Battle of the Atlantic Through Allied Efforts and Risks
The piece extols the global naval struggle, emphasizing the Atlantic battle as crucial. It notes Royal and Canadian Navies, plus the U S Navy, maintaining control while submarines threaten from the Gulf of St Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico. It praises air raids on U boat bases, Canadian shipyards, and joint production with the United States and Britain to replace losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
England
Europe
Royal Navy
Canadian Navy
United States
Atlantic Ocean
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Gulf of Mexico
Egypt
Danzig
Fla.f
Canada
Britain
Air links to China rival Burma Road as expansion seen
Communications Minister Chang Chiang-au reported that the air route linking China to the outside world matches or exceeds the Burma Road in capacity. He noted plans for further expansions to boost freight, plus substitute land routes for the severed Burma Road and increased shipments from unloading centers. He also cited progress in converting gasoline vehicles to charcoal fuel as a conservation effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air Ines
China
Burma Road
Chang Chiang-au
Chungking. Ltd
Burma
Free
Chang
Canadian air women arrive in Newfoundland mobilizing RCAF group
Reach Newfoundland reports the first draft of 24 Canadian air women from the women 3 division of the Royal Canadian Air Force arriving in Newfoundland to be stationed at group headquarters. Led by assistant section officer Peggy Dunbar and Cpl Isobel Smallwood they will take groundwork clerical mess and general duties formerly done by men. A second draft is expected soon to free more men for flying duties.
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Royal Canadian Air Force
Newfoundland
Peggy Dunbar
Moncton
N.B
Cpl
Isobel Smallwood
Vancouver
Miss Dunbar
Dunbar
Reducing Car Weight Through Design And Materials
Opinions reveal that through greater care in design and greater economy in the use of material car weights can be reduced up to 1000 pounds without curtailing sizes.
The Individual Citizen's Army and War's Call to Action
A wartime essay argues that civilian resolve matters as much as soldiers. It urges every citizen to back the war effort, monitor price controls, report infractions, and honor fallen soldiers, linking public duty to postwar stability and vigilance against tyranny.
Ancient handcrafts revive in Britain amid war shortages
Amid war driven industry, Britain sees a return to hand weaving pottery basket making and other crafts. Senior girls learn spinning wheel work and tweeds while Captain Frank C Appleton on a 150 year old loom produces sailors comforts and smoke shelters. A Yorkshire rope spinner uses waste to produce rope daily and a Somerset craftsman James K Toms perfects sheep gut violin strings.
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British Isles
Britain
Mahatma Gandhi
Ford
England
Herefordshire
Navy
Frank C. Appleton
Appleton
Alfred the Great
Yorkshire
Lancashire
Somerset
James K. Toms
Toms
Kreisler
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Military camouflage uses painted cotton cloth widely
Large quantities of painted cotton cloth are employed to hide airport sections, roads, factories, machine gun emplacements and other military targets.
Forgiveness and Courage Across Wisdom Quotes
A collection of admonitions on forgiveness and love from writers including Mary Baker Eddy, F W Robertson, Rambler, Schiller, Lavater, and Beecher. The quotes emphasize mercy over tyranny, tenderness over pain, and time valued by forgiving enemies, proclaiming forgiveness as a transformative virtue.
Silk For Parachutes At Lullingstone Castle Farm
Lady Hart Dyke at Lullingstone Castle heads a silk farm aided by two land girls. The operation will sacrifice normal silk output of 4 000 pounds to produce 30 000 000 silkworm eggs for stocking new farms and ensuring parachute material.
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Lady Hart Dyke
Lullingstone Castle
England
Not The Only One Belgians Claim Rubens Honor
Two Belgians on a busy thoroughfare salute with Heil Rubens a WNart officer overhears and questions the meaning. One Belgian replies that Belgians have a famous painter too. The scene is described as a moment of cultural assertion in occupied homeland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heil Rubens
Helium enables welding of inflammable metals for warplanes
Helium, the non inflammable gas, will speed warplane production by a new process that allows its use in blow torches for welding. The method enables welding of inflammable metals such as magnesium, enhancing aircraft fabrication.
Nettles eyed as paper shortage relief by Scots firm
A Scottish firm plans to buy 1000 tons of nettles at 10 pounds per ton to aid papermaking material. The initiative targets supplies for books of a severely critical nature, suggesting a niche use for the plant in publishing.
Canal distance discrepancy noted at Pacific Atlantic ends
A historical note indicates the Pacific end of the Panama Canal lies 27 miles farther east than the Atlantic end, highlighting a measurable asymmetry in the canal’s geographic endpoints for study and mapping.
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Pacific
Panama Canal
Lis
Atlantic
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Pat Burton
Calgary Stampede
Burton Ranch
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Unter den Linien
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Mary Baker Eddy
F. W Robertson
Schiller
Lavater
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Wilson Fly Pad CO
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