Rubber substitutes from any farm product drive by USDA
The U S Department of Agriculture leads a broad drive to replace scarce materials with agricultural products. Grain chemicals like butylene glycol enable synthetic rubber production, while sweet potatoes, soybeans, and tung oil substitutes expand industrial materials. Officials stress war needs and continued farmer support.
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Department of Agriculture
Peoria
Agriculture Department
Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry and Engineering
Bureau of Plant Industry
Pearl Harbor
China
Far East
Department Scientiate
Ifs
Churchill Plans War Memoir For Victory Publication
The Prime Minister is said to be preparing his own account of the war to appear after victory. He uses a staff of students to research facts and figures, then dictates from notes at a rapid pace. His typed sheets show wide margins and many bold handwriting corrections, awaiting a diplomatically feasible publication time.
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Churchill
Pineapple Doilies Pattern 6990 Inspires Home Decor
A Winnipeg newspaper ad promotes Pineapple Doilies as a simple crochet project. Pattern 6990 offers instructions illustrations and stitches with required materials. Send 26 cents to the Household Arts Department to obtain the pattern and provide name address and pattern number.
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Ays 4
Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Adareas
Famous RAF ace Paddy Finucane dies in Channel crash
Britain mourns Wing Commander Paddy Finucane aged 21 known as Ace of the RAF. The Dublin born pilot credited with 32 aerial kills died during a low level attack on French targets when his Spitfire engine failed after a ground machine gun bullet pierced the radiator. His last words over the radio were believed to be This is it chaps.
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Young Finucane
Dublin
Itriahman
Paddy Finucane
France
England
Paddy
Britain
Buffalo Courier-Express
Pen nib makers shift to munitions in Britain war effort
Coatiam Pen Nibs and Mapping Pens move from the factory roof to munition works and government departments as nine in ten Britain's pen makers switch to war work. Nib production demands skilled, precise labor with up to fourteen operations per nib and even an 85 year old former pen maker now works on aircraft parts alongside peers averaging 69.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Game Factory
Britain
Carta
Mapa
Royal Ordnance Survey
Protection Of Britain Sea Power Echoes In War Message
London Evening Standard argues Britain must retain sea power as the main basis of wartime commerce. It notes American Pacific victories are lauded but warns an island nation without ocean strength risks demise, urging lessons from those triumphs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
United Nations
Pacific
London Evening Standard
Dive Bombers Losses Spur Rethink In WWII Air Strategy
British observers note dive bombers are fading in effectiveness amid new German tactics and improved air defenses. RAF adapts by modifying Curtiss Kitty Hawk fighters into fighter bombers, while Luftwaffe shifts toward fighter-bombers. In Western Desert combat 14 of 15 dive bombers were shot down, underscoring rising risks and the evolving balance between bombers and escorts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brise
Winston Churchill
Royal Air Force
R.A.F
Stuka
Luftwaffe
Western Desert
Rla.f.s
Britain
America
Airmen Read Airmen at Manning Depot Toronto Library
Airmen at Manning Depot Toronto like reading in the intellectual vein with over 17 000 books borrowed in six months from the Toronto public library branch. Of these more than half are non fiction and available titles include navigation stamp collecting poetry mathematics art and dry cleaning with the dictionary in constant demand to settle arguments. Europe and international personalities are also popular and the airmen seem grateful for the service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ronto
Toronto Public Brary
Europe
Heavy Sea and Land Animals Reach Great Size Worldwide
The passage describes diverse animals from sea to stream and land to underground numbering in the millions. It highlights weights from four tons to minuscule sizes, noting the hippopotamus as among the largest with a ten foot stomach and hide about an inch thick.
Working Old Mines: Canadian Engineers Prospect Tin in Cornwall
The Royal Canadian Engineers reopen ancient Cornish tin mines dating to Roman times. A detachment led by Lieut. A. O. Ames of Winnipeg works in Cornwall prospecting and reconditioning shafts. Mines operated 1938 to 1920. Canadian equipment is used. Ames previously mined gold in Canada and Fiji before joining the RCE.
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Cornwall
England
Royal Canadian Engineers
Lieut
A. O. Ames
Winnipeg
Gibraltar
Malaya
Canadiana
Lieut. Ames
Canada
Fiji
The
R.C.E
Stand Severe Test Women In Inoculation Exercise
Joyce Hunnibel, 17, commanded a night spotter post at a gun site and coordinated warming crews for guns and instruments. Other women from a mobile ambulance unit attached to the Home Guard in West Surrey joined a battle in inoculation exercise, firing above crawling soldiers, and all endured the ordeal without flinching.
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Joyce Hunnibel
Home Guard
West Surrey
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United States
Iits
Department
Walter H. Waggoner
Wall Street Journal
Alice Brooks
Darwin
Galapagos Islands
Protection of
Toronto
Manning Depot
Mtt
Revelstoke National Park
Revelstoke
Mt. Revelstoke
Mt. Begble
Mt. MacPherson
Columbia River
Mt. Revelstoke National Park
British Columbia
Italy
Naples
Piazza del Municipio
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