Perpetual Motion Dreams Drive Global Patent Pursuits
In Ottawa a long history notes many inventors seek perpetual motion patents despite physics ruling out energy from nothing. The Canadian Patent and Copyright Office requires a working model, with applicants worldwide including Japan, Europe, and Canada. The piece cites 1945 patent totals and playful failed ideas from Rube Goldberg and anti torpedo devices, rail stopping schemes, and non refillable bottles.
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Cameron Rougine
Ottawa Citizen
Canadian Patent and Copyright Office
Ottawa
Patent Office
Japan
Europe
Canada
Prairie Provinces
Driving Record of Cpl Eunice Marshall Shows One Minor Accident
Cpl Eunice Chuck Marshall of Borden has a driving record with only one minor accident across about 50 000 miles. She discharged from the Canadian Women's Army Corps at Regina after training in Vermilion and Red Deer Alberta where she took a six week drivers course.
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Cpl
Eunice
Chuck) Marshall
Borden
Canadian Women's Army Corps
Regina
Marshall
Vermilion
Alta
Chuck
Army Service Corps Training Centre
Red Deer
Canadien Women's Army Corps
Chris Marshall
Kitty Marshall
Ottawa
Wire Across Main Street Paralyzes Western Town
In a small Western town a wire sagged across the main street stopping traffic. Fear held residents back as they considered the line might be live. The incident drew the attention of the local editor.
Vikings on North America claimed by famed botanist
Dr. Nicholas Polunin arriving as visiting professor at McGill to lead Arctic Institute research in the Canadian Eastern Arctic and at the mouth of the St Lawrence as he argues plant evidence will prove Vikings not only explored but established colonies in North America before Columbus. He cites his Arctic expeditions from Oxford to Hudson Strait and the Nascopie voyage. Montreal Star. Electronic tubes weigh seven hundredths of an ounce now produced in quantity.
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America
Christopher Columbus
St. Lawrence River
Nicholas Polunin
Oxford University
McGill University
Canadian
Arctic
Arctic Institute of North America
Greenland
Atlantic
Polunin
St. Lawrence
Oxford
Lapland
White Sea
Hudson Strait
S.S. Nascopie
Canada Department of Mines and Resources
Montreal Star
Memorial service attended by 3000 at Canadian graves in Belgium
In Adégem Belgium a crowd from northwest Belgium gathered at the Canadian army cemetery to honor 800 Canadian soldiers of the 3rd 4th divisions and the 2nd armored brigade who fought along the Leopold canal in 1944. Justice Turgeon Canadian ambassador led the ceremony with Ghent welfare officials present. A guard of honor from the London victory parade unit stood beside the graves as Belgian girls laid wreaths and earth was sent to next of kin.
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Adegem
Belgium
Ghent
2Nd Armored
Leopold Canal
Dominion
W. F. A. Turgeon
Welfare Committee of
London
Adégem
Oostende
Ostend
English King George Becomes First Monarch in Who's Who in America
Publishers note George VI appears in the new Who's Who in America, marking the first time an English king is listed. The edition adds 8,919 newcomers reflecting a broader foreign profile for American reference interest. Nine year old actress Margaret O'Brien is noted as the youngest entry since Shirley Temple.
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Britain
George
United States
Who's Who
America
Margaret O'Brien
Shirley Temple
Modern industry shapes labor and engineering needs
A contemporary view notes machines hollow a sandbank and mix materials while trenches are dug and shafts sunk. Industry lowers labor needs yet expands diverse tasks and deepens reliance on machinery, fostering a generation of engineers. The article also cites lung capacity: about six pints in a normal breath.
Extent of Canada's agricultural soil resources debated
Dr A Leahey notes that precise estimates of Canada's arable soils are provisional until surveys cover all potential areas. He cites the Precambrian Shield and Cordillera reduce arable land, climate barriers, and swamps as limits, with 1941 census showing 89 million cultivated acres and 53 million pasture acres, while suggesting about five percent of cultivated land could retire to grass or woodland.
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Canada
A. Leahey
Experimental Farms Service
Ottawa
Agricultural Institute Review
Agricultural Institute of Canada
CSTA
Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturists
Dr. Leahey
Dominion
Cordillera
Leahey
Prairies
Modern Trend Toward Jive Alarms Winnipeg Music Director
Miss Ethel Kinley, Winnipeg music director, told Canada's Federation in Toronto that the shift to jive and swing among youths endangers intellectual progress. She blamed Hollywood and New York stylists for cultivating excitement and primitive amusements and urged young wage earners to invest in masterworks and music lessons to foster true musical appreciation.
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Ethel Kinley
Winnipeg
Canadian Federation of Music Teachers’ Associations
Toronto
Hollwood
New York
Movement to regulate outdoor advertising in Britain
Britain plans government control of unsightly outdoor ads with new legislation to be introduced. Minister Lewis Silkin said ads serve a purpose and influence the public but should not spoil town or country amenities. Government aims to regulate without hindering advertising activity and urges advertisers to curb unsightly displays.
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Britain
Lewis Silkin
Incorporated Society of British
Maugham Gifts Manuscript to Congress Library
London writer W Somerset Maugham donates the manuscript of his novel Of Human Bondage to the United States Congress Library as a symbol of Anglo American friendship. The manuscript had been sought by American collectors for some time.
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London
W. Somerset Maugham
Library of the
United States Congress
Canadian Youth Delegation Arrives in Britain for Series of Visits
Eight Canadian youths representing schools churches and youth organizations began trans Atlantic visits sponsored by the Empire Youth Movement and the National Council of Education of Canada. The group reached Southampton on May 19 and met Princess Elizabeth and Lord Beaverbrook before joining the Victory Parade in London on June 8.
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Canada
Britain
Empire Youth Movement
National Council of Education of Canada
England
Kathleen Deacon
Branksome Hall
Toronto
Marion Charters
University of Toronto
Elizabeth Holmes
John Allen
David Stu
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CWAC
Columbus
Herbert Kennedy
U.S
Nicolai G. Redin
Lieut. Redin
Kennedy
Lon's Gate Bridge
Lion's Gate Bridge
Vancouver
British Commonwealth
Port Dolly Grassiot
Buffalo
N.Y
Fort Erie
Ont
C.I.0
Buffalo Girls
Tour
National Council of Education
Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
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