Fighting Canada's Battles In Northern Manitoba And Saskatchewan
A Canadian mining town of Flin Flon details employee representation by the Employes Welfare Board, trades and promotion paths from muckers to foremen, safety programs, medical care, and year round work. It notes a large mine with diverse jobs, a strong community, and continued discussion between workers and the Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. P. de Wet
Manitoba Chamber of Mines
Exployeen Centre Welfare Board
Fire Fien
Flin Fien
Robert Service
Yukon
Lou
Flin Flon
Manitoba
Welfare Board
National Safety Council of America
St. John Ambulance Association
Fin Flon
Flin Fion
Surface and Transportation Department
Bull Gang
Ten-week town builds vast British supply depot
In ten weeks a small group of Royal Engineers officers have transformed 200 acres of cornfields pastures trees and hedges into a sprawling supply depot for the American Army in Britain. The site features towering sheds and linked roads as a major wartime logistical hub.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Engineers
Britain
World Happenings Briefly Told From Across Canada and Beyond
Alberta led fur sales last year with over 5 million dollars, mink alone at 1.7 million. A 21-year-old Glasgow seaman kept a blood donor date though delayed three months after being torpedoed. Mrs Churchill says the Aid to Russia Fund neared 4.5 million pounds. Canada had 72 milk product factories in 1942. Over 2,567 POWs in Canada work camps, war department says the project runs well. Britain held 357,630 Italian POWs as of November 15. New airgraph station opened in Calcutta serving Bengal and nearby provinces. US army ends discharge forms with a single document to resume civilian life.
Wise Men Seek Infant Jesus in Bethlehem Lesson
Sunday School lesson notes recount the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem during Herod's reign and the visitation of the Wise Men from the East. They describe the Magi as learned men, the Star, Herod's fear, the gifts of gold frankincense and myrrh, and the warning dream that the Magi should not return to Herod. The piece notes Greek origins of mathematics in Thales' school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesus
Herod the Great
Bethlehem
Judea
Matthew
Caspar
Melchoir
Balthazar
Kepler
Arabia
Persia
Herod
Jerusalem
Army engineers build mahogany road with aluminum surface
Radio News reports U S Army engineers in Dutch Guiana constructed a highway on a mahogany base with an aluminum surface. The materials chosen reflect local availability and cost, citing Dutch Guiana as possessing rich aluminum ore deposits and abundant mahogany timber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Radio News
United States Army
Dutch Guiana
First Australian wheat silos built at Cockatoo in 1839
The first wheat silos in Australia were carved from rock at Cockatoo in 1839 and fashioned like large botties, marking an early attempt at stone storage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Cockatoo
Royal Navy Stops Big Ocean Imports From Pre-War Sources
The Royal Navy blocked German imports from pre war sources across air and sea fronts in Britain’s fight against Germany. It cut off essential supplies by stopping 8 percent of cotton, 98 percent of maize, 99 percent of natural phosphates. Chinese writings of 3 000 years ago mention banana cultivation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Germany
Royal Navy
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Canada
Northen
Saskatchewan
Winnipeg
St. Boniface
Brandon
Flin Flow
Man
By Fred Neher
Pop
Alberta
Mink
Glasgow
BBC
Churchill
Labor Department
War Office
United Kingdom
Dominions
Calcutta
Bengal
Assam
Bihar
Orissa
God
Greece
School of
Thales
Mahogany Road
Athena
Wolframite
France
Ireland
aluAr
Egypt
Rome
Fis
By William Ferguson
Manhattan
SOA
SER
Y. M. Reg
U. & Pat. Off
Jimmie Lynch
Reg'lar
Gen’ral
Gene Byrnes
CORP
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