Canada poised as hub for postwar air routes to Europe and Asia
The Fortune article notes Canada’s central position for direct North American routes to Europe and Asia, with long range aircraft and new staging routes via Alaska and Britain. It highlights Winnipeg as a potential global air trade port and warns of a conversion period for equipment and rights to operate through Canada and adjacent territories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Europe
Asia
North America
Newfoundland and Labrador
Northwest
Frontier
Alaska
Britain
Bri
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
U.S
Trans-Canada Airlines
TCA
North Atlantic
Yukon
Pacific
Vancouver
Orient
Bermuda
Hawaii
Women serving with anti aircraft crews urged
The Windsor Star notes that attitudes toward women in military roles must adjust to allow Canadian women to join anti aircraft gun crews. Training is underway for Canadian Women's Army Corps plotter telephonists, with women expected to serve alongside artillerists as the war continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Women’s Army Corps
Windsor Star
Seed Potatoes Cut Open Empty, Woman Argues
A Kansas City housewife bought a peck of seed potatoes from a grocer and returned an hour later with a platter of sliced potatoes. She complained that all were opened and contained no seeds. The story contrasts dialect variety with a uniform written Chinese language.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Reputation of Canadian Fighter Pilots in Malta
The text praises Canadian airmen in Malta led by American squadron commander John Lynch. It highlights Cyril Gosling from North Battleford and George Albert Hardy of Davidson Saskatchewan with 100 and 60 hours of ops respectively, noting their fires and missions over Sicily. It portrays these pilots as capable, brave, and representative of Canadian aircrew in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malta
George Beurling
Vedrun
Que
Canada
RCAF
R.C.A.F
Britain
Cyril Gosling
Saskatchewan Power Commission
North Battleford
Gosling
Dieppe
Sicily
Syracuse
Sicilian
West
George Albert Hardy
Davidson, Sask
Hardy
Animal By-Products Support North American String Makers
The article explains how North America began producing instrument strings after 1914 18, reducing reliance on Germany and Italy. It highlights processed animal by products from sheep cattle and swine including intestines for sutures strings sausage casings pepsin glands gelatin and pig tails sold in the British West Indies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
United States
Germany
Italy
North America
Health of Animals Division
Dominion Department of Agriulture
British West Indies
Dinner ties the score over mutton joke in Windsor Star
In Vancouver a dinner for prominent business figures featured Lord Shaughnessy head of Canadian Pacific joking about the menu as lamb then mutton. Senator Pat Burns was invited to speak after, prompting a quip about how Calgary lamb becomes Vancouver sheep, tying the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Clark
Windsor Star
Lord Shaughnessy
Pat Burns
Vancouver
Canadian Pacific
Calgary
Crops Tested Along Alaska Highway Route
Russian dandelions for rubber are among crops tested at Daw son Creek in cooperation with the U S Department of Agriculture. Other trials include elover from Siberia and alfalfa from Tibet. The Australian Council of Scientific Research has conducted 250000 mechanical tests in weed experiments for aircraft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dawson Creek
Alaska
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Siberia
Tibet
Australian Council of Scientific Research
Interlude Breaks Softball Tie With Target Briefing
A 14 all softball game among a Royal Air Force Boston squadron in North Africa ends when Wing Cmdr J R Thompson walks out with a briefing paper. The crew, sunburned and ready, resumes play after a swift target briefing and interrogation by intelligence officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R.A.F. Boston
North Africa
J. R. Thompson
D.F.C
Listowel
Ont
Salvaged Scraps Inspire Fruit Motifs and Wartime Aid
Small printed remnants become applique patterns featuring cherries pears and apples with six motifs. Pattern 7458 costs twenty cents and ships from Winnipeg. In wartime news the UK Canada China and India aided Soviet orders supplying tools rubber tin and tea to Russia via routes through Persia and Karachi to Moscow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newpaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Germany
Russia
Ceylon
Cornwall
Moscow
Sterling
Australia
New Zealand
Syria
Iraq
Persia
Canada
Palestine
Turkey
East Africa
India
Paris Narrowed Taxi Service Struggles With Petrol Cars
Paris has only 16 petrol consuming taxis left. They may serve doctors on urgent duty or patient transport, charging patients 100 francs per hour for 12 miles and doctors 60 francs per hour for nine miles. Parisians must rely on pedal powered taxis drawn by cyclists.
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Paris
North Side Honor Seating in Chinese Hosting Customs
The article states that in Chinese tradition the north side of a room is the honor seat with the host occupying that position facing south. It notes a cultural norm relating seating and social respect within the layout of a room.
Medal For Mountie Veteran Marks Northwest Passage Voyage
Constable W. J. Parry of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police received the Polar Medal from the Earl of Athlone at Government House Victoria. His 20 years of service include piloting the St. Roche from Vancouver in June 1940, frozen at Palsey Bay for 11 months, then becoming the first ship to complete a west to east transit of the Northwest Passage, reaching Halifax in October 1942.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Roche
Government House
Victoria
Earl of Athlone
W. J. Parry
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Vancouver
Arctic
RCMP
Palsey Bay
North Magnetic Pole
Northwest Passage
Halifax
Nervy Soldier Bravely Hands Grenades Amid Fire
A Private in a British First Army battalion moved through enemy fire to deliver grenades from a tray to his crouched comrades in slit trenches. He called out offers of cigarettes and chocolates as he passed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Army
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Tain
Nassau
China
Senator Pat Burns
R.A.F
Boston
Empire
Karachi
U.S.S.R
Nokkundi
Zahidan
Uk.c.c
Persian Gulf
Caspian Sea
Vladivostok
Alice Brooks
Kathleen O. Walker
Ottawa
Royal Canadian Air Force
Nancy McArthur
Frances A. Service
Toronto
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