World Happenings Briefly Told
The United Kingdom plans a 1946 secret service budget of £25 000 900, far above £10 in 1945. The US war department seeks fuller Negro manpower in peacetime and in future war. Bertram C. Webber of the Dominion Meteorological Bureau dies in Toronto. Bermuda invites nursing training for white and colored girls in England for three years. Col Arthur Welsh says 20 000 000 US residents are expected to visit Canada this year.
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United Kingdom
United States War Department
Bermuda
England
Arthur Welsh
Ontario
Ontario Tourist Department
United States
Canada
Aga Khan weighed in diamonds in Bombay ceremony
In Bombay a diamond weighed ceremony honored the Aga Khan as he marked 60 years as Ismaili leader. A 32 carat blue diamond topped a balance of 2434 pounds, the total value of stones about $2.2 million. Iranian authorities and Ismaili delegates attended as followers prayed.
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Aga Khan
Persia
Iran
India
Allah Ho
Akbar
Allah Is
Garden Notes on Vegetable Groups and Lawn Building
The article outlines three planting groups for vegetables hardy semi-hardy and tender and explains lawn establishment. It stresses sowing peas carrots radish spinach lettuce in cool weather and repeating beets radish spinach sowings, plus soil building with manure or green manures for rich soil and even seedbed.
Young applicant seeks vice presidency at bank
The confident college graduate Gradwell Lesserman visits a New York bank and asks for an executive role. The manager notes there are 12 vice-presidents already, to which the applicant cheerfully replies he is not superstitious. An unrelated line about Alaska sourdoughs grows vegetables on sod roofs, and a mongoose fails to stop new world venomous snakes.
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New York
Gradwell Lesserman
Tsee
Super-Heat Material Britain Produces Light Blanket
Britain’s wool industry unveils a blanket weighing 33 ounces per full size, lighter per square yard than any rival. It is shrink moth and rot proof with a Fortsan silk cover, pure fleece stuffing, and millions of air pockets for maximum warmth with minimal weight. Initially export oriented, the material suits gowns bed jackets cot covers and similar items.
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Britain
Machine counts US population in nearly three years
A machine tabulating 400 names per minute at 40 hours weekly would take about two years and eight months to count every person in the United States, illustrating the scale of population data processing.
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United States
Will Be Greater
W L Clark argues Canada has no fixed population limit and can grow beyond 20 million. He notes Britain hosts 40 to 50 million, Europe fears new wars, and Canada offers stability and opportunity for future generations as growth may steady but inevitable.
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W. L. Clark
Windsor Star
Canada
Dominion
Great Britain
Europe
Wedding Rice Returns From Far Aisle Across Atlantic
Lieut John Holbauer of Milwaukee Wisconsin wrote he would marry an English girl in Ipswich Afterward he received from home the rice saved for his parents wedding More than 26 years later the rice appeared at his wedding as rice pudding The story highlights how food scarcity travels with people and customs across the ocean.
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Atlantic
Ipswich
England
John Holbauer
Milwaukee
Wis
Financial Post
Assurance for Poles troops abroad to be spared
A foreign office spokesman said Warsaw gave explicit assurances that Polish troops returning home would not be molested for political beliefs. British officials predicted their early demobilization.
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Foreign Office
Warsaw
Poland
Nelson Column morale aid in London during the blitz
The article recalls a 1943 visit to Trafalgar Square where a climber inspected the Nelson Column and declared it sound. It notes the column’s central perch amid Westminster’s bombing, its century since erection, and its alleged morale impact echoed by Nelson at Copenhagen.
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Nelson
Trafalgar Square
London
W. Larkins
Westminster
Copenhagen
Montreal Gazette
Yokouska Island Splits Into Dual Volcanic Masses
Two steaming volcanic masses form a twin islet 200 miles south of Tokyo. The twin humps rise to 70 feet with a 50-foot water channel between them. White steam blasts from fissures around the brown base as activity continues.
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Yokouska
Tokyo
Candidate toil for votes as widow weighs choice
The candidate for the Legislature toiled at sawing wood for over an hour to win a rural widow's favor. She emerged smiling from the house and asked who she should vote for, noting another suitor, Mr. Billings, is busy churning in the kitchen.
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The
Wall Street Journal
Mr. Billings
Letter urges pasteurization after boy’s raw milk illness
A West Summerland mother writes to the Vancouver Daily Province describing her three year old son in a Crippled Children's Hospital with spinal tuberculosis blamed on raw milk. She appeals for compulsory pasteurization across Canada, noting her town lacks pasteurized milk and urging public action. The Health League of Canada promotes pasteurization as safe and nutritious.
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Canada
Vancouver
West Summerland
Crippled Children’s Hospital
T.B
British Columbia
Dominion
Health League of Canada
The
111 Avenue Road
Toronto 5
Ontario
Expensive Ideas Provokes Taxi Driver Debate
A lecturer quips that Earth being round means one could travel east by heading far west, a remark that stirs bold ideas among taxi drivers and sparks discussion on routes and travel logic.
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Lord Nuffield
Capetown
Australia
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Glasgow
Foreign Economic Administration
Bertram C. Webber
Dominion Meteorological Bureau
Toronto
Sir Frederick Stupart
Hugh Dalton
Bombay
Canadian Army
ARMY
Regina
Maple Creek
Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Germany
Austria
Adolf Hitler
By Fred Neher
Mealth League
Young Boc
Gene Byrnes
BY WiLliam Ferguson
NEA
REGUS
Briarcliff
Springfield
Mass
LW Schmidt
Hanson
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