Hot Meals Provided On Short Notice To Troops
Corporal Raymond Lawrence of Petawawa and Ottawa cooked a hot meal for the troops at Koje four hours after arrival. The regimental cook with the 3rd Medical Regiment RCA brings vast field experience from the last war to prepare three full meals daily on Koje Island.
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Raymond Lawrence
Petawawa
Ottawa
Koje
Lawrence
3Rd Medical Regiment
RCA
Kose Island
Nutritional value of summer salads urged by Health League
Health League of Canada urges higher fruit and vegetable intake, citing 500 pounds yearly as a goal. Miss Margaret E. Smith lists nine tips: raw vegetables hold more vitamins, cooking preserves nutrients, wilted greens lose vitamin C, uncultivated greens are vitamin rich, ready-to-serve cole slaw lacks vitamin C, canned produce often has more water soluble vitamins, properly frozen veggies beat canned, frozen strawberries keep vitamin C better than canned or jam.
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Health League of Canada
Margaret E. Smith
Phe Msc
Gems of Thought Harvest Quotes Amid Classic Sayings
A compilation of short maxims from Christ Jesus Mary Baker Eddy Shakespeare Phoebe Cary and Agesilaus on labor generosity season and harvest. The snippets urge personal learning from loss prudent giving and frugality as paths to virtue and liberty.
New York author ranks Churchill top among 100 people
New York author and historian Donald Robinson selects Winston Churchill as the greatest, most heroic figure now alive in his list of the 100 most important people. He highlights other figures including Einstein and Stalin, with only two women named, Eleanor Roosevelt and Eva Peron.
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Boston
New York
Winston Churchill
Donald Robinson
U.S
Germany
Little, Brown & Co
Churchill
Robinson
Pope Pius XII
Stalin
President Truman
Robert A. Taft
Dwight D. Eiisenhower
Charlie Chaplin
Albert Einstein
Albert Schweitzer
Josef Stalin
Lavrenti P. Beria
Secret Police
Klaus Fuchs
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eva Peron
Dangerous Trees and Forest Spirits Across Cultures
The piece notes that woodmen in German and Austrian forests seek forgiveness before felling, believing trees house spirits. In Dutch Sumatra locals blame authorities for tree cutting, while Mexico hosts the Arbol de la Mala Mujer and a dynamite tree feared for illness and blasts. Japanese lore highlights the ominous kiri tree.
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Dutch Sumatra
Mexico
Interior style advice on living room color clash
A letter from Mrs. K J B asks for curtain rug and slip cover suggestions. The advisor recommends a bright yellow drapery to contrast green upholstery and wallpaper, plain heavy weave drapes, and plain scatter rugs in brown bronze or green to harmonize with the patterned linoleum.
Good Risks Under the Farm Improvement Loans Act
Since 1945 Canadian farmers mainly in the West borrowed 255 million dollars under the Act. Sixty percent of the total had been repaid by end of 1951. Banks provide loans for farm tools trucks livestock buildings repairs and land work and the federal government guarantees up to 10 percent. Losses paid to banks in seven years totaled 26 230 dollars about 0 01 percent of the amount loaned. The piece concludes farmers are good risks and note prosperity hinges on agriculture. King Louis XIV of France sometimes wore platinum shoes.
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Ottawa Evening Citizen
Canada
Tit for tat product targets garden pests with ground absorption
A Winnipeg Free Press excerpt notes a Pittsburgh firm markets a product that travels from soil to leaves to kill aphids mites and other pests. It claims the insect dies from upset stomach and nervous system disruption as a form of rough justice for garden damage.
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Pittsburgh
Winnipeg Free Press
Oil Men Have Own Language
New York reports a 6000 term oil field dictionary compiled by Lalia Phipps Boone titled The Petroleum Dictionary. Entries include Attic hand derrickman Axman bean bird dog and other vivid jargon reflecting life in Texas and Oklahoma oil fields.
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New York
Lalia Phipps Boone
University of Oklahoma Press
Bean
Try and Stop Me by Bennett Cerf
A collection of light anecdotes including a summer stock actress mistaking insect spray for perfume causing endless sneezes and dead mosquitoes. a Cape Cod shopkeeper’s sign barring summer visitors. and a Paris subway incident where a storm trooper berates an old lady who drops from the car, provoking applause and the woman’s quiet boast of bagging a fifth.
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Paris
Portable plastic kidney showcased by Westinghouse in Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric Corp announces a portable plastic kidney that purifies blood and returns it to the body. Dr. T S Danowski reports a cabinet sized clinical model in use at Children's Hospital and a similar unit at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. The device uses a 50 foot sterilized cellophane tubing loop around mesh cylinders in a bath named dialyzate and returns purified blood through the opposite arm. Life saving uses include combatting acute uremic poisoning and potential after abdominal operations with kidney blockage.
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Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric Corp
T. S. Danowski
Children’s Hospital
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Boston
Mass
George W. Jernstedt
Westinghouse Special Products Engineering Department
Danowski
Immigration Chief Denies Bar on Negroes Becoming Canadians
Ottawa reports Immigration Minister Harris states there is no prohibition on Negroes gaining Canadian citizenship. He notes they are admitted in small numbers and that 91 Negroes were granted permanent residence last year, separate from students and visitors.
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Ottawa
Canada
Harris
Toronto Committee On
South Africa
Jokes and myths about women drivers from a 2992 scenario
A satirical piece recounts a truck crash and a policeman’s inquiry with a driver blaming the woman. It cites New York tests claiming women are steadier, slower, and more rule abiders behind the wheel. A dealer anecdote contrasts modern cars with a wife who prefers the old model for dashboard knobs.
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Los Angeles
New York
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