UNRRA Aims Wide Relief For Liberated Areas
Liberty Magazine outlines UNRRA plans to aid 130,000,000 Europeans and 250,000,000 Chinese, with a total relief pool near two and a half billion dollars. Contributions from 44 nations total about 1 percent of 1943 incomes, led by the United States covering roughly half. France and the Netherlands pledge to pay. credits and negotiable forms comprise most aid.
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UNRRA
Washington
United Nations
Europe
Japan
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
France
Netherlands
Liberty Magazine
Sheep farming profits with low labor and seasonal peaks
A Dominion Station report notes that sheep require little labor relative to cattle, with feed often covering annual costs through wool returns by midsummer. In wartime profits rise. lambs fed on rape pasture perform as well as grain fed, and open shelter suffices.
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E. van Nice
Dominion Experimental Station
Scott, Sask
Scott Station
Former Queen Elena Seeks White Thread for Needlework
Italy's former queen Elena, wife of Victor Emmanuel III, famed for simple tastes, longs for a country life to knit and embroider. She recently wrote to a friend requesting some spools of white thread to pass the time making clothes and embroidering bibs.
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Elena
Italy
Victor Emanuel
Bomb damage to churches in Britain's frontline diocese
The Bishop of Dover estimated bomb damage across the Canterbury diocese with sixty six churches affected. He reported pine churches completely destroyed, twenty eight heavily damaged and twenty nine damaged to a smaller extent. Temperature readings noted as 96.6 degrees Fahrenheit in various locations.
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Britain
Canterbury
Dover
Milk goat praised as economical in remote Canada
A Canadian agriculture booklet extols goats as cheap to keep and able to provide fresh milk twice daily. It notes butter and cheese use, suitability for infants, and easier digestion in cold weather, yet reports only 12 000 goats in the country and that northern communities still rely on cow milk from cans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agriculture Department
Canada
Doe
North
Regina WVS Centre Announces Wartime Garden Survey Plans
Regina W V S Centre outlines two wartime projects for women volunteers. They plan a Wartime Garden survey to count gardens last summer and harvest details, and they are remaking garments for Europe with sewing rooms in public schools. One district library is used as a community centre one afternoon a week.
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Regina
Agricultural Supplies Board
Women of
W.V.S
Europe
Board of Education
Still Flying at Fifty-One Air Officer Flies Spitfires
White-haired Air Vice-Marshal L O Brown CBE DSC AFC air officer commanding a Tactical Air Force group still flies Spitfires at age 51. He logged 62 hours of flying in September visiting wings under his command.
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L. O. Brown
C.B.E
DS. A.F.C
Tactical Air Force
Mechanical woodsmen fade as power saws rise in lumbering
The Lethbridge Herald notes a Vancouver firm’s invention of a power chain saw driven by gasoline, electricity, or air, capable of cutting trees at 2000 feet per minute. A one man pulp mill model uses a 14 horsepower engine and 825 feet per minute blade speed, edging out traditional axe and bucksaw methods.
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Vancouver
Jean
Black Jack
Lethbridge Herald
Desert Conservator Describes Australia's Interior
An observer portrays inland Australia as vast stretches of emptiness with endless miles of barren desert. The remark highlights the harsh, featureless landscape and the perception of remote, undeveloped regions.
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Australia
Precious jewels in war effort as tools and toolsmakers
The article notes precious gems and synthetic substitutes playing key wartime roles. Diamonds drill tools and precision parts, sapphires rubies and garnets power watches instruments and deck safety, with synthetic versions increasingly used as natural supplies dwindle.
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Germany
Europe
United States
Simplon
Switzerland
New Ticket Machine Foresees Quick Rail Travel Printing
Edward H. Bunnell predicts a future where railway tickets are printed on demand. American and German models are described, capable of printing station names, fares, dates, and serial numbers. Machines also handle ticket accounting and dining-car receipts, with about sixty in use aboard key railroads.
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Edward H. Bunnell
Association of American Railroads
New York Times
Bunnell
Germany
Southern
New York Central
Silence as Social Skill Cited by Psychologist
A psychologist argues that quiet women have better marriage prospects than outspoken sisters. He contends that "the silent girl" can more effectively attract a husband by avoiding talkativeness, framing silence as a social strategy for courtship.
Navy doctor visits isolated Labrador hamlet
Helping Out Surgeon Lieut. J. J. Macneil of New Waterford N S came aboard the ship to see free patients as the vessel stayed for days at a remote Labrador fishing settlement. He treated four to six callers daily and went ashore daily to reach those too ill to travel. A pregnant woman declined a delivery by the officer noting locals prefer midwives over doctors for births.
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J. J. Macneil
R.C.N.V.R
New Waterford
N.S
Labrador
Navy
Salt Filtering Briquets Make Sea Water Drinkable
A new chemical briquet demonstrated in Worcester Massachusetts removes salt from seawater to yield drinking water. Each candy bar sized briquet treats seawater in a plastic bag, precipitating salt in about twenty minutes, with filtration as the flyer inhales through a tube. A supply of briquets could furnish fourteen days of drinking water for a flyer.
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Worcester
Mass
Needlework Pattern 7105 for Embroidered Dress Panel
This item offers a transfer embroidery pattern for a panel and collar and a dress pattern in sizes 2, 4 or 6. Send twenty cents to the Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue E Winnipeg Man with your name address and pattern number. Expect delays due to slow mail delivery of patterns.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Roosevelts Says Italians Free to Choose Destiny
The Ottawa Journal reports President Roosevelt asserts Italians will govern their own fate but rejects Mussolini’s plan to turn the Mediterranean into an Italian lake.
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Roosevelt
Ottawa Journal
Duce
Mediterranean
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