Save Paint Brushes With Care For Long Life
Old paint brushes accumulate and may be more valuable now. Clean brushes by brushing excess paint onto absorbent surface, rinse in thinner, wash with warm soap and water, rinse until no soap remains, comb bristles straight, wrap in paper, and secure. For multiple days keep bristles in thinner, or reclaim hardened brushes with a brush cleaner per directions, then rinse and scrub.
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Hina
Jepar
Siberia
Navy
Air Force
Rock of Gibraltar A Crossroads Through History
Gibraltar's long history spans over a thousand years before Christ with Phoenician and Roman echoes. Conquered by England in 1704 and ceded in 1713, it withstood a major siege by French and Spanish forces from 1779 for four years. Today the Rock hosts a cosmopolitan town with a police population around 10 500, reflecting East and West in a busy international crossroads.
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Gibraltar
Strait
Rock
England
National Geographic Society
Great Britain
Spain
Rations For Lifeboats And Shipwreck Safety In London
A Berkeley Square team of Ministry of War Transport experts led by Thomas Metcalfe developed four week lifeboat rations and light devices for rafts. They created a buoyant auto lighting lamp and improved survival gear for British and Allied sailors, with ongoing scientific input for safety.
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Berkeley Square
Ministry of War Transport
Thomas Metcalfe
Berkeley Square Brains Trust
Tom Metcalfe
London Evening Standard
Britain builds store cupboards for reserve food program
Britain’s Ministry of Works completes hundred camouflaged storehouses in eight months to house about a million tons of reserve food and raw materials. Fortified and ventilated, these prefabricated aluminum and brick structures rise quickly, each housing five single and three double steel sliding doors, with asbestos roofs, amid blackout compliant measures.
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Britain
Ministry of Works
Roasting of their strong point is weakness with some people
A brief line notes that roasting one's strengths can be a weakness for certain individuals, suggesting mixed reactions to bold self-promotion.
Defining A Farm Under Census Rules
The definition covers land in one municipality or sub-district farmed by one person using household or hired labor. It must be at least one acre and produce $50 in 1940 or be used for 1941 crops or pasture. Fruit and vegetable farms include those selling vegetables valued at $50+, seeds, nursery or greenhouse products, or 50+ fruit trees.
Airflow and cooling for high altitude airplane engines
The text explains that at high altitudes air must be cooled for engines and that compressed air is blown into the carburetor to supply sufficient oxygen for combustion.
Record Wheat for Livestock Feed Sets New High
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports 1941 42 feed wheat at 59 239000 bushels a new record. Last year 48100000 bushels fed. Alberta shows the largest rise with smaller gains in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Ontario feeds down due to a short 1941 crop. Rail wheat shipments from the head of the lakes to Eastern Canada totalled over 7000000 bushels after August 1941 aided by freight policy.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Ontario
Head of the Lakes
Canada
India Makes Bicycles Aimed at Army Use
A Bombay plant now passes bicycles as suitable for army use, reducing imports from the United Kingdom and Japan. All parts except free wheel, chain, and hubs are now produced domestically, with strong military and civil demand justifying a solid start.
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India
Bombay
United Kingdom
Japan
Market for Every Man Price Declares Individuals
A proverb asserts that while all men have value, only some possess a marketable price. It frames commerce as a reflection of perceived worth and demand across society.
Ram Jam Inn tale of ruse and a sign of times
The article recalls the Ram Jam Inn on the Great North Road once known as the Winchelsea Arms after a guest tricked the landlady with a barrel ruse and left without paying. It also reports British subjects in Kobe describing Japanese military police as worse than Gestapo, detailing an arrest and coerced holding without food before embassy intervention.
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Great North Road
Grantham
Stamford
London
Winchelsea Arms
Japan
Douglas Young
Kobe
Tokyo
Heavy War Service Decreases Rolling Stock Value in Canada
The Canadian National Railways report increased depreciation on rolling stock due to heavy war service. The rolling stock is valued at 435 million dollars with a 3.12 percent depreciation rate in 1941. Controller T. H. Cooper told the commons railway committee that the rate exceeds that of major U.S. railways and will rise again this year amid heavy strain on equipment.
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Canadian National Railways
T. H. Cooper
C.N.R
Commons Railway Committee
United States
Air ace MacLachlan shoots down first enemy plane with artificial arm
Got Enemy Plane Sqdn Ldr J A F MacLachlan of the RAF, an arm amputee, shoots down his first enemy aircraft since receiving a specially designed artificial arm to operate Hurricane controls. The pilot was wounded over Malta in March 1941 and previously had a mixed score of German and Italian planes. A separate line notes: no white man has completed exploration of Florida’s Everglades winding channels.
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Ldr
J. A. F MacLachlan
R.A.F
D.F.C
MacLachlan
Malta
Everglades
Florida
Food production drives war effort urges farmers
Dr Barton urges planners to increase feed and crop output with emphasis on coarse grains and pasture. Canada aims to boost milk by 125 pounds per cow and meet Britain’s needs for cheese and evaporated milk, aided by a three cent Grade A egg bonus and rapid soybean and flaxseed production.
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Barton
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Canada
Dr R Barton
Britain
Wiltshire
Dominion
Underground London Water Supply Experiment
The Belfast Weekly Telegraph reports a thousand foot deep underground lake in London is being pumped to supply the metropolis. A new plant keeps pumping stations free of contamination and aims to obsolete surface reservoirs. Britain wells follow similar plans as five million gallons daily fund war factories and housing estates under expert scrutiny.
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Belfast Weekly Telegraph
London
Britain
War Office
Health Ministry
Great Unseen
Lost British Colonel Survives Behind Japanese Lines
A British colonel, dropped from his Gurkha battalion near Sittang bridge in Burma, sketched Japanese equipment as they passed. Wounded trying to dislodge a roadblock, he wandered three weeks behind enemy lines, evading capture by seconds, before villagers guided him to a frontier force unit. The officer’s casual reunion with his own unit featured light tea banter.
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Burma
Sittang
Hullo
Sealing Creature Produces Fresh Water Inside Its Body
A seal generates fresh water internally as a byproduct of digesting food, revealing a unique physiological adaptation. This self sustained process frees the animal from external water sources, illustrating an unusual metabolic pathway.
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Rock of Gibraltar
The
Red Cross
Switzerland
Henri Dunant
Bill Edwards
Canadian Youth Hostel Association
Ken Hagerman
C.Y.H
Alfred Rogers
America
Hagerman
Ram Jam Inn
Gestapo
United Nations
Francis Forde
Brisbane
Australia
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