World Happenings Briefly Told
Soviet scientists perfecting television sets to inspect ship hulls and sea-bottom objects. Japanese government to collect about 90 billion yen in special taxes. Common cold may soon be curbed by science, says Dr Selman Wakeman. Switzerland to release 16 600 tons of food for malnourished European children. Mrs Mary Crawshaw travels 6500 miles solo to visit relatives in England. India to send medical aid to Indians in Malaya, especially railway laborers. New Cologne Rhine bridge to be named Patton Bridge in honor of George S Patton Jr.
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Selman A. Wakaman
Europe
Mary Crawshaw
Bristol
England
Edmonton
Government of India
Malaya
Burma-Siam
Rhine
Cologne
Patton
George S. Patton, Jr
Tests Show Streptomycin May Increase Deaths Infections
FDA researchers report danger area where the antibiotic streptomycin raises death risk rather than lowers it. Penicillin may share this effect. In tests on 2000 mice, drug dose determined whether streptomycin killed or cured. Human trials not yet done.
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United States Food and Drug Administration
Henry Welch
Welch
Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association
Furious Queen Victoria Was Furious
BBC Bulletin notes a three part series about three women active in the women’s emancipation movement. It explains the title from Queen Victoria’s fierce opposition to women’s rights and her warning that emancipation would unsex and harm women and society.
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Queen Victoria
London
BBC
Two Arab horses arrive in Liverpool on Orbita
Two celebrated Arab horses gifted by Emir Abdullah of Trans-Jordan arrive in Liverpool aboard the Orbita. An expert notes a British blood stock sale could fetch up to £7,000 ($31,150) for the pair.
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Abdullah
Trans-Jordan
Elizabeth
Margaret
Liverpool
Medical Aid Reaches Northern Outpost in Mercy Flight
An RCAF crew organized a mercy flight to a remote northern outpost aided by shortwave radio and a war built airbase. Constable George MacKay radioed for help at Fort Chimo and a Dakota from Dartmouth flew Dr H W Lewis and team to Crystal One for medical exams and treatment.
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R.c.af
Indian Health Division
Department of National Health and Welfare
George MacKay
R.C.M.P
Fort Chimo
Ungava Bay
Quebec
R.C.A.F
Dartmouth
H. W. Lewis
East and West Arctic
Crystal One
Martin Brewer
Halifax General Hospital
Joe Pochene
Constable MacKay
Bailey
Edgecombe
W. J. Michalski
No. 164 Squadron
RCAF
Plumb ing preferred says Windsor Star on cosmic ray bomb
Amsterdam University professor imagines a cosmic ray device a billion times stronger than the atomic bomb. The Windsor Star quips more scientists should have chosen plumbing.
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Amsterdam University
Windsor Star
City Orders Pulque Bars Shut in Mexico City
Mexico City authorities ordered closures of pulque bars in poor districts after housewives complained husbands wasted time and money on the drink made from maguey root juice. A glass costs two cents.
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Mexico City
Oil Seep Used by Indians as Salve and Medicine
Report notes oil seeping from the ground was used by Indigenous peoples as salve and medicine. The article describes traditional practices and beliefs surrounding the oil source.
Ancient Ruins Unearthed Across France Since 1939
Since 1939 French soil has yielded numerous discoveries. In Var and Lot-et-Garonne magquis soldiers glimpsed prehistoric grottoes with three thousand year old wall paintings. Valenciennes revealed ruins after bombardment and old tombs. Aix en Provence exposed a wealthy Roman Greek villa site with mosaics Ionic capitals and mouldings. A nearby anti aircraft post uncovered a Roman town and Celtic village with two warrior busts a head of a woman and a lintel sculpture all showing signs of ancient pillage by Roman legions.
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Lot-et-Garonne
Var
Valenciennes
Aix
Cezanne
France
Canada
Freemen Of London and the Rules for the Conduct of Life
The article describes the freemen of London receiving a red gold-lettered book titled Rules for the Conduct of Life. It contains 36 rules combining worldly wisdom with piety from forefathers and notes the author is unnamed with no introduction.
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City of London
French engineer may aid Toronto in toy plant expansion
Philippe Herzan, a former radio engineer for the French underground, is in Toronto and may help Canada become a leading toy producer. He escaped from France via Spain two years ago and already runs a small plant mass producing musical toys.
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Toronto
Philippe Herzan
Canada
Germany
Japan
Herzan
France
Spain
North America Surpasses in Game Bird Species Count
North America hosts more game bird species than any other continent, reflecting rich avian diversity across regions. Researchers note variety across habitats and ongoing studies to catalog native and migratory species.
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North America
Continent
Making Sound Films How sounds are recorded for cinema
The National Film Board explains the sound creation process for films. Music, dialogue, and effects are recorded on separate sound tracks then combined to form the final soundtrack printed beside the film. Projectors then reverse the process to produce sound from the light on the film.
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Sound Department
National Film Board
Board
Berlin
Origin of word synonym for gossip on ships
The tale traces shipboard gossip to a water barrel between masts called the scuttle butt. Sailors paused at the water for a drink and to swap news, giving rise to the term scuttlebutt as a synonym for gossip or rumor.
MacDonald Installed Governor General of Malayan Union
Rt Hon Malcolm MacDonald, ex British High Commissioner of Canada, installed as Governor General of the Malayan Union and Singapore. Ceremony in the council chamber where Japanese surrender terms were signed eight months earlier. Malay Sultans attended in person. The new constitution groups Malay states and Straits Settlement into two administrations, drawing opposition over Sultan status in Britain relation.
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Malcolm MacDonald
Canada
Malayan Union
Singapore
MacDonald
Straits Settlement
Britain
Giant tree shears cut 60 ton force in seconds
Collier's Magazine reports a new giant tree shear mounted on a tractor that can cut a tree 2 feet in diameter in about 10 seconds. The tool applies up to 60 tons of pressure and makes felling nearly as easy as snipping a rose stem.
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Collier's Magazine
Mailman Distracted by Bold Starling Seizes Letter
Tillsonburg report notes a starling flew from a rural box with a letter in its beak. The mail contractor John Carruthers startled the bird causing it to drop the mail as he approached the box. A stray historical remark about Spanish adventurers finding peanuts in South America follows.
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Tillsonburg
John Carruthers
South America
Ocean depths: Pacific far deeper than Atlantic
The statement notes the Pacific Ocean has a greater mean depth than the Atlantic Ocean, highlighting a key difference in bathymetry between the two basins.
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Pacific Ocean
Atlantic
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