The Economic Front Shapes a Modern War This Time
An analysis argues the present conflict is an economic war where finance, trade, and diplomacy decide victory. It notes two-way sea blockade, neutral pressures, and strategic aims as Britain, Germany, and allies battle for currency reserves and material flow while land air and sea actions serve as backdrops.
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North Sea
Germany
Balkans
Scandinavian
Holland
Belgium
Italy
Britain
France
Russia
Discovery of silver’s germ killing power reported
Dr Alexander Goetz of Caltech presented at the American Philosophical Society that a single atom of silver can kill a living germ cell. Silver’s use in sterilizing water was cited, contrasting prior beliefs that millions of silver atoms were required to kill a germ.
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American Philosophical Society
Philadelphia
Mt. Everest
Alexander Goetz
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
Lumber For Britain Lifts Canadian Forests as War Demand Grows
Canada becomes Britain’s largest lumber reservoir as Scandinavian and Baltic shipments are curtailed by wartime conditions. The forest products industry coordinates with the British Timber Control while UK officials survey Canadian sources of supply. Alexander Dumas later in life turned to writing a book of recipes.
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Canada
Britain
United Kingdom
Asleep At The Wheel Court Rules Gross Negligence
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court full bench holds drivers who knowingly stay drowsy while behind the wheel can be grossly negligent. A Bristol County motorist who fell asleep and injured his relatives had a verdict sustained against him.
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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bristol County
Eden explains war aims as preserving progress
Anthony Eden succinctly states the Allies fight to preserve the possibility of progress, aiming for the world to advance to greater things, while Hitler would drive it backward into the dark ages.
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Anthony Eden
Hitler
Moon’s Orbit Expands Around Earth
Scientists report the moon's orbit is gradually enlarging due to tidal effects. Data collected over decades show a measurable increase in distance from Earth, potentially altering long term lunar cycles and Earth-Moon dynamics.
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Earth
West Indian Loyalty to Empire Amid War Strains
An editorial in the Daily Gleaner Jamaica asserts West Indians remain loyal to the empire despite internal disturbances. It notes a Trinidad riot era fears, but stresses Jamaicans and others would volunteer for front service when called, showing shared commitment beyond local disputes.
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Gleaner
Jamaica
Trinidad
West Indies
England
Fooling Fish with Nylon Leaders In Angling
Vic Baker writes in the C I L Oval about over a thousand artificial flies and the long history of fooling fish since the Boke of St Albans. Modern advances include nylon fishing leaders described as nearly invisible in water.
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Vic Baker
St. Albans
Wynkyn de Worde
Caxton
Westminster
Red Cross fund-raiser totals reach Regina
Saskatchewan division of the Red Cross reports raising 237000 since last October under Commissioner F W Marshall. About 100000 of receipts were sent overseas to build and equip a 600 bed hospital at Taplow England.
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Saskatchewan
The
Red Cross
F. W. Marshall
Regina
Taplow
England
Harvard to build Western Hemisphere solar observatory
Harvard University announced a high altitude observatory at 11318 feet in Climax Colorado to house a Corona graph the first western hemisphere and third worldwide. The instrument aims to image the sun's corona and prominences enabling day to day solar study and potential forecasting of magnetic storms on Earth. Astronomer Don H Menzel leads the project with expected summer erection.
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Rcans
Harvard University
Fremont Pass
Colorado Rocky Mountains
Harvard
Donald H. Menzel
Earth
France Rises as War Machine of Industry
The Times lauds France melding war effort and labor, describing a transformed nation with two faces: at the front and in the workshops. After six months of effort, French industry, now a gigantic war machine, presses toward victory though military needs remain complex and demanding.
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France
The
Times
London
Edward III Edict Sets Oyster Seasons in 1375
The 1375 edict of King Edward III established the first law protecting oyster beds by setting seasons to conserve oyster resources.
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Edward III
England
Pattern 6675 Kitten Embroidery Transfer Design
Pattern 6675 offers a kitten transfer pattern for wool cotton or silk embroidery. It includes a 15 inch picture color chart and stitch illustration with materials needed. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermott Ave E Winnipeg. No Alice Brooks pattern book published.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermott Ave
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Wing Commander Lawrence Led 14 Month Hudson Strait Survey
Wing Commander Thomas A. Lawrence directed a 14 month Hudson Strait expedition to study ice, weather, and navigation for opening regular Hudson Bay shipping. He led 40 personnel with Eskimo guides, with no fatalities despite one officer drifting 40 miles on an ice floe before shore was reached.
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Canada
Hudson Strait
Thomas A. Lawrence
Royal Canadian Air Force
Lawrence
Hudson Bay
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic
Labrador
New petrol cookers bring hot meals to front line troops
Canadian First Division arms up with insulated petrol cookers and soundless front line carriers. The devices burn gasoline for three hours, heat 25 gallons of liquid food or 50 pancakes at once, and deliver meals in cork insulated boxes with no flame visible to the enemy. This replaces the old non insulated dixies once used, reducing smoke and mud contamination during rapid advances.
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Dominion
Economic Output Reveals Bread Eggs Meat and Steel Totals
The article notes that an average person consumes 400000 pounds of bread 12000 eggs 300 hundredweight of meat and 600 hundredweight of potatoes in a lifetime. It states that the steel industry produces about 70000000 tons of ingots annually or 1328000 tons weekly.
Vanishing American notion challenged by Canadian Indian policy
The Indian affairs branch reports 118 406 Indian subjects in Canada in 1939 versus 112 510 in 1934. While some are prosperous farmers others rely on hunting fishing and trapping. Government aims to assure livelihoods through wildlife conservation. In Ontario Quebec Maritimes Indians mix farming with traditional livelihoods in remote regions. In the plains they farm successfully. on the Pacific coast many work in fishing.
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Indian Affairs
Mines and Resources Department
Canada
Ontario
Quebec
Maritime Provinces
St. Lawrence River
Mackenzie River Valley
Yukon
British Admiralty Buys Yacht Yolanda for Five Dollars
The British admiralty disclosed it purchased the $1,000,000 yacht Yolanda for five dollars from G. J. Guthrie Nicholson of Newport Rhode Island. The 25 year old vessel, once armed in WWI, was in British waters last fall after modernization. Mrs Nicholson urged scrap value, and the deal proceeded for five dollars. her eldest son Moses Taylor Jr was killed in the first war.
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Admiralty
G. J. Guthrie Nicholson
Newport
R.I
Bermuda Aquarium Showcases More Homelike Tropical Fish
The Bermuda government aquarium displays additional tropical fish in tanks that replicate native reef sections. Coral, anemones and sponges flourish as the marine life swims in recreated habitat environments.
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Bermuda Government Aquarium
Pressure at Earth's Center Measured At 22000 Tons per Sq In
A historic measurement puts central earth pressure around 22 000 tons per square inch. This figure reflects the immense forces beneath the planet's crust and aids early geophysical understanding.
Fox Hunting Costs About 50 Million Annually in England
England spends roughly 50 million dollars each year on fox hunting costs. The figure reflects expenses tied to hound care, staff, and land access as part of traditional rural sport.
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England
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