Commercial Aviation in Canada Devoted to War Effort
Canada’s commercial aviation has become a war machine, with ninety percent of the industry tied to wartime work. Merged services boost output with similar staffing and equipment, while freight and passenger space are scarce. Civil aviation aids the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and supplies pilots, engineers, and aircraft work to the RCAF and allied commands.
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Canada
Royal Canadian Air Force
Trans-Canada Airlines Instrument Repair
Winnipeg
R.c.af
R.C.A.F
Royal Air Force
Ferry Command
Dominion
Haileybury
Ont
Rouyn
Que
Bananas scarce at home as war disrupts ships
American soldiers in the British Isles report missing bananas, noting ship diversions due to the Uboat campaign. The St Thomas Times Journal recalls North America’s long banana imports, highlighting a recent 7,400-ton cargo ship launched in Texas and tracing the fruit’s ancient origins from India to Jamaica before reaching the continent seven years ago.
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British Isles
St. Thomas
Beaumont
Texas
India
Jamaica
Old Light Bulbs Recycle Metals For War Purposes
Burnt out light bulbs contain copper brass and zinc used to support war needs. The copper and brass from a thousand bulbs provide metal for forty compasses. Zinc from the same supply yields material for twenty three 37 millimeter shells.
Artemus Ward Real Name Revealed
The article confirms Charlies Farrar Browne as the real name of the famed author known as Artemus Ward.
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Charlies Farrar Browne
Plastic Army Cap Badges Replace Metal In War Effort
Britain's plastics industry supplies one million cap badges that need no polishing. The badges, made from cellulose acetate, save solder and metal, and can equip an entire division in two to three days. Ten badges weigh one ounce, saving five times the metal weight.
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Britain
British Industries Bulletin
Goebbels On Invasion Strategy and British War Plans
The extract argues that Europe will see a long war with German forces advancing toward Berlin and taking British troops as prisoners. It suggests welcoming a large British invasion and even bringing Americans, while declaring Europe forbidden for Yankees. The text also contrasts WWI aircraft speeds with expectations for future warfare.
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Goebbels
Europe
Das Reich
Berlin
Britain
Must Have Ration Book Indians Are Under Regulation
The ration book rules apply to Canadian Indians in tea purchases and daily supplies. Indians must present coupons before buying tea with special northern arrangements for Eskimos and remote posts. Indian agents act as retailers and must account for distributions like city storekeepers.
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Plains
Striking 1652 Albany Boundary by Cannon Barrage
Peter Stuyvesant fired a northward and a southward cannon shot to define Albany's limits in 1652. He claimed all land between the blasts as the city’s jurisdiction, marking an unusual method of establishing municipal boundaries.
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Albany
New York
Peter Stuyvesant
German Exploitation of Holland Reported by Nazi Newspaper
Reichmarshal Goering’s Essener National Zeitung asserts Dutch industries supplied 30 million reichsmarks worth of products to Germany in two years of occupation. It breaks down 30 percent shipping, 20 percent electrical, 15 percent heavy machinery, 10 percent aircraft, and 25 percent building supplies textiles wood pulp and chemicals.
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Holland
Reichmarshal Hermann Goering
Essener National Zeitung
Netherlands
Germany
Advertising in a free society essential, says Vancouver Sun
The Vancouver Sun argues advertising fuels peacetime innovation and consumer access, enabling new products, industries, and scientific advances. It asserts wartime needs require government campaigns and morale drives, while a slave society bans questions and advertising.
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Jones
Vancouver Sun
Height and weight trends show growing future generations
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics surveys 78 000 Toronto elementary pupils find average heights and weights rising 2 to 5 percent across ages seven to eighteen. Comparisons with Britain the United States and Glasgow reveal persistent gains and regional disparities in youth stature and mass.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Toronto
Britain
United States
Australian airman with VC towers above rival bravado
In a hotel rotunda two Australian airmen clash over feats and flights. The quiet sergeant pilot, James Allen Ward of the R A A F, shows the VC on his tunic while the bragging colleague is humbled by Ward’s final leave before his death. The tale appears in Eric Baume’s book I Lived Another Year.
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V.C
James Allen Ward
R.A.A.F
Eric Baume
England
Toronto Telegram
Germany Builds Air Power Before World War II
The German air force was not officially established until February 26, 1935, but by the outbreak of war four years later it had become more powerful than the combined air forces of England, France, and Poland.
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Germany
England
France
Poland
Tai-keuk Meaning Flag Title for Korea
The term Tai-keuk translates to the supreme or greatest flag for Korea, reflecting its ceremonial and symbolic stature. The phrase emphasizes peak status and national pride associated with the Korean banner.
We re In The Army Now In Stitchery Too
Reminder of embroidery motifs for six designs averaging 5 by 7 inches. Pattern 7373 includes transfer patterns, materials list, and stitch illustrations. Send twenty cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermott Avenue E Winnipeg Man with name address and pattern number.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermott Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Norway’s Fishing Industry Struggles After Nazi Plunder
The Norwegian government in Montreal warns that Nazi raids have decimated the nation’s once vast fishing fleet. Prewar Norway boasted about 80,000 vessels and 120,000 fishermen, but months of plunder have left the country with only a small ration of fish for its own people.
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Norway
Montreal
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