F A C Conference in Quebec City Shapes World Food Policy
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations held a conference in Quebec City focusing on eliminating hunger by raising agricultural, forestry, and fishing production and organizing global distribution. It aims to prevent surpluses in one region while shortages exist elsewhere and to build international goodwill through improved nutrition and fairness.
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Quebec City
Canada
Food and Agriculture Organization
United Nations
Canada Hosts FAO Conference Aims for Global Farm Aid
The Food and Agriculture Organization emphasizes aiding individuals and farmers through advanced farming methods soil improvements and credit. FAO representatives will advocate for farmers before governments on marketing and related issues. Canada’s role as host nation and its prominent agricultural experts are highlighted in this pioneering UN linked effort toward practical international cooperation.
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Food and Agriculture Organization
F.A.C
Canada
United Nations
Prince’s son to accompany Earl of Athlone in Canada
The 22 year old son of the Earl of Harewood and the Princess Royal will serve as aide-de-camp to his grand-uncle the Earl of Athlone as he returns to Canada to finish his term as governor general. Viscount Lascelles, a king's nephew, was a Grenadier Guards prisoner of war for a year starting June 1944. Bamboo can expand up to 16 inches in circumference in a single day.
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Viscount Lascelles
Earl of Harewood
Princess Royal
Ear of Athlone
Canada
Grenadier Guards
Mountie Dog Prince Tracks Down Burglars in Maritime Force
Prince the Doberman pinscher, three years old, aids the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 79 cases over the year ending March 31, 1945, covering 3 800 miles mostly in the Maritimes. He helped locate stolen goods in Port Hood and led to two burglars who were later convicted.
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Prince
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Maritimes
Port Hood
N.S
Ottawa Journal
Glider Tow Crosses Atlantic in 1943
The British air ministry records the first glider tow across the Atlantic in June 1943. The flight from Montreal to England took 23 hours.
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British Air Ministry
Atlantic Ocean
Montreal
England
Gold First Found in Idaho in 2646
A historical note records gold discovery in Idaho dating to year 2646. The brief item highlights the earliest known gold find and mentions the regional context without additional details.
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Idaho
Price Control And Rationing Information Q and A
Wartime Prices and Trade Board answers questions on ration books sugar allotments for returning servicemen and demobilized workers. It notes five pounds extra sugar for eligible holders, permits ordering double breasted suits with Canadian production up 5 percent, advises destroying unused coupons, and references Miracles of Make-Do plus Make-Do pamphlets Consumers' News and Blue Book for ceiling prices.
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Consumers’ News
Prices and Trade Board
Contentment as the true riches in quotes
A compact collection of maxims and citations on contentment. Writings from Dillwyn Balguy Horace Mary Baker Eddy Emerson and Spenser highlight happiness as inner wealth and the link between character and outer fortune.
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Dillwyn
Balguy
Horace
Mary Baker Eddy
Emerson
Spenser
Weather Experts Predict Colder Winters This Year
Dominion experimental farm scientists study maps and charts and forecast a colder winter than last year. Dr. R S DeLury attributes the trend to sun spots and argues cloudiness could drive progressively colder winters for four to five years as solar disturbances shift.
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Dominion Experimental Farm
R. S. DeLury
Canadian Walk named in Lincoln's Inn Fields ceremony
Newman's row in Lincoln's Inn Fields London where the RCAF had wartime headquarters was renamed Canadian Walk in a ceremony. Mayor Wilfred Mullen of Holborn and Air Marshal G O Johnson unveiled two plaques and walked the road as a band played The Maple Leaf Forever.
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Newman's Row
Lincoln’s Inn Fields
London
R.C.A.F
Holborn
Wilfred Mullen
G. O. Johnson
Crossword Puzzle Clue List Mixed With Themed Answers
A jumble of crossword entries lists across and down clues with hints for words such as To fling To banish To slander High card NetWork and many more including tile like Venusian and foreign language terms. The list fuses standard puzzle items with scattered stray letters and numbers indicating positions.
First Canadian CWACs Honor Roll and Denmark Visit
The article profiles S Sgt Teresa Hoskins of Broadview Saskatchewan as the eighth CWAC recruit rising from Drafts to Central Registry and notes her service during World War II. It also highlights CQMS Camilla Carlsen of CWAC visiting Copenhagen, the first Canadian servicewoman there since liberation, revisiting family after 14 years and describes Denmark under occupation and postwar relief.
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Canadian Women’s Army Corps
Saskatchewan
Teresa Hoskins
Broadview
Sask
CWAC
Terry
No. 12
Edhlon
Canadian Army Pacific Force
Breckville
Ont
Kentucky
South Pacific
Hoskins
Regina
RCAF
Denmark
CQMS
Camilla Carlsen
Canadian Women's Army Corps
Holland
Copenhagen
Camilla
E. Beyer
Port Alberni
B.C
Victoria
Red Cross
Canadian CWAC member posted to Holland during war
Camilla enlisted in the CWAC in Victoria in October 1941. She received a UK posting in March 1943 and was reposted three months ago to 51 Company CWAC in Appeldoorn, Holland. She plans to return to Canada on demobilization.
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Camilla
C.W.A.C
Victoria
United Kingdom
Appledoorn
Holland
Canada
Free To Teachers Learning Unlimited booklet aids classroom film use
Associated Screen News of Montreal and Toronto distributes a new Free To Teachers Learning Unlimited booklet to educators. The guide covers preparing to use motion pictures, facilities, selecting and obtaining films, school-made films, projection quality, and a reading list. Copies are free by writing 1330 Sherbrooke St West Montreal. This is the third booklet in a series on better utilizing films with other titles Architects Visual Equipment Handbook and Acoustic Treatment of Auditoriums.
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Associated Screen News
Montreal
Toronto
Filmo
Sherbrooke St. West
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