World Happenings Briefly Told From Across the War
Australis to ship 500 060 tons of four to England requiring 25 000 000 bushels of wheat. British munition output in early 1942 up 49 percent from 1952. Britain’s farmers union rejects a 1944 presidential candidate proposal. A committee studies training horses for service in colonies. Army engineers unveil a 40 acre per hour lawn mower for airfields. Nazi ravaging of Norway’s forests threatens its chief industry’s future. Field Marshal Jan Smuts wins the Woodrow Wilson award for distinguished service. A Wembley match brings 57 500 dollars toward Red Cross war relief, part of a 1 000 000 pounds goal.
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Australis
England
Chocolate study shows vitamins can be added to treats
Seventeen girls aged eight to twelve in five English orphanages completed a year long trial consuming an ounce of chocolate daily to test vitamin and mineral delivery. One group had plain milk chocolate, the other chocolate fortified with vitamins calcium and iron. Results showed no significant difference between groups, suggesting chocolate is a viable carrier for nutrients.
Apron Pattern 4590 with Initial Transfer Included
Ad for Anne Adams Pattern 4590 featuring initials transfer and two button back closure. Available sizes small, medium, large with yardage details and price. mail orders to Winnipeg Pattern Dept. at 17 McDermot Ave. E. Winnipeg Man. Delays noted due to slow mail.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg
McDermot Ave
Man
Naual
Nazi Medals and London Broadcast Revealed History Making Item
A London broadcast unveils a history making piece linked to the Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, tracing Nazi medals and related artifacts that marked a notable moment in wartime symbolism and propaganda.
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London
Fuehrer
Hitler
Forty Years Of Flying Highlights Canada’s Air Rise
The article traces aviation progress from the 1903 Wright brothers flight at Kitty Hawk to Canada’s first 1909 flight by J A D McCurdy in Baddeck Nova Scotia. It notes Trans-Canada Air Lines flying nearly 5,000 miles of routes and over 8 million miles yearly, with Lancasters in wartime service carrying passengers, mails, and cargo.
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Wright Brothers
Canada
Baddeck
N.S
J. A. D. McCurdy
Trans-Canada Air Lines
Intensive Agricultural Training Expanded in Russia
Pravda reports new nationwide efforts to boost grain output with 3,000,000 trainees for collective farm chairmen and brigade leaders. Winter work continues with emphasis on early scientific sowing and stricter spring targets for farms that underperformed this autumn.
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Communist Party
Pravda
Origin of word jeep linked to GP marked Army car
The New York Sun reports American Note and Queries offers a plausible origin for the term jeep. The first quarter ton combat car by American Bantam Car Co reached Camp Holabird Maryland in 1938 marked GP and Army drivers and mechanics took it from there.
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New York Sun
American Bantam Car Company
Camp Holabird
Maryland
Army
Deputy Atlee Named Deputy Prime Minister in Churchill Absence
With Churchill ill it may fall to Clement Atlee to take on some prime ministerial duties. Atlee is acting as deputy prime minister and could temporarily assume functions as needed.
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Winston Churchill
Churchill
Clement Atlee
Mars Flying Boat Converts Flawed Bomber to Transport
The Mars flying boat, once deemed too slow as a bomber, set a 4,375 mile non stop record from Maryland to Brazil and carried 35,000 pounds of freight. It lifted a total of 148,500 pounds aloft with further records noted. The machine’s shift from failure in one role to success in another is highlighted as a vivid example of adaptability.
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Mars
Maryland
Brazil
New York Sun
Sunday School Lesson January 9
Golden text from John 9 4 stresses doing the work of him who sent us while day lasts. Lesson follows Mark 1 23 to 2 14 and devotional reading Isaiah 42 1 to 7.
Demoniac to sanity and healing in Mark's Galilee
The passage recounts Jesus casting a demoniac, healing Peter's mother in law, and many others as Sabbath ends. Crowds press to the door. Jesus withdraws to pray in solitude, then begins a preaching tour through Galilee to evangelize, leaving Capernaum to reach other towns.
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Peter
Mark
Jesus
Galilee
God
Luther
Simon Peter
Capernaum
A. S. Peake
A Crack At Jerry Home Guard Joins AA Gunners
A London raider is often shot down by Home Guard gunners who man Britain's anti aircraft batteries. One Home Guard gunner says the night shift turns civilians into AA specialists, giving morale as a tonic amid raids.
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Home Guard
Britain
A.A
London
Jerry
London Daily Telegraph
Morale Keeps Soldiers Going Despite Hard Odds
A Negro soldier defines morale as the force that keeps his feet moving when he believes the task cannot be done. He emphasizes morale as the essential spirit sustaining effort under pressure.
Boots and Cloth Sent to Soviet Union in WWII Aid
Within a week after the German invasion of Russia Britain shipped 500000 pairs of boots to the Soviets. By April 1942 total aid reached six times that amount at the cost of 40000 tons of shipping space. In four days the Quartermaster General's Department of the British Army packed and dispatched enough great coat cloth to stretch from the White Sea to the Black Sea.
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Russia
Britain
Quartermaster General
White Sea
Black Sea
Weed pests spread from outside sources on prairie farms
Practically all troublesome prairie weeds are introduced from outside as seed or fodder impurities. Agencies attribute weed spread to seed and feed sources as well as wind and movement by farm implements and vehicles, spreading the pests to new localities.
Crossword Puzzle No 4862 From Our Crossword Puzzle
Complex puzzle page lists horizontal clues from Siamese coins to Hawaiian bird with many gaps and misprints. Vertical clues include pain timing plaid ermine and other common crossword entries. The page resembles a standard puzzle with scattered errors and incomplete words.
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Nations Farmers’ Union
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Norway
Field Marshall Jan Christian Smuts
South Africa
The
Woodrow Wilson Foundation
Woodrow Wilson Award
Wembley Stadium
Sport
Red Cross
By William Ferguson
NEA
Yokohama
Flamingo
Reg
Pop
Gene Byrnes
Orville
Wilbur Wright
Arabian Seaport
By Fred Neher
Tom
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