Canada Extends Soviet Mine Payoff Through 1951
Canada and the Soviet Union agreed a 15 month extension in the $20 million Petsamo Mines compensation payments. The revised pact runs to Dec 31 1951 with 10 equal instalments of $1,166,650, USD valued at $35 per ounce of gold, replacing earlier seven instalments.
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Canada
United States
Petsamo
Finland
External Affairs Department
Laurent Beaudry
M. V. Deguar
Mond Nickel Company
International Nickel Company of
Russia
Moscow's eight hundredth birth day marked by myth and war
The article outlines Moscow's founding by Prince George Dolgoruki circa 1156 and notes the Kremlin's site. It recounts repeated invasions and fires, including Tartars in 1237 and 1293, Crimean capture in 1547, Napoleon's 1812 occupation, and 1917 Bolshevik street fighting, framing Moscow's enduring endurance and monumental architecture.
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Moscow
George Dolgoruki
Rostov
Kremlin
Crimea
Napoleon
Tommy Seeks Meaning of Sufficient in Cat Milk Lesson
A teacher explains sufficient with a cat and saucerful of milk. Tommy answers that sufficient means a catful of milk, illustrating a humorous misinterpretation. The article also notes dragon lizards feed on deer, wild boar and water buffalo.
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Tommy
Need More Than To Sell Scenery To Develop Tourist Business
Ottawa reports at the Dominion Provincial Tourist Conference that Canada must build better roads, lodging, hotels, and restaurants to attract repeat visitors. Dr. J. J. McCann and D. Leo Dolan urge twelve month tourism, with winter attractions, and wider use of US exchange to fund growth. Ministers from Ontario, Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan attend, pledging support for sustained advertising and facility improvements.
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Ottawa
Canada
J. J. McCann
Dominion
Dr. McCann
D. Leo Dolan
Canadian Travel Bureau
United States
Delano
Quebec
Ontario
Alberta
Arthur Welsh
Harold Connolly
Nova Scotia
L. H. Eyres
British Columbia
J. G. MacDiarmid
Manitoba
C. M. Fines
Saskatchewan
Dolan
Press of
McCann
Sugar Saving Tips For Cooking Fruit
Add sugar after fruit cooks to keep fruit tender and flavors bright. Wash dried fruits thoroughly before cooking and soak them in water to cover before stewing, or cook unsoaked in a slow oven with the pot tightly covered.
First fumigation traced to Acron in ancient Athens
Historical note attributes innovation to Acron a Greek physician around 473 B C who used burning aromatics to halt a plague in Athens. The fragmentary source mentions the method and dates but lacks full corroboration.
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Acron
Athens
Vegetarian Society Campaign Amid Meat Shortage
In London the London Vegetarian Society with 1000+ members launches a campaign to win more adherents to a meat free diet as Britain's meat shortage grows. The plan includes inviting cabinet ministers to a vegetarian luncheon to show wholesome meals without fish or flesh. Members say vegetarians receive extra rations of butter margarine and cheese as meat substitutes. A housewife notes the need to be vegetarian five days a week to cover the remaining days.
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London
Britain
London Vegetarian Society
Unusual Honor for Meritorious Service
In 1928 the late Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell was named the fifth honorary knight for life of the Loyal Knights of the Round Table. This rare honor is limited to 128 members and recognizes distinguished service to humanity. The four predecessors were Thomas A. Edison, Charles Evans Hughes, Andrew Millikan, and Luther Burbank.
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Wilfred T. Grenfell
Knights of the Round Table
Round Table
Arthur
Grenfell
Thomas A. Edison
Charles Evans Hughes
Andrew Millikan
Luther Burbank
Seaway Seen By U S Engineers Ending War Earlier
United States engineers told the Canadian travel association convention that the St Lawrence Seaway could have shortened the war, enabling greater food and material flow from the central United States and Canada and reducing rail hauls to the eastern seaboard. Garth Cate, chair of a national travel committee, spoke on the potential impact.
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Charlottetown
United States
St. Lawrence Seaway
Garth Cate
National Association of United States
Canadian Association of Travel and Publicity Bureaux
St. Lawrence
Canada
Seaboard
How One Engineer Solved His Problem
An engineer facing a large black locust on his property used a nickel-chromium alloy wire heated red hot. He threaded the wire around the trunk in a semicircle and pulled it back and forth with weights until the tree fell neatly near the ground.
Keeping Pipeline Undersea Fuel Link Core to War Defense
The main underground installation of Pluto the undersea pipeline that kept a non stop flow of fuel from base to frontline units during the war will remain part of Britain s national defence system.
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Pluto
Britain
Chinese farmers grow 3800 people per square mile
Careful soil tending yields a dense rural population, with one square mile supporting about 3,800 people.
Newcomers Find No Trouble In Obtaining Work
Toronto reports ease in placing English immigrants and newcomers in Ontario jobs. Examples include Ronald Mathews from Dublin finding housing and work, a pilot trained under the Commonwealth Air Training Plan quickly gaining employment, and newcomers joining pulp and paper firms, farming, lumber, teaching, and construction roles across Ontario.
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Toronto
Canada
Ronald Mathews
Dublin
Eire
Ontario
National Employment Service
Ottawa
Newman
Port Hope
Ont
Trinity College School
James Lally
Essex
Sunnybrook Military Hospital
Hubert Hall
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission
Joseph Round
Wolverhampton
Predicts Fashions To Calm Down Predicts Fashions To Calm Down
Toronto reports Madame Marguerite, a Canadian by 19 years in the country, says fashion will calm with a chic short head, soft waves, snug hats, draped chignons, and braids for evening styles. She criticizes Parisian hair and notes long skirts retreating for bow-legged figures. India’s mills rank among the world’s largest.
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Toronto
Marguerite
Swissberg
Paris
Madame Marguerite
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Attlee
Sir Stafford Cripps
Herbert Morrison
Philip Noel- Baker
Arthur Greenwood
John Wilmot
Lords
James Harold Wilson
Board of Trade
Vicky
London News Chronicle
Vegetarian Society
U.K
India
William G. Palmer
Ented
Guelph
Judy Hillman
Palmer
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