Opportunities In Trees In War Time Economy Rise
The article argues the war strengthens forestry aims. It notes the forestry association train travels prairie provinces boosting tree planting amid drought. It highlights Prairie Farm Rehabilitation and new markets for Canadian wood as war alters economic prospects. It urges more planting and careful forest management for lasting national wealth.
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Forestry Association
Prairie
Dominion Forestry Farms
Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Organization
Europe
United States
Norway
Hitler
Roland D. Craig
Dominion Forest Service
Ottawa
Canadian Society of Forestry Engineers
Baltic
United Kingdom
Craig
Canada
Arthur A. Schman
Canadian Forestry Association
Burlap in Great Demand Shapes Wartime Supply
Wartime burlap prices swing from six to 11 cents per yard as supply tightens. The British government must buy 500 million yards, driving use of cotton sacking and paper bags for packaging amid a global shortage. Photographers aid mapping in Antarctica with carbon black drops, and Vancouver hosts a leading fish oil refinery.
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Antarctica
Berlin Introduces Special Registration for Potatoes
The German government announces potato purchases in Berlin require special registry. After registration buyers may buy on two non consecutive days each week and only up to available supply.
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Berlin
Specter of Totalitarianism Across Nations Cited
The piece argues that freedom, kindness, justice, and civilized decency seen in Scandinavian nations are challenged by totalitarian power. It warns that might versus right is a worldwide question and urges vigilance against totalitarian rule. It notes the German people may resist long if conflict remains abroad.
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Christian Science Monitor
Magnetic mine defense through degaussing belts
A naval report explains magnetic mines and how degaussing belts, or DG equipment, neutralize a ship’s magnetism to pass over magnetic minefields. The system uses insulated cables around the hull energised to cancel permanent magnetism, offering partial immunity with no absolute guarantees.
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Britain
Gauss
His
War Scarcity Trials British Housewife Over Peg Shortages
Wartime Britain faces clothespin shortages as imports drop. Peg makers switch to springs and plan 5 million pegs weekly, selling at sixpence per dozen versus 12 wooden pegs per penny. Mouse-trap wire scarcity hits Leeds makers tied to anti magnetic mine work.
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England
Germany
Leeds
Auction mixups leads to mistaken house sale in Quincy
Mr and Mrs Norman Goodwin of Quincy Massachusetts were away on a brief vacation when an Home Owners Loan Corporation auctioneer raised a red flag on their piazza and sold their house and two car garage to the highest bidder after a misaddressed notice. The couple had owned the home for 16 years and the sale was intended for the neighboring house.
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Norman Goodwin
Quincy
Mass
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
Goodwins
Legend States Bodhidharma Found Tea Plant
An old legend credits Bodhidharma, a Buddhist sage, with discovering tea during a nine year penance. After he began to drowse from sleepless practice, he cut off his eyebrows and threw them on the ground, where tea plants supposedly sprouted.
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Bodhidharma
Matches sold under name Lucifers
A set of matches entered for play were sold under the name Lucifers, the unusual labeling noted in event records as the competition proceeded under that moniker.
Gold Powder Color Description
The passage notes that gold ground to a fine powder appears dark red or black in color.
Winnipeg wireless school joins British Commonwealth air plan
Hon. C. G. Power announced a wireless school of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. The program trains pilots air gunners and air observers for the Allied air forces with facilities for more than 1 000 airmen. The university residence will host students and staff and additional classrooms will be built nearby.
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British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
University of Manitoba At
Winnipeg
C. G. Power
National Defence
Power
Sidney E. Smith
Justice Dysart
Royal Canadian Air Force
New Zealand
Montreal
The
University
Will Survey Housing Next Census Include Living Conditions Quiz
A Canadian housing survey is planned to accompany the 1941 census by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics subject to government approval. Census takers will ask about house type sanitation heating bathrooms refrigeration fuel and rent plus rooms construction and other details. The Ontario Real Estate Boards urged the federal government to collect property and housing data during the 1941 census.
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Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Ontario Association of Real Estate Boards Convention
London
Early Tea Tale From the Western Hemisphere
An early Western Hemisphere tea story recalls a seventeenth century hostess who cooked a pound of tea and served it to guests with butter salt and pepper, illustrating colonial culinary experiments with tea.
Ancient Sparta youths played a proto football game
History records a ball game among Sparta youths about 2500 years ago resembling football. Roving players competed in a rough contest using a leather ball and improvised tactics as part of training and sport in ancient Greece.
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Sparta
Ear of Dionysius whispering gallery in Syracuse Italy
The Ear of Dionysius in Syracuse Italy is a 5000 year old limestone cave with a 50 foot high gallery that extends 200 feet into the cliff. Its acoustics carry the sound of tearing paper clearly from the prison room at the top where Emperor Dionysius once listened to whispers.
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Dionysius
Syracuse
Italy
Automobile Power Split at Highway Speed
A car traveling at 62 mph uses about 60 percent of its power to overcome air resistance. The rest powers the engine, drivetrain, and other losses, illustrating why aerodynamics dominate fuel use at higher speeds.
Bombay Engineer Proposes Wing Device To Cut Landing Speed
Phiroze P Nazir, a 32 year old Bombay aeronautical research engineer for the Indian government, describes a trailing edge cut slot and flap air brake device. When deployed during landing it reduces speed. when raised it aids lift for takeoffs from confined areas. The Indian government funds development and patent costs.
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Phiroze P. Nazir
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Bombay
One-Propeller Landing Feasible for Certain Aircraft
Experts say a plane may execute a safe landing with a single functioning propeller under proper conditions. Pilots rely on redundancy, speed control, and depressurization management to maintain control during an emergency landing scenario.
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