Immensity of Canadian farm war effort praised by Lord De la Warr
Lord De la Warr recounts his Canadian tour meeting farmers and meeting pools and boards. He highlights the vast war effort and 45 percent production increase with a large loss of men, notes prairie land rehabilitation and soil care, praises stock quality, and urges Britain to take bold leadership in world food policy and economic planning for stability.
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Lord de la Warr
Commonwealth
British Commonwealth
Canada
Ottawa
London
Vancouver
Livestock Association
Guernsey
Great Britain
Canadian Federation of Agriculture
Quebec
FBI
Labour Party
Canadian RCAF Navigator Receives U S Army Air Medal
Flt. Lt. Eldon B. Elliott of Sutherland Saskatchewan has been awarded the United States Army Air Medal by the US president for a special hazardous mission into enemy territory. Elliott, reported missing after the mission, is the ninth RCAF member to receive the medal. The full citation remains partially withheld for security reasons.
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Air Force Headquarters
Eldon B. Elliott
Sutherland, Sask
R.C
Elliott
R.c.af
Smuts Defends Commonwealth Ties at Cape Town Speech
Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts told a South African Parliament committee that the British Commonwealth remains a valuable concept. He condemned extreme positions and opposed moves toward republic status or weakening ties, urging no loosening of the Commonwealth.
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Jan Christian Smuts
South Africa
Cape Town
British Commonwealth of Nations
Commonwealth
Eire
Memorial planned in Westminster Abbey for Battle of Britain airmen
The Battle of Britain airmen who died will have their names enshrined in the Chapel of Henry VII at Westminster Abbey. A Battle of Britain memorial, funded by over 40 000 pounds, will bear illuminated names on a roll of honor after the war.
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Britain
Henry VII
Westminster Abbey
Tudor
Churchill
Lord Trenchard
R.A.F
Lord Dowding
Buckingham Palace
Tewkesbury
Virgin Mary
Henry VI
Henry VIII
Henry
Windsor
Oliver Cromwell
Robert Blake
Pietro Torrigiani
Robert Harley
George II
Order of the Bath
George V
House of Parliament
Sten Gun Factory Origins in Britain and Canada
The Sten gun story began in Britain's small factories and workshops with garages and sheds housing lathes and drills. Britain owes much to small teams including Major Shepherd and Mr Turpin whose initials form the weapon's name EN. The Empire's largest Sten gun factory is in Canada.
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Empire
Canada
Britain
Shepherd
Turpin
England
Ottawa Citizen
AIR ATTACKS MEETED BY HEAVIEST AA BARRAGE OF WAR
The current air raids on London are met with the heaviest concentrated anti aircraft fire of the war. Guns are faster and more accurate than in the Blitz years of 1940 41.
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London
Not Good Salesman When Irvin Cobb Was a Youth
Irvin Cobb, then a callow youth, nearly pursued life insurance sales. He met a Kentucky farmer near Paducah who hosted meals and chores, but Cobb never pressed his pitch. The farmer declined life insurance, and Cobb left to pursue reporting and later cinema, convinced he lacked sales talent.
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Irvin
Cobb
Paducah
Kentucky
Irv
Fort William
Colorful embroidery aprons pattern 7726 for mail order
Practical hostess apron idea with up to date needlework details. Pattern 7726 includes transfer design, pieces, directions, color tips and stitches. Send twenty cents to Winnipeg Household Arts Department for pattern 7726 and include name, address and pattern number. Mail delays noted.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
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Smuts
C.P.R
Favourable Lake
Berens River
Red Cross
L. C. Bartlett
Canadian Pacific Airlines
Canadian Pacific
Bartlett
J. Dunn
Ethel Kraus
AIR
Irvin Cobb
Italian East Africa
Alice Brooks
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