British Engine Repair Factory Described As a Hospital
A British engine repair works in the Home Counties is profiled as a hospital for aircraft engines. Engines arrive for reception inspection, then are cleaned by baths and lard oil tanks, with parts examined on three-tier trolleys before final testing. The plant employs many women and features staff including George Ladbrooke and Ronnie Wilson, plus a diverse cadre of workers. Life insurance sales in Canada rise 10 percent in 1941’s first nine months to $295,019,000.
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Home Counties
England
Britain
George Ladbrooke
Duke of Windsor
Ronnie Wilson
Great Britain
Suffolk
Thomas Beecham
Henry Wood
Canada
Jealousy Sparks Fight Over Beard In Island Affair
Julie Hathaway and John Baxter clash when Elliott Morgan and Nellie Woods publish a book on jealousy. A chain of schemes ends with John and Elliott punching each other unconscious on a porch, revealing John's envy. Julie learns he is jealous and finally wins his affection.
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Julie Hathaway
John
Baxter College
New York
Julie
Elliott Morgan
Nellie Woods
Nellie
Elliott
Eliott
Eilcott
Baxter
Morgan
Makepeace Liveright
New Year Dinner Menu and Cooked Cranberry Juice Recipe
A 1942 New Year dinner menu with recipes for cranberry juice served as sherbet, roast goose with savoury dressing and apple rings, plus giblet gravy, mashed turnips with egg and butter, and a date for simmering raisins and apples with orange rind and spices.
Not So Wonderful RAF runs toward London bomb damage tale
An RAF tale recounts Hitler and Goering flying over London at dawn to inspect bomb devastation. Goering piloted briefly before Hitler slept and awoke to a city largely destroyed, with his exclamation of wonder followed by more sleeping.
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R.A.F
Hitler
Goering
London
United States Burgeoning Birth Rate Reported
Census officials say the U S birth boom is the greatest since 1921 with about 2.5 million babies expected this year. The stork makes a delivery every 14 seconds, faster than the undertaker’s 23 second call, as Dr. Philip Hauser notes postwar effects and long-term demographic trends.
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Census Bureau
United States
Philip Hauser
Dr. Hauser
Bees in France ration hive sugar for winter
France allocates 75 tons of sugar to agriculturists for feeding 75 million bees through the winter until spring flowers bloom. Authorities will inspect sugar use to prevent theft, while bees are kept from hunger until fruit trees and apples bloom.
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France
All English Mothers Put On Diet From Toronto Plan
During a Canada visit Sir Wilson Jameson announced England would adopt a Toronto Diet for pregnant women to reduce infant deaths. He praised The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto for its nutrition work, noting 9,000 treated in wards and 73,000 outpatient visits in the past year.
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Canada
Sir Wilson Jameson
Ministry of Health
England
Britain
Toronto
Wilson
Children’s Hospital
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British Hospital For Air Engines
H. D. G. Crerar
Petawawa
Crerar
Victor W. Odlum
Australia
K. Stuart
Aber Lalkki
Sadie B. Chambers
New-York
Jerry Brondfield
Stork
Miss Chambers
West Adelaide Street
Ontario
North America
Toronto Federation
Community Service
Pcal
Ae Hospital For
College Street
Loronto
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