India Dominates World Supplies For Allied War Needs
The article notes India's vast role in supplying tea jute cotton sugar tobacco rubber and oils to Allies. It highlights India's farms and plantations employing millions, its forests and mineral wealth, and the potential of hydro power. It also mentions wartime tea allocations to Britain and Canada.
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India
Canada
Dominion
China
United Kingdom
Russia
British Ministry of Food
British East Africa
Japan
Dutch East Indies
United Nations
Straits Settlements
Passive resistance as a Polish wartime tactic
The piece describes slow-down strikes as a major form of resistance against German occupation. It notes workers in supervised plants slowing work to stretch one hour into many, and citizens painting large chalk or tar turtles with the slogan Work slowly on walls and sidewalks as a visible sign of defiance.
Pretty flowers and birds stitchery pattern 7365
Earn a transfer pattern featuring six motifs about 4 inch by 10 1 4 inches with needlework instructions and materials list. Send twenty cents in coins to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue Winnipeg Man. Include name address and pattern number clearly.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Memorandum Sparks Debate On Ending Preposition
A government department memorandum prompts a pedant to point out the sentence ends with a preposition. The original writer circulates another memo calling the anonymous postscript offensiveImpertinence up with which I will not put.
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Strand Magazine
Torpedoes Sink When Missed to Prevent Hazards
Collier's notes that torpedoes sink to the bottom after missing their target or when engines fail. This automatic sinking safeguards friendly vessels and keeps secret mechanisms from enemy hands.
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Collier's
Untitled Textile Note About Yarn Spinning
A fragment notes that a bottom can be spun so fine that one pound can make 250 miles of yarn. The line ends with the figure 2.78, indicating a measurement or price reference within the clipped text.
A Mile Of Keys In Britain Scrappers Reach Peak Drive
News from Lord Beaverbrook that the United States will run all its acres for war plants spurs Britain to a mass scrap drive. Central and local authorities hunt old iron and steel across farms, homes, and sheds to meet a demand for 40 000 tons weekly.
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Britain
Lord Beaverbrook
United States
Ministry of Works
Advertise Persistently to Compete in War Era Markets
The Amherstburg Echo argues small merchants must advertise aggressively to survive as war industry concentrates in urban hubs. With scarce supplies and crowds drawing people to larger centers, persistent promotion is urged to attract local shoppers and fend off bigger rivals.
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London
Berlin
Mercury: hottest, smallest planet with longest day
Mercury leads as the hottest and smallest planet in the solar system. Its day is longer than its year, making its rotation and orbital dynamics uniquely extreme.
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Solar System
Mercury
Thirteen Year Old Guide Leads Trail Ride Duties
Donna Johnson a 13 year old from Ghost River Alberta served as guide for the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies during the 19th annual Banff trail ride. She saddled and bridled ten horses each morning and managed stirrups cinches and other tack while her father Laurie Johnson, head guide, oversaw duties.
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C.P.R
Canadian Rockies
War Services
Donna Johnson
Banff
Calgary
Miss Johnson
Ghost River
Alberta
Laurie Johnson
Finest Canadian wool used to weave top quality worsted cloth
Canada proves it can produce 100 percent Canadian worsted fabric from home grown wool. A salt length of cloth, colorfully designed, is sent to leaders and ministers to prove the quality. The project links wool growing, combing, spinning, weaving, and finishing as a war effort and postwar plan.
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Canada
Wellington Jeffers
Globe & Mail
Toronto
W. L. MacKenzie King
Leslie Biggin
Canadian Wool Co., Ltd
K. Markon
Wool Combing Corporation of Canada, Ltd
J. W. Downe
Downs
Coulter & Co. (Canada) Ltd
Wool Combing Corp. of Canada
Acton
Ontario
Alberta
Canadian Wool Company
Women MP'S patrol in London dance halls in uniform
In London a growing number of women in uniform join male military police at dance halls and stations to observe behavior, aid girls, and investigate crimes. W A A F and AT S volunteers train eight weeks, wearing blue red armbands or red caps, while WRNs lack MP branches.
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Convent Garden Opera House
London
M.p.’S
M.p.'s
A.T.S
W.A.A.F
Britain
M.P
W.A.A.F. M.P
Air Force
W.r.n.'s
Cartwheel Coppers Recalled To Save Metals In Wartime
The old cartwheel one cent coins are back in circulation as stores and banks reclaim them for reminting. Mint head H E Ewart says demand rises with chocolate and other prices raised by taxes, while the government preserves copper tin and zinc for war munitions.
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Weil
H. E. Ewart
Royal Canadian Mint
Two Canadian-built boats reach Britain after tense Atlantic run
Two new Canadian warships destined for the Royal Navy crossed the Atlantic from Canada's east coast. They dodged Nazi U-boats on their voyage and hunted a submarine within two days of departure from their New Brunswick towns. Both encounters ended with flying colors.
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Canada
Royal Navy
Atlantic
United Kingdom
New Brunswick
Monument to Tree Placed by Pioneer Memorial Group
Brigham Young and Mormon pioneers entered the Valley of Great Salt Lake in 1847 to find one tree a mountain cedar. A monument to the tree, now dead and embedded in concrete, was erected by a pioneer memorial association.
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Brigham Young
Valley
Great Salt Lake
Pioneer Memorial Association
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U.S
St. Paul's Cathedral
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