Britain's Automobile King Gave Millions In Making Philanthropic History
Lord Nuffield, Britain's automobile magnate born William Morris, has donated millions to medical research and education. He pledged 10 million dollars for a medical research institution at Oxford and gave 10 million for Welsh relief, then turned stock to his 15,000 workers. He built a vast empire from bicycles to cars and munitions, becoming a self-made philanthropy icon. He and his wife Elizabeth Anstey remain private figures despite immense wealth and influence.
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England
Santa Claus
Pil Morris
Britain
Oxford University
Lord Nuffield
South Wales
George Sixth
Baldwin
Oxford
Coventry
Birmingham
William Richard Morris
Cowley
Oxfordshire
Buckinghamshire
Berkshire
Green Bay
Scrap drives expected as autos head to junkyards
A St Thomas Times Journal forecast estimates 15 million cars now in use will be scrapped over five years while 20 million new cars are built. The average car life is eight years and, despite longer holds, vehicles change hands often before disposal. Salvage parts and scrap iron value rise as old cars disappear into varied future uses.
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United States
St. Thomas Times- Journal
Disappearance of London Ice Fleet Driven by Artificial Ice
The article explains how the London River ice fleet vanished after World War I as artificial ice replaced imported blocks. It notes Norway’s winter trade near Christiania and Skien Fjord, where ice ploughs cut large blocks for loading, and references Whitstable brigs delivering to Billingsgate market and London Dock under British crews.
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London
Norway
Christiania
Skien
Whitstable
Billingsgate Market
London Dock
P.L.A
Mounties to Parade With 35 Horses for Coronation
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police will send 35 scarlet coated members and their trained horses to London for the coronation of King George VI. The mounts travel separately from six troopers five days before the main party aboard the Beaverhill fast freighter from Montreal. Stalls will be padded in Montreal for the Atlantic crossing and care by Beaverhill crew. Landings occur at the Surrey Docks in South London with return on the Beaverford sailing May 20, 2193.
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Canada
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Montreal
London
Beaverhill
Surrey Commercial Docks
England
Beaverford
The Gould Piano Leaves White House for National Museum
The ornate Gould piano that has resided in the White House since Theodore Roosevelt era will retire to the National Museum after thirty years of service as a musical instrument and sight as visitors recall. Grace Coolidge, then a Massachusetts teacher touring Washington, once recalled finding the piano ugly and even joked about giving it a kick when she became First Lady.
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Gould
White House
Theodore Roosevelt
National Museum
Massachusetts
Washington
Grace Goodhue
Calvin Coolidge
Princess Elizabeth Likely to Take Part in Coronation Procession
Daily Telegraph reports Princess Elizabeth, age 11, may lead the procession of the Blood Royal at the Coronation. She is expected to wear a coronet and robe of rank, attend by Royal Household members, and perform homage by placing the coronet on her head when Queen Elizabeth is crowned. Princess Margaret is expected only to attend due to age.
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Elizabeth
Daily Telegraph
Margaret
Public Auction for Seized Jewels at Port of Seizure
If not redeemed, jewels taken from smugglers are sold at public auction at the port where they were seized. On the Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal coconuts function as money in local exchanges.
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Nicobar Islands
Bay of Bengal
Tug Boats From Quebec To Serve Mackenzie River
Two steel twin crew tug boats are under construction at Quebec for use on the Mackenzie Athabasca and Slave rivers. They will have shallow drafts, refrigeration chambers, and 20 foot sections for rail transport to Waterways, enabling three times the current radium concentrate shipments and mining supplies to reach Fort McMurray and Great Bear Lake operations.
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Sore
Quebec
Mackenz Athabasca
Slave
Athabasca
Slave Rivers
Northwest Territories
Fort McMurray
Northern Transportation Company
Eldorado Gold Mines Limited
Labine Point
Great Bear Lake
Proved It All Wrong Arithmetic Puzzle
A professor declares arithmetic true and a student counters with scaling examples. The student insists that 12 days 12 men imply 288 in one hour and 1 036 800 in one second, then questions a six ships crossing Atlantic in one day, challenging the truth of arithmetic with humorous paradoxes.
Coat And Tam Knit For Young Children
The pattern 5545 offers a knitted coat and matching tam for ages four six and eight. Includes plain knit with knit and purl cuffs and yoke, pattern illustrations and stitch details. Send 20 cents to the Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union for the complete instructions and materials list.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Oment
Tartans In Demand In Kilbarchan Scotland
Hand woven tartan cloth from Kilbarchan in Renfrewshire is in high demand with orders from Scotland and abroad including Australia Canada and America. Most cloth is woven locally then finished elsewhere into kilts scarves and rugs. The Kilbarchan weaving group has shrunk to 15 weavers who, with their wives, are fully employed handling orders.
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Renfrewshire
Kilbarchan
Scotland
Australia
Canada
America
Old Pottery Found Raises Ancient Manitoba Mystery
Archaeologists report pottery and helioglyphics unearthed in the mining country east of Lake Winnipeg Manitoba. The findings suggest a race 20 000 years ago may have links to ancient Egypt.
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Lake Winnipeg
Manitoba
Montreal Distance Gap Highlights Atlantic Trade Route
Montreal sits 1,000 miles from the Atlantic and 500 miles closer to Liverpool than New York, indicating shifting shipping and trade patterns. Germany leads in chemical imports, signaling strong industrial demand.
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Montreal
Atlantic
Liverpool
England
New York
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Lord Nuffeld
Bill Morris
Elizabeth Maud Anstey
Lord Nufield
Mackenzie River
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Ladak
Dominion
Beaverlodge
Grazier
Mecca
Coat
Tam
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Alice
Germany
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