Canadian Statistics Report Highlights July Trade Gains
Canada’s July commodity exports rose 22 percent in value from a year earlier while imports jumped 30 percent. For seven months to July, exports gained 13 percent and imports 29 percent, producing an import balance of 597.2 million dollars, over three times last year’s July-end balance. Major gains occurred in wheat, wood pulp, newsprint, iron ore, aluminum, copper, zinc, and petroleum.
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Canada
British Columbia
Newfoundland
Rockies
Ice Cream Serving Tips and London Bell Toll
Ice cream serving at home is made easier with pre portioning for a la mode sundaes and parfaits kept in the freezer. Parfaits and pies are prepared ahead, with pies topped by meringue and baked briefly. The London clock tower rib bell in Parliament is heard six miles away.
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Freeezer
Rib Ben
Houses of Parliament
London
MIT space course signals surge toward manned travel
The MIT program, led by Dr Dona Menzel, outlines early space effort linked to Project Vanguard. It frames unmanned satellites circling Earth and future lunar missions, predicting a manned flight era by the 1960s and noting secrecy surrounding missile tech.
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Robert C. Cowen
Christian Science Monitor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dona. Menzel
Harver
MIT
Forthcom
International Geophysical Yea
L. Menzel
Moon
Earth
Divorces in Canada Rise Postwar Across Eras
The text traces divorce trends in Canada across the World Wars and postwar periods, noting 373 in 1919, climbing to 448 by 1921, peaking near 2,088 in 1946 and 7,683 in 1947, with later declines to about 5,922 in 1904 amid continuing instability and back-and-forth totals.
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Devorces
Canada
Wheat Cultivation Traced Back to Early Stone Age
Archaeologists note evidence that wheat cultivation began in the Stone Age, indicating early agricultural activity and plant domestication in ancient communities. The finding suggests grain use emerged long before recorded farming systems and transformed early diets and economies.
Grass silage for young stock and calves
The Animal Husbandry Division at Ottawa cautions that grass silage high in protein and vitamin A is good for young dairy stock but may cause scours in very young calves. Start feeding after calves reach about four months.
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Rock VY
Logan
Animal Husbandry Division
Experimental Farm Service
Ottawa
Forage Rations for Growing Dairy Heifers and Calves
Roughage for growing dairy heifers and calves can meet needs with barn or cured hay, providing rain and nutrients. Forage cured four to six hours before ensiling supplies vitamin D to prevent rickets when fed at moderate levels to young calves in confinement.
Jade, China's Most Popular Stone Rich in Virtues
Jade remains the preferred stone in China believed to symbolize wisdom justice charity courage and modesty, reflecting cultural values and moral qualities attributed to its use and meaning.
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China
Manitoba highway plan on track despite wet summer
Hon. R. D. Robertson reports Manitoba can finish a 27 million highway program with forty clear days of favorable weather. August progress includes 90 percent prime treatment and 80 percent seal coating. total work up slightly versus last year. He expects 20 days of September and 20 in October to complete all but winter tasks, with November weather providing extra cushion.
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Manitoba
R. d. Robertson
Public Works
Robertson
Stubborn Pigeon Returns to England After 15000 Mile Voyage
Joey, a racing pigeon known for hating the sea, is back in England after a 15000 mile voyage. He landed exhausted on the deck of the freighter Samanco last June as the ship sailed toward South America and refused to leave the air over the water. The Samanco crew now searches for Joey's owner to reclaim the bird.
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Joey
England
Samanco
South America
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Canadian Statistics Report
Food and Agriculture
Bureau
Bunker Hill
Louis St. Laurent
Georgia Strait
B.C. Salvage
Davy Jones
Carrington Bay
Vancouver Island
National Film Board of Canada
Gar Lunney
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