National Research Council builds trained science force in Canada
The National Research Council has expanded since 1939 with facilities doubled staff and more than six million dollars in peacetime support. It operates 11 laboratories in Canada, advises government departments, coordinates national programs, and funds 162 projects across 23 institutions. Since founding, it has awarded about 1,200 grants totaling roughly $820,000 to some 700 individuals, yielding many doctorates and graduate researchers who stay in Canada.
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National Researth Council
Cooncil
Canada
Wation
Suchields
Council
Nome
England
United States
Australia
China
Russia
Ottawa Citizen
Milk Demand Rise in Canada Postwar, Laura Pepper Says
Laura Pepper of Ottawa chief of the consumer service in the Department of Agriculture told Calgary's National Dairy Council that milk consumption in Canada will rise in the postwar era if quality remains high. She urged greater use of milk given purchasing power and the growing value of dairy products. The report lauded Canada’s role in alleviating world canned milk shortages, noting exports of 26 million pounds in 1939 and over 44 million pounds in 1943.
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Laura ©. Pepper
Ottawa
Consumer Service
Department of Agriculture
Calgary
Canada
National Dairy Council
Schooner Aldebaran Offered For Sale As Govt Reports Hulk Status
The 42 year old schooner Aldebaran once owned by Kaizer Wilhelm 27 is put up for sale by the U S War Shipping Administration. Described as virtually a hulk the vessel still reportedly holds more than 100 tons of gear and salvageable material.
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Kaizer Wilhelm 27
U.S War Shipping Administration
Doenitz Teases New Submarine Threat In Europe
Vancouver Province reports Grand Admiral Doenitz confirming Germany will deploy hundreds of small submarines and motor torpedo boats next spring to interfere with Allied shipping, especially at Antwerp, and to delay Western Allied victory. The article notes a rumored underwater recharging device and cautions against overinterpreting the news.
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Churchill
Roosevelt
Germany
Doenitz
Antwerp
Atlantic
Royal Navy
Kiel
Vancouver Province
Clergyman Fined for Cane Blow on Billeting Officer
An English court fined £5 after an elderly clergyman knocked a billeting officer unconscious with his cane during a quarrel. The Montreal Gazette notes other clergymen advocate gentler, less violent methods to pacify people.
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Montreal Gazette
Largest airplane nears test flight stage at Hughes
Engineers at Hughes Aircraft in Long Beach California push toward test flights of an eight engine cargo transport flying boat. They sought city permission to lease seven acres of land for plane testing facilities on municipal land.
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Hughes Aircraft Company
Long Beach
Cal
Boeing workers raise gift to restore Isobel Beveridge sight
In Vancouver British Columbia Boeing workers pooled 1660 to fund a corneal transplant for Isobel Beveridge a 28 year old University of British Columbia arts graduate and former Catalina rivet bagger The donation announced at the Pacific Athletic Club supports a pioneering coast wide eye surgery with special instruments being prepared and more funds expected Officials praised the act as a remarkable demonstration of unity and humanity
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Boeing
Vancouver
B.C
Isobel Beveridge
University of British Columbia
Catalina
Isobel
Pacific Coast
Pacific Athletic Club
Pete Canavan
Aeronautical Mechanics Lodge
Mr. Canavan
Shakespeare
Miss Beveridge
Cables Arranged for Prisoners of War in Far East
The Canadian Red Cross will pay for cables both ways between Canadian prisoners of war in the Far East and their next of kin in Canada during the coming year. Next of kin may send a cable via the Ottawa Red Cross Inquiry Bureau, but are urged to wait a month or more to avoid cables crossing and causing delays. Canada’s fresh water area covers about 228000 square miles.
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Far East
Canada
Red Cross
Red Cross Inquiry Bureau
Ottawa
Trans-Canada Adds Third Trans-Continental Flight
Trans-Canada Air Lines launches a third trans-continental Montreal to Vancouver service from February 1, doubling passenger capacity with fourteen seat airplanes. Extra crews come from rehabilitated Royal Canadian Air Force personnel who completed training to become pilots on TCA routes. December NY to Toronto service offered 758 seats with 675 filled, an 88.8 percent load. It is noted a milk bottle has a life of about 60 journeys.
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Montreal
Vancouver
TransCanada Air Lines
Royal Canadian Air Force
TCA
Trans-Canada Air Lines
New York
Toronto
Experimental Farm Tests Show Home Grown Seed Best
Dominion researchers report that over three years trials with Vanguard oats Regent wheat and O A C 21 barley across Mapleton Ste Anne Brandon Beaverlodge and Ottawa showed no clear advantage to importing seed. When seed is clean well graded and well suited to local conditions the source location is less important than adaptability and quality.
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Dominion
Mappan
N.S
Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere
P.Q
Ottawa
Brandon
Beaverlodge Peace River District
Alberta
Regent Wheat
O.A.C
Trans-Canada Air Lines pilot elected head of pilots association
A Winnipeg pilot serving with Trans-Canada Air Lines was elected president of the Canadian Airlines Pilots Association at a Montreal meeting. The group, affiliated with British and United States bodies, represents all commercial transport pilots in Canada.
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Trans-Canada Air Lines
Winnipeg
Canadian Airlines Pilots’ Association
Montreal
United States
Canada
Should Not Be Hard The Montreal Gazette Saga
The debt to Canada's fighting men is human, psychological, and spiritual. On return from wars they should be welcomed and valued as they resume peaceful lives, with gratitude, understanding, and recognition of their service and the handicaps they endured.
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Montreal Gazette
Canada
Pineapple Crochet Basket Pattern 7408 Delights Daisies
Instructions and stitches for a pineapple design crochet basket filled with daisies. Pattern 7408 offered by Household Arts Department, Winnipeg Newspaper Union. Send twenty cents in coins to 175 McDermot Avenue E. Winnipeg, Man. Allow extra time for delivery.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
British colour photography aid to plastic surgery history
A British colour photography method by Mr. P. G. Hennel aided plastic surgery and influenced skin pathology development. The text notes vast photographic ranges and ancient Sequoia timelines, mentioning astronomical ranges and vast star counts.
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P. G. Hennel
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L. H. Newman
Dominion Cerealist
Central Experimental Farm
Ptlaws
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Alice Brooks
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