Government Purchases Goods As War Necessity And To Stabilize Prices
The Dominion government expands into buying and selling wheat apples bacon and ham seed and other commodities to keep prices stable and ensure supplies. It cooperates with producers and uses agencies like the Canadian Wheat Board and the Agriculture Department to absorb surpluses and support domestic markets during wartime.
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Dominion
Canada
Canaan
Canadian Wheat Board
Great Britain
Nova Scotia
British Columbia
Central Canada
Ontario
Quebec
Canadian Bacon Board
J. G. Taggart
Saskatchewan
Agriculture Supply Board
A. M. Shaw
Agriculture Department
Northern Ireland
American girl asks about Lincoln Cathedral joke
An American girl about to visit England asks if Lincoln Cathedral exists. A friend confirms the beauty of the building and the girl quips that it is named after Abraham Lincoln, amused by the coincidence.
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England
Lincoln Cathedral
Abe
Flour use ban extends to animal feeds in Britain
The British ministry of food announced a restriction prohibiting flour or milled wheat products for nonhuman consumption except under a special license. The order covers dog, livestock and poultry foods. Separately an X ray method now allows accurate determination of heart size and weight.
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Ministry of Food
Canada War Effort Industrial Survey Advances
The Industrial Survey tracks plant suitability for war production with 2 300 firm visits by technical assistants. Each plant is evaluated for current facilities and potential production from ship propellers to tin cans. Lt Colonel G Ogilvie heads the Plant Survey Division.
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Dominion
G. Ogilvie
Berlin child asks about Hitler statue in odd father reply
A Liberator A Pple and his son glimpse a Hitler statue in Berlin. The father explains the dictator freed them from chains by comparing him to a mother's chain and his own watch chain. Russia projects over 500000 tractors and 165000 combines to operate this year.
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Pple
Berlin
Hitler
Britain’s Unchanged Resolve V C Bishop Speaks in Toronto
Montreal Star reports Honorary Air Marshal W A Bishop V C addressing the St George’s Society in Toronto. He asserts Britain and Canada will remain unbeatable and liberty must be a fact, not a fiction, as fighters prepare to sweep the skies once more.
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Goering
Canada
W. A. Bishop
V.C
St. George's Society
Toronto
St. George and
Merrie England
Germany
Britain
Connecting Link For Dominion Experimental Farms Service
The Division of Illustrated Stations aims to connect the experimental farm with the farmer on the land by linking research with practical field application. The program emphasizes outreach and dissemination of farming methods through illustrated stations and demonstrative work.
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Dominion Experimental Farms Service
Europe Posts Lowest Mean Altitude Among Continents
Among the continents Europe records the lowest mean altitude at 980 feet while Antarctica has the highest at 6,000 feet, highlighting stark elevation contrasts across major landmasses.
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Continents
Europe
Antarctica
Toys the Way Children Want Them by Anne Farrell
Anne Farrell, age 28, directs the Toys by Anne Farrell department at Milton Bradley Laboratories in Springfield Massachusetts. She designs forty everyday toys that aim to be durable and educational in effect, insisting toys should be serviceable and fulfill parental psychological needs. Farrell studied at Columbia University and in Sweden, where she designed toys for Swedish cooperative societies.
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Times
University of Minnesota
Alfred O. Nier
Columbia University
John R. Dunning
Physical Review
Anne Farrell
Miss Farrell
Milton Bradley Laboratories
Springfield
Mass
Gracie Fields to entertain troops in Egypt and Palestine
Gracie Fields will fly to the Near East to entertain Empire troops in Egypt and Palestine. The announcement came at an Anglo-French concert at Drury Lane Theatre where Fields and Maurice Chevalier headlined. They were thanked by the Duke and Duchess of Kent.
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Gracie Fields
Near East
Empire
Egypt
Palestine
Drury Lane Theatre
Miss Fields
Maurice Chevalier
Chevalier
Duke and Duchess of Kent
Cross Stitch Pattern 6687 From Winnipeg Newspaper Union
A note describes pattern 6687 offering six cross stitch motifs about 5 by 8 inches with transfer lines and stitch illustrations. To obtain the pattern send 20 cents in coins to the Household Arts Department at Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave E. There is no Alice Brooks pattern book published.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Shipping obstacles slow European refugee flow to Canada
Ottawa Journal reports Frederick C. Blair of the Department of Immigration says wartime shipping and capital controls shrink European arrivals to Canada. He predicts a flood of newcomers after peace, with Canada welcoming refugees who are financially self supporting and not a public charge, while noting limited Finnish and Scandinavian migration and the absence of formal quotas.
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Canada
Western Hemisphere
New World
Frederick C. Blair
Department of Mines and Resources
Blair
Europe
Dominion
United States
Helsinki
Oslo
Stockholm
Ottawa
Ottawa Journal
Origins Of Measures Through History And Varied Systems
The account traces how units such as the foot, cubit, grain, inch and acre arose from bodily and practical standards, noting regional variations in length and different weight and volume systems. It mentions evolving scales like avoirdupois, troy, long and short tons, and diverse measures from horses to paper, concluding with linguistic and regional differences.
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Acre
England
Avoirdupois
Troy
Technology Review
Compressed Air Magazine
Two Nazi Ministers Assigned to Rome Embassy Staff
The Roma embassy operates with two Nazi ministers on duty. One monitors the Ambassador and the other oversees the minister watching the ambassador. This arrangement highlights the bureaucratic surveillance within the regime.
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Rome
Traditions And Laws Hinder Women’s Progress, Says Rodgers
Buffalo attorney Mrs Helen Z M Rodgers told Elmira delegates that traditions and laws block women politically and economically. She warned a mass movement could begin with married women and spread to all female workers, noting industries like cosmetics and clothing would suffer if women stopped working. She urged joint effort by men and women to solve world problems and cited Siberian rivers and a misattributed claim about the wheelbarrow.
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Helen Z. M. Rodgers
Buffalo
American Association of University Women
Elmira
Rodgers
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