Aerial Bombing Tactics Described as Precise Science
The article explains that air bombing is a highly scientific process driven by precise timing and calculations. It details how bombs follow a level initial path, then a vertical descent, with wind, speed, altitude, and navigator sighting shaping the trajectory. It notes typical values like ten thousand feet altitude, two hundred mph speed, and a release point ahead of the target.
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Faithfuly
Hitler
Hamilton Spectator
The Park Lane Mystery in London Parliament
Jim Carlton and Elk track Sir Joseph Layton after a dramatic Commons speech declaring government France tension and mobilization plans. The chase leads to Whitehall, Park Lane, and a shaken cabinet as officials seek to verify the extraordinary claim. The Bonn incident spat and a looming political crisis unfold through late night inquiries.
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Carlton
Elk
Gay Park Lane
Westminster
Jim
Speaker
France
Bonn
Foreign Office
Joseph
Sir Joseph
England
Admiralty
Palace Yard
Whitehall Gardens
Whitehall
Park Lane
Harlow’s
Greenhart House
Harlow
Parliament
Paris
Sir Joseph Layton
Joseph Layton
House of Commons
Agricultural Trade With UK Tied To War Demands
The Current Review notes Canada largely ships agricultural goods to the United Kingdom and that demand depends on the war and UK policy on food, shipping, and exchange. It cites negotiated agreements with the UK on bacon cheese eggs and poultry while UK wheat imports come from the open market and the Wheat Board.
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Canada
United Kingdom
Wheat Board
U S Planes Transferred to Canada for Training Use
Canada has acquired about two dozen former United States Northrup attack planes released to France before its fall. The obsolete aircraft will support advanced training under the Commonwealth air training scheme and operate alongside Harvard trainers due to a shortage of those planes.
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Canada
United States Army Air Corps
France
U.S. Army Air Corps
New Meat Diet Study Upsets Heat Rule in Weather
Experiments reported in Detroit by the American Chemical Society show eating lean meat and protein as usual is better for staying cool, while limiting starch sugar and fat. Dr E B Forbes of Pennsylvania State College notes that when proteins fats and sugars are fed together meat does not produce excess heat as once thought.
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American Chemical Society
Detroit
E B Forbes
Institute of Animal Nutrition
Pennsylvania State College
Forbes
How to Budget and Buy for Better Living
A home budgeting guide promises to stretch income and reduce heavy bills. It recommends planned spending to handle large occasional expenses, taxes, dentist bills, and house repairs, with a sample family budget of 125 dollars monthly and 10 dollars weekly for food. A 15 cent booklet from Winnipeg Newspaper Union offers step by step apportioning of income and tips on buying and saving, plus other 15 cent booklets on topics like indoor plants and dream meanings.
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Home _ Service Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Canadian Research Council elects president in Ottawa meeting
The Canadian Research Council in Social Science held in Ottawa elected Prof. R. G. Trotter of Queen’s University Kingston as president. The council will have 16 representatives from social science branches with varied terms to promote research and new ideas. Executive appointees include J E Robbins secretary treasurer and professors H A Innis F C Cronkite and C A Dawson.
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Canadian Research Council In Social Science
Ottawa
R. G. Trotter
Queen's University
Kingston
J. E. Robbins
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
H. A. Innis
University of Toronto
F. C. Cronkite
University of Saskatchewan
C. A. Dawson
McGill University
Montreal
Sinking ships settle directly below sunk location
The passage notes that ships sink and settle to the bottom almost immediately beneath where they were sunk, unless a sub-ocean current intersects the area.
War Expansion In Canadian Industry
Canada expands industrial development with more than 190 plants under government program Dow funds totaling about 180 million dollars to meet growing war needs. The piece contrasts German captivity with the resilience of British resolve and notes varied uses of armor and lie detectors in U.S. police work.
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Canada
Dow
Dutch Worker Satirized Hitler Faces 18 Months
A Dutch worker in Utrecht was sentenced to a year and a half in prison by a German court for stating that Queen Wilhelmina’s words should be respected more than German propaganda. The court ruled the remark an insult to Adolf Hitler and to the German people.
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Wilhelmina
Hitler
Netherlands
Utrecht
Adolf Hitler
Disraeli Prophecy and England's Ties to the New World
A 1859 prophecy attributed to Disraeli, cited by Mrs. I. Davey in the London Times, argues England is not merely a European power but linked to the New World by tradition, ties of language, law, religion, and colonizing history. The piece suggests Europe’s decline would not endanger England’s future but would prompt a stronger role for Britain across the Atlantic.
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Disraeli
England
Europe
New World
Mrs. I. Davey
London Times
Gems of Thought Portraits of Greatness and Endurance
A collection of aphorisms on greatness and character from Samuel Johnson Mary Baker Eddy Canon Scott Holland Maltbie D Babock Elbert Hubbard and others. It contrasts striving for applause with merit and notes how daily life tests character as stars shine in darkness.
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God
Mary Baker Eddy
Canon Scott Holland
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