Poison Ivy Awareness and Safe Handling Guidelines
Poison ivy grows in margins of woods and near travel grounds. People, including children, can contact the plant causing dangerous reactions and skin burns. Use sodium chlorate spraying for control with usually two applications. treat clothing and gear after work. For irritation try tannic acid solution and seek medical advice for severe poisoning before home remedies.
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Inronstaectee
Wiwady Peters
Puisen Iya
Sasce Poona
United States Public Health Service
Canada Defence Research Board appoints two new physicists
Defence Minister Claxton announced the appointment of Dr. Gordon M. Shrum head of physics at the University of British Columbia and Dr. J. H. L. Johnstone head of physics at Dalhousie University to fill the remaining two vacancies on Canada's Defence Research Board.
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Ottawa
Claxton
Gordon M. Shrum
University of British Columbia
J. H. L. Johnstone
Dalhousie University
Canada
Defence Research Board
Daily Newspapers Seek Right to Buy Radio Stations
The Canadian Daily Newspapers Association urged the CBC to reverse its policy restricting newspapers from owning or transferring radio stations. The brief argues newspapers need access to radio in all forms to remain viable as broadcasting evolves. It claims CBC governors blocked further licenses to newspapers arbitrarily, harming public interest.
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Brieg
CHC
CBC
Rentals Boosted As Controls Lifted For American Hotels
The Associated Press reports widespread rent increases for permanent hotel residents after controls were lifted. Increases commonly from 15 percent, with some as high as 25 to 165 percent. Extreme hikes of 200 percent occurred in a Denver tourist camp and a St Louis hotel, while New York City saw boosts up to 50 percent and one hotel at 125 percent.
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New York
United States
Denver
St. Louis
New York City
No New Jokes Recycled Since Benny Era
In a current magazine a writer recalls a joke heard over 40 years ago and notes the contributor received five dollars. The piece argues that humor rarely offers originality, tracing tired setups through time and noting public figures like Jack Benny as repeat performers.
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St. Catharines
Jack Benny
Britain Faces Dollar Shortage Shaping 1947 Trade
Britain warns that dollar shortages will curb 1947 trade with Canada and the United States. Attlee’s economic plan fixes imports at 80 to 85 percent of 1933 volumes, aims to shift purchases to soft currency and sterling markets, and relies on borrowing abroad to cover a large deficit.
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London
United Kingdom
Canada
United States
Western Hemisphere
Britain
Attlee
North America
Stafford Cripps
Board of Trade
Meat ration cut in Britain amid scarce supplies
In the British House of Commons Dr. Edith Summerskill announced a meat ration reduction from 27 cents to about 23 cents weekly starting July 13. The cut applies to processed meat, a small portion of which is included in each ration.
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London
Reuters
Britain
Commons
Edith Summerskill
Food Ministry
Nazis Planned Armistice with Soviet Union in 1943
Declassified naval records reveal Hitler and aides debated a possible Soviet armistice in 1943 that would have let the Soviets keep lending from the United States. The documents describe other plans including a high speed bomber project and V rocket use against Allied shipping, vetoed by Hitler.
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Soviet Union
Washington
Russia
United States
Hitler
United States Navy Department
Admiralty
London
Burning Mountain Fire Stubbornly Burns in Australia
A mountain about 700 miles northwest of Sydney hosts a fire that began around 10 000 years ago and continues to burn. Locals call it Burning Mountain near Mont Wingen. The coal-fed blaze advances slowly at three to four feet per year, emitting dense smoke and intense heat while turning surrounding rock white and sulfurous.
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Sydney
Australia
Mont Wingen
Supreme Court upholds Lea Act over union leaders
The court holds Congress can curb leaders of a monopolistic union who dictate hiring levels and threaten business when an employer refuses. The decision sustains the constitutionality of the Lea Act aimed at stopping tyrannical practices by the American Federation of Musicians in the radio industry.
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Kansas City Star
United States Supreme Court
Congress
American Federation of Muslans
Eisenhower Predicts Air Strikes on Great Lakes Industries
General Eisenhower told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that any new war would begin with an air assault on industrial centers in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River valley. He endorsed legislation to standardize Western Hemisphere armed forces, noting Americans expect air-driven moves in a potential conflagration.
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Washington
APS
Dwight Eisenhower
Great Lakes
St. Lawrence River Valley
United States Army
House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee
United States
Western Hemisphere
Risenhohwer
North America
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Brief
Kurl Doenitz
Navy
Air Force
Gibraltar
Marseilles
France
Stalin
North Africa
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Tokyo
Roosevelt
Tehran
Siberia
Canadian National Railways
Temple Room
Canadian National
Petrilid
Eisenhower
Sandy Simpson
Banks
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