Trans-Canada Air Lines Expands to Moncton Atlantic Route
Ottawa Journal notes Trans-Canada Air Lines moves eastern terminal from Montreal to Moncton with familiarization flights Moncton to Montreal daily, paving the way to Halifax. The piece reviews system readiness, safety record, weather service, airports, pilots trained in instrument flying, and long-range schedule benefits across Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trans-Canada Air Lines
Atlantic
Montreal
Moncton
Trans- Canada
Toronto-Windsor
United States Air Lines
Trans-Canada
Winnipeg
Vancouver
Winnipeg- Montreal
Toronto
Edmonton
Seattle
Washington
Halifax
Canada
Ottawa
Prairies
Ottawa Journal
Mrs Post urged to rule on gravy mopping at table
The St Thomas Times-Journal notes Mrs Emily Post endorsed dunking doughnuts and calls for her to rule on allowing mopping up gravy with bread. It argues bakers favor less waste and cites social norms at parties and home dining, urging a formal stance from Mrs Post.
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Emily Post
New York
Winnah and Champeon
U S Naval Expansion Plan to Add 126 Ships
Congress will be asked in January to authorize a 1.3 billion naval expansion adding 95 warships and about 2400 aircraft. The plan includes three aircraft carriers eight cruisers 52 destroyers 32 submarines 31 auxiliary vessels and 36 lighter than air craft. Also ships stated blimps and a comment on a hat joke and unrelated facts about flowers and elephants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Congress
Electricity in Canada Drops Light on Modern Growth
The Winnipeg Free Press notes rapid electrification from 1923 to 1937 with mines and manufacturing reaching about 80 percent. It cites soaring energy use in 1938 and 1939, with 62 percent of Canadians enjoying electric comforts at home, and contrasts it with the costly and illusory past of candlelit living.
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Canada
Sister
Grandma
Hubby
Winnipeg Free Press
Helium radioactivity method aids prospecting says Keevil
Dr. Norman B. Keevil of University of Toronto physics staff explains that the helium radioactivity technique to determine rock ages could guide intensive prospecting to granite bodies and help locate new gold sources. He notes applications for geologists and mining firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman B. Keevil
Physics
University of Toronto
Keevil
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard University
Mining Company
Healthy place to live shines in St Mary with fit nonagenarians
The Journal Argus shows a 92 year old tailor fitting a suit for a 90 year old resident, highlighting elderly vitality in St Mary Ontario. Barrie Examiner notes nonagenarians are still active. The report also mentions tuberculosis found in 57 parts of bovine animals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mary, Ont
Argus
Barrie Examiner
Business As Usual in Wartime England Moves to Country Offices
Wartime Britain sees a decentralization of business with panelled country houses and barns serving as offices as executives and clerks work amid clattering typewriters and telephones. Some workers miss city bustle, others enjoy the country air and food. Early in the war firms sought thousands of country homes to house operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Toronto
Orillia
Montreal
St. James Street
London
Indians Conserved Soil in Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellings
National Park Service surveys in Mesa Verde reveal prehistoric cliff dwellers built hundreds of small check dams to trap silt and increase arable land. Dry farmers, they practiced terrace-like farming to grow corn beans and squash, a system echoed by Hopi Pueblo today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
National Park Service
Mesa Verde National Park
The
Park Service
United States
Arizona
The Wrong Place Parading with a Tiny Union Jack
A young recruit marches proudly with a small Union Jack pinned to his tunic. The sergeant major, surprised by the lad's evident patriotism, gently cautions him to remember he is in the British army now and to curb such displays.
Studying Tree Anatomy Highlights Key Features
The guide outlines important tree features for study including leaves flowers fruits bark buds and their arrangement leaf scars and overall tree form. It emphasizes these elements as essential notes for identifying and understanding tree species.
Crochet These To Keep Her Warm Pattern 6504 Christmas
A Winnipeg pattern notice offers pattern 6504 for a cap scarf and mittens in 4 6 and 8 year sizes. It lists materials and stitch illustrations and asks readers to send 20 cents to the Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 McDermot Ave E Winnipeg. No Alice Brooks pattern book is published.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Household Arts
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Magnitude Of The Task Of Furnishing Supplies To British Expeditionary Force
Reuters reports detail BEF supply magnitude in France. An army corps needs 70 000 gallons petrol daily and 3 000 tons of food from the UK. field bakeries produce 1 000 tons of bread and biscuits daily, with fresh vegetables supplied by the French government. Base depots, duplicate mains, and rail to road transfers keep troops supplied. 7 000 vehicles and 2 000 motorcycles in France, RAF lorries supplement transport. The quartermaster general Lieut General W G Lindell bears ultimate responsibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Reuters
United Kingdom
Army Service Corps
A.S.C
R.A.F
Ministry of Supply
B.E.F
W. G. Lindell
Advertising to Invest During Crisis Says Canadian Business
The Winnipeg Free Press reports Canadian Business argues wartime demand boosts purchasing power and calls for maintaining advertising budgets. It predicts unemployment will vanish within months and urges firms to fund future sales through advertising while profits can support constructive development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Canada
Winnipeg Free Press
Appeal to workers urged to follow Red Cross hospital supply directions
The Red Cross calls on women's organizations to make hospital supplies as directed or waste will occur. A parcel sent to 410 Sherbourne Street in Toronto contained Hampton bed pads using wadding instead of gauze, causing discomfort as pads must be boiled. The note also cites 1937 Canada pig iron output rising 32 percent and a local claim of two birds per acre in the United States.
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The
Red Cross
Sherbourne Street
Toronto
Has Helped Business A Novel Idea Is Booming
Leo Spinelli of Pittsburg has created a booming business selling newspapers downtown. He dresses sharply and offers his wares in a calm voice to crowds at theatres and late suppers. Beans are noted as common in upper class Mexican meals and deserts. Stars in the firmament carry names or numbers. Severe winter cold affects flowers in the north temperate zone. Only near the equator can one see all star constellations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo Spinelli
Pittsburg
Spinelli
Equator
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Sloneton
U.S. Naval Expansion
Congress
Cornwall
Ness
Coprera
Woodstock Sentinel Review
Dominion of Canada
Acre
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