezing weather underscores harsh winter conditions across the region.
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Hamburg
Germany
Ministers Live in Churches Amid Housing Shortage
In Arlington New Jersey pastors Rev Frank Mierop and Rev William Restrick with families have moved into apartment spaces built within their churches due to a housing shortage. The Mierops reside at Oakwood Avenue Baptist Church and the Restricks at the Church of the Nazarene with their infant daughter.
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Arlington
N.J
Frank Mierop
Oakwood Avenue Baptist Church
William Restrick
Church of the Nazarene
Mountbatten Grandson of Queen Victoria
Lord Louis Mountbatten is identified as the great grandson of Queen Victoria in historical notes. The lineage traces through the British royal family, highlighting Mountbatten's royal connections and official duties.
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Lord Louis Mountbatten
Queen Victoria
Exports Of Dairy Produce Blamed For Shortages
Winnipeg report cites National Dairy Council president Robert C. Smellie warning Canada faces a milk shortage due to large cheese and evaporated milk exports to the United Kingdom. He says producers can’t sustain exports as domestic demand and six ounce butter rations strain consumption. He urges boosting milk production if exports continue.
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Winnipeg
National Dairy Council of Canada
Robert C. Smellie
United Kingdom
Canada
Smellie
Marshall rejects political bids after taking secretary of state post
Gen George C Marshall sworn in as secretary of state and declares he cannot be drafted for any political office. He calls the state post non political and becomes first in line of succession with no vice president. He arrived in Washington after a trip from China with rests in Honolulu and Chicago.
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James F. Byrnes
Centre
U.S
George C. Marshall
Washington
Lord Inverchapel
Henri Bonnet
France
Truman
Marshall
William T. Sherman
Mr. Truman
Fred M. Vinson
Byrnes
Army
Chicago
China
Honolulu
Vampire jet reaches record high in Salisbury flight
A Rolls-Royce powered Vampire fighter piloted by Wing Commander John Baldwin reached 51,200 feet in a routine experimental flight near Salisbury, believed to set a jet altitude record.
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London
Salisbury
John Baldwin
Palladium Mirrors Platinum in Tarnish Resistance
Recent tests show palladium has tarnish resistance equal to platinum, its sister metal. The finding suggests palladium may offer similar durability in applications where corrosion resistance matters.
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Peru
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Pauline Martin
Napoleon Martin
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