Canada Eyes Oil Boom As Alberta Leads Output
The Canada Year Book notes Alberta supplies about 88 percent of domestic oil with Turner Valley and Vermilion Lloydminster districts leading. Fort McMurray sand deposits hold vast potential up to 250000 million tons per estimates, while a pilot plant studies commercial extraction. War demand boosted Canadian oil and Fort Norman fields expanded for military use.
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Canada
Dominion
Alberta
Turner Valley
Vermilion-Lloydminster
Calgary
Fort McMurray
United States Bureau of Mines
United States
Germany
Fort Norman
Northwest Territories
Alaska
British Empire
Trinidad
McMurray
Ex-service man plans BC first orchid farm near Chilliwack
R W Sodergren, an ex service man, aims to build what he believes will be British Columbia’s first orchid farm on a 15 acre property near Chilliwack. He intends to plant 10 acres with orchid bulbs year round and grow some outdoors. He plans to give free corsages to girls who wreath at Canadian Legion funerals for veterans. Although new to orchid farming, he has years of tropical bulb experience. The article also notes Hawaii has 20 islands and 6449 square miles, with nine islands inhabited.
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R. W. Sodergren
British Columbia
Canada
Canadian Legion
Sodergren
Chilliwack
Price Control And Rationing Information
Q I was recently discharged from the Armed Services and lost my priority suit certificate. Can I obtain another? A You cannot replace your priority suit certificate. Each discharged service member is entitled to only one certificate. Q Has price control on cigarettes been lifted? A Yes price control regulations for cigarettes have been suspended. Q May I use sugar coupons for preserves A The first five pounds of canning sugar may be bought from May 2. These coupons also cover jam jelly molasses honey marmalade or other products purchasable with S sugar preserves coupons. Sugar preserves coupons $8 to $12 become valid May 2 to cover the extra five pounds of canning sugar or other preserves. Q When do butter coupons become valid in May A Butter coupons are valid May 2 May 16 and May 23, each for half a pound. Please send questions for the pamphlet Consumers News of the Blue Book to track ceiling prices, mentioning this paper to the Wartime Prices and Trade Board office nearest you.
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Armed Services
Consumers’ News
Prices and Trade Board
The Air We Breathe and Rayon Water Use
The article notes a person ingests two to three quarts of food and drink daily, while the lungs receive 10 000 to 12 000 quarts of surrounding air. It also states seventy five gallons of water are required to produce one pound of rayon.
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Hamilton Spectator
Allied Control Commission outlines postwar German plan
The Allied control plan limits Germany to 5.8 million tons of steel and bans magnesium aluminum synthetic rubber oil aircraft ships and arms while allowing coal timber textiles leather and glass exports. It falls short of Morgenthau aims but promises fewer repeat horrors if Allies stay tough for 10 to 20 years.
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Allied Control Commission
Germany
Reich
Morgenthau
Hitler
Ottawa Journal
Western Canada gains share in milk production over time
The Brandon Sun notes a shift in dairy production from Ontario and Quebec to the Prairie provinces. In 1920 those provinces accounted for about 67 percent, the Prairies 22 percent, and the Maritimes and British Columbia 9 percent combined. By 1944 Ontario and Quebec fell to 60 percent while the Prairies rose to 30 percent, with the Maritimes and British Columbia sharing the remaining 10 percent.
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Canada
Western Canada
Exin
Ontario
Quebec
Dominion
Praire Provinces
Maritimes
British Columbia
Prairie Provinces
Brandon Sun
Wrong Impression about British Food Conditions
British housewives challenge official hospitality for overseas visitors saying hotel grill room menus mask harsher food realities. Emily Hill, wartime widow and four children’ mother, argues foreign guests would misjudge Britain unless they lived under the same rationing as British housewives.
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Britain
Emily Hill
United States
Dominion
West End
National Holiday in Egypt Marks Shem-el-Nessim Day
The 22 April festival unites Muslims Christians and Jews in Egypt. Egyptians rise before dawn to scent spring air and fend off summer fatigue. Originating as a Coptic feast, it falls the Monday after Greek Orthodox Easter and is spent in picnics with city dwellers joining countryside trips when possible.
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Shem-el-Nessim
Egypt
Nile
Crossword Puzzle Clues and Answers List for Readers
Puzzle entries include numbers and clues covering animals, tools, chemistry symbols, and common words. The list references across and down clues with terms like tellurium symbol and nickel symbol, plus phrases for phrases like to deceive and movable shelter.
Gems of Thought on Duty and Morality
A collection of brief quotes on duty, moral action, and virtue from figures such as Goe, Jackerson, Mary Baker Eddy, Thomas Paine, Mencius, J. W. Dulles, and E. H. Chapin. The notes emphasize prompt faithful conduct, neighborly duty, and the moral post of honor, alongside a note that coffee plants yield first crops in their fourth year.
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Jackerson
Mary Baker Eddy
Thomas Paine
E. H. Chapin
Canada Lumber Cut Near Record Figure This Year
Reconstruction Department officials predict a lumber cut of five billion feet in the year, up 100 million from 1945. Officials say barring labor difficulties there will be enough lumber to keep up with other building materials. Early spring break up reduced some output but was offset by the big 1945 harvest brought out at the start of this timber season.
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Canada
Reconstruction Department
Smile a While Cartoon Dialogue Snippet
A dialogue panel excerpt features quick snippets of everyday banter. Misplaced lines about brash humor and patience mingle with workplace and domestic scenes. The humor plays on roles from boss to servant and hints at wartime era resilience.
Australians Revere Captain Cook Like Columbus
Australians view Captain James Cook, the English naval explorer who charted the Pacific coast of Australia in 1770, as a Columbus figure, a revered discoverer whose voyage reshaped national history.
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James Cook
Pacific
Australia
Far-Sighted Swiss Build Stockpiles For War Ready Nation
An analysis notes that Switzerland, facing a long war, saved food and increased production before hostilities. It established a liberal rationing system, keeping shops stocked with items scarce in America and Britain, presenting a model of wartime resilience.
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Chicago Daily News
Different Meal Time in Elizabethan England
The article notes distinct meal schedules in Elizabethan England with nobility and students dining at 11 and 5 to 6, merchants at noon and 6, and husbandmen at 12 and 7 or 8, illustrating social timing differences.
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England
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Tia
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Mencius
J. W Dulles
General Foods
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Office
Office Boy
Bill
Jane
George F. Harris
Winnipeg
Geet
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