Britain tightens food controls and war efforts abroad
Britain's transport and defense measures expand as food import limits bite Eire travellers face restrictions while requisition aims to curb domestic shortages. Overseas airmen train in Britain and Greek navy orders grow as Wing Commander Max Aitken earns the DSO. The Peterhof palace is destroyed, US shipyards hit a new steel ship record, and Dutch hostages rise amid Nazi actions. Canal barges recruit hundreds of women, while Japanese beetle infiltration worries agriculture officials.
Unknown Norwegian Hero Objected To Nazi Propaganda Film
The story recalls a Norwegian man who watched a German propaganda film in Trondheim. When a scene showed Nazi soldiers passing out food, he cried out from the darkness that the film was being shown backward, highlighting his decisive stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newegian
Stockholm
Trondheim
Cotton cavalcade pattern 4124 by Anne Adams
Pattern 4124 offers a skirt revers sleeves with optional banding or ric rac. A sleeveless version exists. Available in misses sizes 17 14 16 15 and 20. Size 16 requires 34 yards 35 inch fabric and 1 2 yard contrast. Send 20 cents for pattern to Anne Adams pattern service, Winnipeg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Newfoundland skipper taunts carrier with improvised gun story
A wartime Newfoundland commander, then a young lieutenant, helped a corvette near a St Lawrence port survive a danger zone by mounting a trimmed telephone pole as a fake four inch gun. The tale ends with the carrier reproving the corvette, and the officer later becomes a commander.
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Ous
Newfoundland
St. Lawrence
Leutenant
Atlantic
Canada
Britain
Heutenant
Royal Navy
American airmen learn Spitfires in Ireland despite tea breaks
Young American airmen at a training base in Ireland learn to fly Spitfires under RAF instructors. They joke about tea time vs TNT, while a Cleveland lieutenant questions pauses for tea. An American doctor aboard praises tea as a chance to rest and share ideas. Most students quickly rack up flight hours and regard the Spitfire as an excellent combat aircraft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
R.A.F
Lieut
Gene Keyes
Cleveland, O
Sraid
RCAF
No. 3 Wireless School
R.C.A.F
Winnipeg
Manitoba
J. A. Davidson
Neepawa
Kmeeling
H. A. Wilson
J. Crossley
Minnedosa
H. C. Ray
C. P. Tyler
J. M. McGillivray
Selected Recipes Fruit Au Gratin
Fruit halves are rolled in crushed corn flakes then baked in butter served with a lemon spice sauce. Sauce combines sugar cornstarch fruit juice butter lemon juice nutmeg and salt for a lightly thickened citrus glaze.
Scientists note jaw length differences across races
William Ferguson reports that scientists observe the right jaw side tends to be longer than the left in all races. He muses on old times when the tank was simply a water container for watering horses, likening it to earlier technology.
Survival of Czechs through wars and rise of united nations
The article recalls Bohemia during the Thirty Years War and World War I, noting severe losses and cultural destruction but eventual endurance. It asserts Czechs will survive new ordeals and, with other United Nations, help topple Hitler's Third Reich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bohemia
Czeech
Hapsburgs
Navns
Third Reich
Hitler
Austria- Hungary
Czecho-Slovakia
Wooden tires roll into Halifax streets with mixed results
Halifax taxis test wooden tires made of birch sections bolted together costing 41.95 each. An official noted they didn’t turn out well despite a good ride and said the noise was something awful. The trial aims to keep in service taxis sidelined by rubber tire restrictions.
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Halifax
Peaceful Heir of Isaac Finds Wells of Gerar
Sunday school lesson recounts Isaac’s refusal to quarrel with Philistines over water rights. He re-dug Abraham’s wells, named Esek Sitnah and Rehoboth, choosing patience over conflict. The text underscores yielding peace as a path to God’s room and blessing in the land. The topaz note closes the lesson.
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Isaac
Abraham
Abimelech
Gerar
Hebron
Beersheba
Lot
Tenac
Esek
Rehoboth
Dividends from Health in Industry Promises Savings
An article in Health Magazine argues sickness, not strikes, causes most absenteeism in wartime industry. It cites Canada’s nine and a half lost workdays per worker annually, totaling about 75 million dollars in lost production, and shows health measures cut losses by up to 50 percent. It calls for pre employment medical exams, ongoing health maintenance, accident prevention education, and better working conditions.
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Canada
Division of Industrial Hygiene
Department of Pensions and National Health
Ottawa
Victor G. Heiser
National Associations of Manufacturers
United States
The
Health League of Canada
Also Mentioned on This Page
Brefly
Eire
Perty
R.c.ap
British Broadcasting Corporation
CHC
Cmdr
Max Aitken
Lord Beaverbrook
Peterhof Palace
Peter the Great
Gulf of Finland
Leningrad
Aneta
Netherlands
Agriculture Department
Plant Protection Division
Gay Young "Cotton
Brazil
By William Ferguson
Beatrice
Neebr
Moon & Sun
Huntington
Indiana
By Fred Neher
Topazas
Red Sea
Reg
Pinhead
Gene Byrnes
Wealth' League
Health
Mickie
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