Unlikely meeting ends with vow to wed
In a New York cocktail lounge a first lieutenant and a woman named Julie discuss escape and fate. He reveals a plan to kidnap, then they bond over past marriages and personal change, agreeing to marry once the marriage bureau opens tomorrow. Cornelius Peter Grayville becomes a shared identity.
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Peter
Julie
Peter Granville
New York
Bud
Granville
Davenport
Cornelius
Pete
Cornelius Peter Grayville
Pete Granville
World famine blamed on pests wastes vast grain supply
Scientists told the United Nations FAO that pests destroy about 72,500,000 tons of cereals peas beans and oil seeds each year. Rodents will eat 25,000,000 tons and insects 36,250,000 tons, leaving a shortfall far larger than wheat losses this year.
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United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
Wren Sharp seeks drafting course after Navy discharge
Regina based Wren Sharp aims to study architectural drafting after discharge. Navy officials doubted a woman could enter the field but were persuaded by Miss Blanche Lemco and Barbara Humphrys, noting female architects exist. Sharp, strong in math and drawing, prefers drawing to typing or bookkeeping and hopes to start at the Canadian Vocational School in Regina.
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Wren Marjorie Sharp
Navy
Regina
Barbara Humphrys
VLA
Wren Sharp
Blanche Lemco
City Planning Office
Scott Collegiate
Regina Avenue
Albatross Trap Formations Highlighted in Australia
A natural trap in Australia creates a steep walled valley where albatrosses, lacking wind, dive and crash against a cliff at the enclosure end. Burrowing owl remains the sole land bird known to nest underground.
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Australia
Border talk and jokes on undefended Canada US line
Health Minister Claxton argues the border is 5.655 miles long not 3.0 miles and is undefended. He speaks at a Kiwanis meeting in Ogdensburg and Ottawa. The piece weaves anecdotes about cross border quirks from Rock Island Vermont to Quebec by election antics and a farmer on the border.
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Ottawa
Claxton
Kiwanis Clubs
Ogdensburg
N.Y
Rock Island
Vermont
Canada
United States
Quebec
Davidson
Roosevelt
Tax Assessors Office
United States-Canada
United States Border
Extra Help Farmers Eligible for Transient Labor Rations
Farmers who provide twelve meals or more to temporary hired help may apply to the wartime prices and trade board for transient labor rations. If the worker stays over two weeks, the farmer can use the employee's ration book, treating the helper as a household member and using meat sugar preserves and butter coupons as valid.
London bombs yield nearly ten tons of explosive
Capt. G A Frake of the Royal Engineers No 2 Bomb Disposal Company reports seven of the 21 unexploded German bombs beneath Greater London bombed sites are being dealt with. Two bombs found recently were abandoned as not a public danger.
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Greater London
G. A. Frake
Royal Engineers
No. 2
Stan
Croydon
New Industry This Atomic Age Alberta To Launch $100 Million
Dr. E. S. Moore told the Royal Society of Canada in Toronto that rapid industry growth in Alberta would amount to a new $100 million venture in wood products. He warned that a single atomic blast could not destroy the earth due to scarce fissionable material.
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Alberta
E. S. Moore
Royal Society of Canada
Toronto
Alberta to Launch Large Timber Industry for Wood Products
Edmonton Bulletin reports a nearly 100 million timber and wood products project likely to begin soon. Governments and Canadian financial interests back a broad timber purchase from High Prairie to Peace River with a large processing plant planned near Peace River to produce furniture and prefab buildings for North American distribution. The venture aims to employ thousands.
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Alberta
Edmonton Bulletin
Dominion
High Prairie
Alta
Dawson Creek
B.C
Peace River
Baked Cheese Eggs a La Mode Recipe
A compact recipe for Baked Cheese Eggs instructs boiling eggs, halving them, combining yolk mash with sharp cheese spread salad dressing green pepper celery and seasonings, refilling whites, breading with cornflake crumbs and baking. Yield 4 to 6 servings.
Former French underground engineer aids Toronto toy plant
Philippe Herzan, once a radio engineer for the French underground, may help Canada surpass Germany and Japan in toy production. He escaped France via Spain two years ago and runs a small Toronto plant mass producing musical toys.
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Toronto
Philippe Herzan
Canada
Germany
Japan
Herzan
France
Spain
Specially Sweet Easter Dress Pattern 4677
Anne Adams Pattern 4677 offers a dainty dress with its own jacket or a sunfrock design. Available in sizes 2 to 10, size 6 requires 1 1/2 yards of 35 inch fabric. Send 20 cents to the Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg for orders. London reports about 7,000 telephone operators. 2673.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
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Elizabeth Lamsdorff
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Firestone
Speedway
Wumness
Ayaa
London
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