Six Times Daily Korean Air Lift To Front Lines
Six times daily, crews from McChord Field and the Thunder Birds move 34 American soldiers per flight on four engined transports. The long route, 5000 miles, carries troops toward Japan and eventual combat readiness as Canada joins the Korean air lift effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mcchord Field
Wash
Canada
RCAF
Thunderbird
Japan
Mount Rainier
R‘laf
Military Air Transport Service
Haneda
Anchorage
Alaska
Shimya
Aleutian Chain
Haneda Field
Tokyo
Sqd. Lar
Howie Morrison
Lauder
Man
North Atlantic
Siberia
Winter redecorating tips from paint swatches to room flow
Practical advice for planning winter redecorations at home. Focus on matching color schemes to existing furniture, lighting, and room features while testing colors under natural light. Step by step, prepare by inventorying repairs, caulking, and coordinating adjacent rooms for a unified look.
Oddball miscellany hints at quirky science and culture
A mosaic of curiosities covers insects resisting radiation, duck migration, rain making, football scholarships for drum majorettes, and a garden seed claim. Anecdotes touch on a nephew musician, Lone Ranger, adobe pueblo walls, and Paris fashion designers seeking briefer bathing suits.
Banana republic banker thwarted by president over engine orders
A Latin American businessman reportedly wrote a letter ordering an engine capable of a thousand revolutions a minute. Government agents intercepted the letter and he was summoned by El President, who remarked that one revolution a day could be managed but a thousand revolutions a minute was too much.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Banana Republics
el President
Soviet Rearmament to Peak in 1953 54
Soviet military buildup is expected to reach its highest level in 1953 and 1954 with intensified production and deployment of arms and equipment. The projection notes major expansion in industrial capacity and mobilization across strategic forces.
Abolishes Sickness With Hormones Cortisone and ACTH
Harvard physician Dr. Peter H. Forsham describes cortisone and ACTH as giving “chemical magic” to abolish disease symptoms while illness persists. He cites pneumonia and eye diseases where inflammation is blocked and stresses temporary relief in ongoing stimuli.
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Chicago
Peter H. Forsham
Harvard University Medical School
American Chemical Society
Dr. Forsham
Forsham
Tomb Inspection Ceremony Perseveres Since 1794 in Sutton
In Sutton Surrey England the annual rite sees seven corpses from James Gibson's family checked in a large stone tomb. Begun in 1794 to deter body snatchers, the ritual includes Mary Gibson's 1777 will provisions for a sermon, parish payments, and a yearly August 12 opening to confirm order and protection of the remains.
Londoners Pick From 500 Evening Classes
London County Council offers more than 500 courses for day or evening study including barge-building lip reading pigeon-keeping and puppetry. The prospectus boasts we teach everything but crime and notes over 300000 workers enrolled last year with higher numbers expected this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
London County Council
Prospectus
Tawney’s simple life in hen houses surprise peers
Oxford memory notes Professor R H Tawney honorary fellow of Balliol. When his London home was blitzed and no building permit possible he bought two hen houses to share with his wife. He quipped he never knew hens lived so luxuriously.
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Oxford
Eng
R. H. Tawney
Balliol
Diogenes
Tawney
London
Fair Haired Boy To Locksmiths Pick Proof Lock Invented In Penitentiary
Frank, a Vancouver convict who spent seven and a half years out of jail since 1924, claims a working model of a twin master lock created in the penitentiary blacksmith shop. The lock uses thousands of combinations and a 30 degree cylinder turn to resist picks. He previously patented a different design in the mid forties with a Vancouver baker but it saw no production. Vancouver police would welcome the effort to fund his future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank
Penitentiary
Jimmy
Vancouver
The Clock That Strikes Thirteen
A Britain tale notes how tradition leads to a clock that strikes thirteen at 1 PM. An Earl’s mine building and later a church tower both adopted the 13 chime, aimed at ending lunchhour idling and signaling work resumption.
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Larry Smith
Britain
Manchester
National Coal Board
Earl
Proper Fitting Of Childs Shoe Is Important
A study of 4,000 elementary students by Elizabeth Hammond of the Canadian Shoe Information Bureau finds most children wear shoes too small. Nearly 3,000 are underfit by half to three and a half sizes, with holes in toe ends. Proper fitting requires about three quarters of an inch growing room, snug heel grip, and about a quarter inch wider width.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Hammond
Canadian Shoe Information Bureau
Stamp Corner highlights railway stamps from many nations
James Montagnes surveys railway themed stamps from Canada Belgium Austria Newfoundland United States and more. He notes trains on issues from 1869 to 1948 including commemoratives and pictorials. mentions collectors and a Canada 100th anniversary plan and an ad for stamp sales through Mr. Pratt Kuhn in Toronto.
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Southern
Rhodesia
Netherlands
Belgian
Austria
Newfoundland
United States
Countries
New Brunswick
Belgian Congo
Egypt
International Railway Congress
Bulgaria
Boris
France
Germany
Holland
India
Southwest
Africa
Southern Rhodesia
North Borneo
Canada
Great Britain
Pratt Kuhn
Wellington St. W
Toronto
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Central Press
Zadok Dumkopf
Junior
New Mexico
Style Capital
City of Ottawa
England
Far East
Ellerman and Bucknall Steamship Company Limited
Ottawa
E. A. Bourque
R. J. Ricketts
W. R. Eakin
McLean Kennedy Limited
Montreal
Line
Marcus
The
New York Times
James Montagnes
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