Prices Then and Now The Great War Era Compare 1920s Booms
The Brockville Recorder and Times notes 1920 prices for butter milk eggs lard sugar potatoes and clothes and compares them with postwar price controls. It cites high costs for horses cows hay clothing and coal and argues ongoing price controls have kept current prices reasonable to avert a 1920s style slump.
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Random Radio Finds and Boxing Banter Across Airwaves
A columnist recalls stumbling upon surprising radio moments from a Maple Leaf Hockey Club pep talk to a flamboyant Joe Louis broadcast. The piece contrasts unexpected broadcasts with the steady guidance of sports figures and reflects on aging fighters and looming matchups amid humorous anecdotes.
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Vapor-drying method speeds lumber seasoning
The new process for green oak crossties dries moisture overnight to a level that would take fifteen months to reach by air seasoning, dramatically accelerating lumber preparation.
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Soviet Evangelists Active In Canada
Financial Post reports Canada faces a Russian ideological offensive as a cultural delegation of Soviet editors and artists tours Canadian cities. Mass meetings draw Russophiles and 15 000 attend Edmonton festival. Ukrainians and Russians form Canada’s third largest racial group after British and French.
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No Nation Wants Third World War Warns Lord Strabolei
Lord Strabolei, a Kabee member in the House of Lords, wagers in New York that there will be no third world war. He argues nations do not want or are not ready for war, Europe lacks food for armies, and fear of war’s destruction deters aggression.
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