Canada could hold 50 million with new settlement plan
Montreal observers heard Prof. Gilbert Taylor of the University of Toronto discuss geography and nation planning. He said about 800000 square miles are unpopulated and could support population growth toward 50 million, highlighting Mackenzie Slave Peace river area and a St. Lawrence fringe as growth regions.
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Montreal
Canada
Gilbert Taylor
University of Toronto
Montreal Geographical Association
Faculty Club
Taylor
Mackenzie-Slave-Peace River
St. Lawrence
George H. T. Kimble
McGill
Peace River
Mackenzie Triangle
Siberia
Arctic
Pittsburgh
Asia
Occupation Authorities Open Borders for German Business
The Allied and Soviet zones in southern Germany open borders to German businessmen. The Japanese Imperial household reduces staff from 8200 to about 4000 in the first year of occupation. Allied HQ notes the recovery milestone as war loot is shipped back and honors given by Queen Elizabeth reach Channel Islands churches. The US returns Keflavik airport to Iceland, and wartime loot including a Queen Victoria statue is sent home. Richard Grew, once a Nazi-era interned Canadian trade official, is named Canadian trade commissioner to India.
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Allied
Hong Kong
Queen Victoria
Imperial Household
Kure
Where the Trouble Lies by Malcolm W. Bingay
Detroit Free Press columnist Malcolm W. Bingay critiques contemporary thinking as focused on the hour or year instead of the generation. He argues society blames the last war and obsesses on depictions of insanity in books, plays, and films, urging a shift toward sane perspectives.
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Malcolm W. Bingay
Detroit Free Press
Eggs in plastic jackets sent to the King at Balmoral
Miss Constance Liddicoat, 22, delivered two dozen eggs in plastic jackets to Balmoral Castle for the King and Queen aboard an American airliner. The eggs, said to be unbreakable and peelable to reveal fresh shells, can keep nine months.
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Balmoral Castle
America
Constance Liddicoat
Britain
Liddicoat
Balmoral
London Daily Mail
Whale meat sandwich used to stretch German rations
A whale meat sandwich spread, about 1500 tons, has arrived in Hamburg and is being mixed with plant proteins at four factories in Hamburg and Schleswig Holstein. Officials describe the blend as having no oily or fishy taste and catering to the British occupation zone.
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Hamburg
Germany
Schieswig-Holstein
Crossword Puzzle Clue Set Fragment
Puzzle fragment lists numerous crossword clues with mixed numbering and partial words. Readable entries include music high note misrepresent keep build title of respect and various vertical and across hints.
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New Guinea
Fuel economy training scheme for British stokers and staff
The Ministry of Education launches a program to train stokers and boiler house attendants in economical fuel use. Local authorities are asked to arrange courses with examinations and syllabuses set. The article notes the Crusoe story was inspired by Alexander Selkirk who lived four years on a Chilean island.
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Britain
Ministry of Education
Robinson Crusoe
Alexander Selkirk
Chile
Improved Food Habits Needed Says University Expert
Dr. E. W. McHenry of the University of Toronto told a Health League of Canada meeting that Canada has enough food to meet health needs but many Canadians lack proper eating habits. He urged childhood nutrition education to foster healthy lifelong food choices and noted goitre is the main adult deficiency, with iodized salt as the practical iodine source.
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Canada
E. W. McHenry
University of Toronto
The
Health League of Canada
Dr. McHenry
University
School of Hygiene
McHenry
Premier Attlee and War Name Debate in Commons
In London Prime Minister Clement Attlee declined to set an official name for the 1939 to 1945 conflict. He suggested the term Second World War would likely prevail. An MP quipped about a possible third war, to which Attlee joked there was a first and second Punic war but not a third.
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London
Britain
Clement Attlee
House of Commons
M.P
Thomas Cecil Skeffington-Lodge
Attlee
Medical Officers Admit Shell Shock Exists Now
Washington reports army medical officers affirm with study of 34 cases that shell shock is a real syndrome caused by blast on brain tissues. The term had been outlawed for years but is now recognized as a genuine medical condition by the Medical Corps Bulletin.
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Washington
Army
The
Medical Corps Bulletin
Mail coaches in England begin long history of travel
The passage notes that mail coaches began in England over 150 years ago, traveling about eight and a half miles per hour. The London to Edinburgh journey took 18 days, illustrating early slow transits.
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England
London
Edinburgh
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Sask
BS Labs
Alexander Kozak
Katerina Gelman
Gripsholm
New York
Morris Zeidman
Toronto
Scott Institute
General Foods
Premier Attlee
William
Fenevsos
By Fred Neher
Peggy
Chuck Thurston
ARS
Les Carroll
Ica
Scotland
Ruth A. Wickens
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