Royal Family Plans 1947 South Africa visit
Buckingham Palace announced the Royal Family will visit the Union of South Africa early next year. The King Queen Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret will travel with the heiress presumptive to Capetown likely in February. The trip marks the first by a reigning sovereign since 1909 with possible sea or air travel and a temporary council of state during the King’s absence.
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Union of South Africa
Burkingham Palace
South Africa
Elizabeth
Margaret
Canada
United States
Smuts
Capetown
United Kingdom
East Africa
Duke and Duchess of York
Uganda
Britain
Buckingham Palace
War costs in WWII far exceed WWI per BIS estimate
The Bank for International Settlements in Basel reports total WWII costs at about 1.352 trillion dollars, four times the WWI total of 338 billion, after adjusting for 1913 to 1945 dollar values and including lives, property, production losses, and neutrals’ losses, per the Buffalo Courier-Express.
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Bank For International Settlements
Basle
Switzerland
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Carnegie
Bank of International Settlements
Buffalo Courier-Express
Allied Anglo American Alliance Debate Cited by Times
U S and Britain discuss Mr Church ill proposal for a military alliance. The article notes acceptance depends on evolving events including UNO's success or failure and Britain's pledge toward self government in the Empire. If UNO falters, Americans may seek a defense alliance with Britain.
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Churchill
When Day Begins The Date Line Shifts With Longitude
The article explains that each 15 degrees of longitude west of the International Date Line pushes the new day one hour later. As the globe is circumnavigated a day starts where another ends at the 180th meridian, illustrating how the calendar zigzags across longitudes.
Peanuts spun into fibre weave cloth with lasting wear
Scientists demonstrate peanut fibre being spun into fabric that rivals traditional textiles. The research outlines the potential for durable, sustainable cloth made from peanut components.
London Transit Board Outlines Far-Reaching Postwar Subway Plans
The London Passenger Transport Board reveals in its 40,000-word twelfth annual report wartime transport secrets and plans to develop high speed subways within 50 miles of Piccadilly Circus to relieve congestion. It notes use of eight deep-level shelters as possible nuclei and recounts wartime protections and casualties.
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Greater London
Piccadilly Circus
London
London Passenger Transport Board
Thames
Transport
Hudsons Bay Company seeks 200 Arctic posts staff
Winnipeg officials report about 300 applications from Canadians and Newfoundlanders for posts from Labrador to the Mackenzie basin. About 65 to 80 men are needed for 200 posts. Accepted recruits undergo a three year apprenticeship with six weeks paid vacation after. They live at remote posts with limited company of RCMP missionaries and Eskimos to learn fur trading. Six months of the year light comes from oil lamps.
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Hudson's Bay Company
Winnipeg
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
First Hand Tale On Trafalgar Day Reported by Haswell
Thomas Henry Haswell of Shetton England marks the 140th anniversary of Trafalgar Day claiming to be the only living person to have heard a firsthand account of the battle. His father served as a boy aboard H.M.S. Revenge.
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Thomas Henry Haswell
Shetton
England
H.M.S. Revenge
New Food Head Named for Ottawa Mission
Mr J L Croome, head of the British Food Mission in Ottawa, will leave Canada to return to the Ministry of Food in London. He will be succeeded by Sir Andrew Jones CMG as head of mission.
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J. L Croome
British Food Mission
Ottawa
Canada
Ministry of Food
London
Sir Andrew Jones
Cmg
Fast camera records human reflex in surprise tests
Northwestern University psychology professor William A Hunt and colleagues used a 3000 frames per second camera to film subjects disturbed by pins and pistol shots. The study found the initial reaction is a reflex, not emotion, with results analyzed via slow motion projection of the film.
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William A. Hunt
Northwestern University
Evanston, Ill
Neuropsychiatric Branch
Navy
Hunt
Prefabricated Vessels To Be Built On Clyde And Sent Abroad
Six ships are to be constructed on the Clyde and launched in India and China. Sections will be bolted together on the Clyde then dismantled and boxed to be shipped abroad where they will be rebuilt using the numbers as a reconstruction guide. The first three will launch on the Yangtze River amid fireworks. Indian ships will launch on the Irrawaddy and be christened with coconuts. A separate prefabricated steamship for Lake Titicaca was built at Dunbar and carried over mountains to water. Buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
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Clyde
India
China
Yangsze-Kiang
Irrawaddy
Lake Titicaca
Peru
Dumbarton
Pull Together We Must End the Deadlock
The piece argues deadlocks in families communities or nations require change not compromise. Pride anger envy and malice lock doors and must be replaced by honest self review and teamwork. Change is painful but preferable to breaking apart, with growing pains as the path to unity.
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Canada
American Farmers Seek Massive Alberta Settlement Plan
More than two thousand American families from Idaho Washington Montana and other western states await emigration to northern Alberta as a Canadian plan gains traction Negotiations led by Byron W Johnston of Spokane with Lands Minister N E Tanner and C A Buchanan outline potential multi million agricultural investments and land use Johnston notes land in northern Alberta costs far less than western states and could support 15 townships for settlement with families seeking improved farming prospects and resources.
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Alberta
Idaho
Washington
Montana
Edmonton
Byron W. Johnston
Spokane
Wash
N. E. Tanner
C. A. Buchanan
Canadian Pacific Railway
Department of Immigration and Colonization
Johnston
Canada
Princess Alice Gift Sparks Canada Scholarships Fund
Grateful Canadian women led by Catrine Wilson presented Princess Alice with a gift marking five years in Canada. The Princess Alice Foundation Fund now totals 47850 dollars, with a cheque handed to Her Royal Highness at a government house ceremony. Chief Justice Thibaudeau Rinfret and auditor general Watson Sellar serve as trustees. Princess Alice praised the gesture and received a hand bound copy of Vers Ispahan.
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Women of
Canada
Catrine Wilson
Princess Alice
Government House
Alice
Thibaudeau Rinfret
Watson Sellar
Auditor General of
Pierre Loti
Hungary Letter Shows Runaway Inflation Stamps
Mrs George Chras tina received a letter from Hungary with 53 stamps of 300 pengo each. At the pre war exchange rate the sister paid the equivalent of 3180 Canadian dollars to post the letter to Hamilton.
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Hungary
Hamilton
George Chrastina
Soup From Waste Food Collected For Germans In Oldenburg
Waste food from kitchens and messes of Canadian army units in Oldenburg is collected daily and processed into soup. The soup is canned for distribution to Germans in the area facing near starvation due to reduced civilian rations in the British occupation zone.
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Oldenburg
Germany
Curious Epitaph Recipes on King Louis Philippe’s Tomb
The world’s most curious epitaph was a set of daily changed recipes affixed to the French king Louis Philippe’s tombstone. A metal frame held the pages and a chef supplied the dishes. Sir Isaac Newton noted color arises from the light reflected by substances.
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Louis Philippe
Sir Isaac Newton
Arctic survey urged amid maps gaps in Canadian North
The Arctic Institute of North America issues Bulletin No 1 calling for extensive scientific work to map Arctic North America. It notes that satisfactory maps exist only for a small area and parts of the Canadian Arctic have never been seen from the air. The institute seeks better mapping and broader data to aid northern defense.
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Arctic
Canada
Arctic Institute of North America
Canadian Arctic
Terrtory
Arctic North America
North American
North America
Back River
Hudson Bay
Scotland
R.C.A F
Artic
Waxworks profits fund five-year dividends for troops visit
Canadian forces in London toured Madame Tussaud's waxworks, and the museum's 1945 earnings were sufficient to pay dividends on preferred and ordinary shares for five years.
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London
Madame Tussaud’s
Mixed Nagasaki damage study and Peru water egg custom
A Nagasaki bomb study notes a house with a battered lower section and intact upper area after a scientist asks a housewife if it is an atomic bomb. She replies it is a small toy. In Peru, locals celebrate religious holidays by throwing water eggs that crack and release water.
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Nagasaki
Peru
Rocket Attains High Speed and Altitude in WWII Test
The Nazi V-2 rocket reached speeds over 2 500 miles per hour and flew to altitudes exceeding 6 miles in wartime tests.
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