Fight Against Submariness Just Beginning London
Indications multiply that Germany is pushing a major submarine offensive to delay the Anglo American invasion of Europe and crush Russia. Reports describe wolf pack battles, heavy surface submarine activity, and Allied plans to counter the U-boat threat as the war moves into favorable weather months of 1943.
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London
Germany
Europe
Washington
Hitler
North Atlantic
British Admiralty
US Navy Department
South Atlantic
London Daily Mail
Steep Rock Iron to Develop Port Arthur West Property
Steep Rock Iron Mines Limited reports successful funding to develop the Port Arthur west property. Plans target 2,000,000 tons of ore per year with a 50 year reserve life, funded by a $8,727,500 package including a $5,000,000 Reconstruction Finance Corporation loan and a $2,025,000 underwritten debenture, plus government support for spur line and docks.
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Port Arthur Toronto
Steep Rock Iron Mines Limited
Port Arthur
United States
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Washington
Dominion
Ontario
Canadian National Railways
Alfalfa Meal Subsidy Announced by Agriculture Dept
The Agriculture Department announced a subsidy of 3 dollars per ton for alfalfa meal to encourage maximum production. The subsidy applies to meal ground and ready for use, with ceiling prices for alfalfa to be maintained.
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Ottawa
Agriculture Department
National health plan report urges saving infant lives
The advisory committee on health insurance outlines Canada’s first national plan and stresses conservation of infant life as a core policy. It cites declines in infant deaths from 1926 to 1940, assigns economic loss values, and highlights varying provincial mortality rates alongside overall national figures. The document also notes epidemics and rising deaths from heart disease and cancer in 1941. Buy War Savings Stamps.
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Canada
House of Commons
J. J. Heagerty
Health Insurance Committee
Mackenzie
House of Commons Social Security Committee
Quebec
British Columbia
Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Britain Plans 12 Year Reconstruction After War
London reports a white paper outlining a postwar house building program to rebuild bomb-battered Britain. Led by Sir Ernest Simon, the plan seeks a trained building workforce of about 1,250,000 with another 4,000,000 employed in material prep and essential services.
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Parliament
Britain
Ernest Simon
High Objective For The Fourth Victory Loan
Ottawa announces the Fourth Victory Loan opens April 26 with a target of 1.1 billion dollars. Individual subscribers are urged to contribute 500 million, about a third more than the Third Victory Loan, to fund war needs and curb inflation.
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Ottawa
Canada
Sisler
House of Cormons
Hiley
Victory loan appeal pressed for more individual buyers
The Mediterranean Chief government urges broader citizen participation in government borrowing. It notes non bank institutions and industrial groups backed prior loans, with $600 million from Third Victory buyers. To reach $1.1 billion, individuals must purchase about $500 million more, a 33 percent rise.
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Moderte
Canada
Victory
Northeast Airlines proposes first North Atlantic air routes
Boston based Northeast Airlines filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board to operate Boston to London Moscow and intermediate North European cities. The plan envisions a Boston to Moscow flight of about 5000 miles in 18 hours at a cost no greater than a third class trans Atlantic steamship fare. London would be reached in 14 hours and Paris and Amsterdam in one more hour.
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North Atlantic
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Moscow
Northeast Airlines, Inc
Civil Aeronautics Board
Washington
Paris
Amsterdam
Allies May Use New Strategy Against Burma
Allied forces may shift to an overland drive into Burma from India rather than a sea assault. American and Chinese troops join British and Indian forces in inch-by-inch fighting as monsoon season nears, with Japan holding most of Burma and a possible threat to India looming.
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India
Imperial Secretariat
Sir Archibald Wavell
Joseph Stillwell
U.S. Army
China
Burma
Brendon Somerville
U.S
Allen Hartley
Sir John Dill
H. H. Arnold
U.S. Army Air Forces
Casablanca
Daniel Boone
Bismarck Sea
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Labor Union Leader Howard Chase to Join CBC Board
Ottawa Prime Minister King announced the appointment of Howard B. Chase of Montreal to the CBC board of governors. Chase, vice grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, will fill one of two vacancies for a three year term dated from November 1 1942 and will represent labor on the board.
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King
Howard B. Chase
Montreal
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Chase
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Japan Faces Expected U S Bombing Campaign This Year
Tokyo's Asahi said the United States will bomb industrial districts in Japan this year or next and urged the population to prepare. Berlin radio quoted a Tokyo dispatch recorded by The Associated Press.
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Tokyo
Asahi
Japan
United States
Berlin
Associated Press
Girls Join RCAF Ottawa
During February more recruits enlisted in the women’s division of the RCAF than in any month since the service began in 1942. While exact figures are unavailable, enlistments pushed the women’s division over the 10 000 mark.
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Ottawa
R.C.A.F
Churchill blocks inspection of war criminals list
London report says Prime Minister Churchill in the House of Commons refused MPs access to the list of war criminals being compiled by a United Nations commission. He said the matter concerns many other governments.
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Churchill
House of Commons
United Nations Commission
Soviet pilots made major generals in Red Air Force
Moscow reports Georgi Baidukov and Andrey Tumashev, second pilots of pioneering planes flown from Moscow to the United States via the north pole in 1937, promoted to major generals by decree of Premier Stalin. In The Hague, twelve Roman Catholic priests arrested and five sent to Utrecht concentration camp for advising worshippers to evade total labor mobilization decreed by German authorities.
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North Pole
Red Air Force
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