War speeds science and global understanding
International science and technology have advanced rapidly due to war demands, enabling tasks that would have taken years to be completed in weeks or months. War accelerated international cooperation, improved communication, and the flow of refugees from Nazi tyranny to Britain, the United States, and Canada, including government in exile members and free forces, fostering mutual trust among nations for the future.
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Europe
Britain
United States
Canada
Air Training Plan Forges Global Links During War Effort
The Commonwealth Air Training Plan unites thousands of men from Britain Australia New Zealand and beyond through exchange and travel in Canada. It fosters international understanding and bonds of friendship as services from across the Commonwealth the United States and exile governments train together with hospitality clubs education tours and leave courses at Oxford.
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Britain
Australia
New Zealand
Canada
Dominion
Ministry of Information
United Nations
Empire
United States
Commonwealth
Oxford
Sure Of Victory Canadian Servicemen Abroad Ready For Fray
Foster Barclay reports from Ottawa after three years overseas as a war correspondent. Canadian servicemen abroad express confidence in victory, say they would rather continue fighting to end than return home. They acknowledge praise for the three services and note the uncertain end to the war.
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Foster Barclay
Ottawa
Barclay
Proper housing boosts winter egg production for hens
The Dominion Department of Agriculture cites moderate weather and comfortable quarters as key to record egg output. Insulate first then ventilate a warm, well-insulated laying house. wood block constructions are cheapest, cedar preferred, logs dried and bark removed to ensure thorough air drying.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Vitamin Tablets Added To Newfoundland Royal Navy Pay
Royal Canadian Navy personnel in Newfoundland Command will receive a month's supply of vitamin tablets with pay. Living out will get tablets at pay parade, and those in bar racks will receive a pill a day at meal sign in. The measure aims to ease nutrition in a region with high prices for milk and scarce fresh vegetables.
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Royal Canadian ‘Navy
Newfoundland
Navy
Price Control And Rationing Information Q and A
The Wartime Prices and Trade Board outlines changes and guidance on rationing. Blueberries are no longer rationed due to a heavy last summer crop. Maple syrup mail orders will soon use vouchers exchanged at the ration board. Meat rationing is suspended but certain coupons remain, and some books will interact with canning sugar. Professional fees may rise, as ceilings do not cover doctors or lawyers. Canned vegetables are allocated by percentage. grocers may limit sales to many customers. Extra temporary rations for labor can be requested year round, not just harvest. Tomato juice is not rationed, though limited in supply. Send questions or request the Consumers’ News pamphlet to the nearest WPA Board office.
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Prices and Trade Board
Canada
Consumers’ News
Provence
Queen Mary’s gold sovereign given to Red Cross
The Canadian Red Cross reports the first 1961 campaign contribution as a gold sovereign donated by Queen Mary. The coin, placed on a Christ Church Cathedral Ottawa collection plate during a royal visit, was given to the Red Cross by Mrs. Orde who sent it to Queen Mary for war relief. Maj. Gen. Price recalls he was a choir boy when it was first placed.
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Canadian Red Cross Society
Queen Mary
Christ Church Cathedral
Ottawa
King George V
Duke and Duchess of Cornwall
York
Red Cross
World’s oldest 500K text claim sparks inquiry
A claim circulates that a book found in China, dating to 100 B.C., is the world’s oldest intact volume. The object is described as comprising 78 wooden leaves bound with string, a detail that researchers may scrutinize for authenticity and context.
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China
Marquis wheat era ends after rust resistant strides
Ottawa Journal notes the end of an era that began at the Central Experimental Farm in 1903 when Dr Charles Saunders created Marquis wheat. The grain shaped Western Canada’s rise, but its single defect rust led to rust resistant Thatcher strains, now dominant with 53 percent of Prairie sown in 1948.
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Central Experimental Farm
Ottawa
Coneral
Charles Saunders
Ater Sir Charles
Prairie Provinces
Canada
Dr. Saunders
Marquis
Prairie
West
Wheatlands
Ottawa Journal
Gems of Thought Candor and Secrecy Across Moral Themes
A compact collection of maxims on candor and character from Samuel Coley to Voltaire. The excerpts urge authenticity, honesty in trade, restraint in deception, and the value of sincere, impartial reasoning in moral subjects.
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Emmons
Smile a While World Bites: Jokes and Snippets From Daily Life
A collage of light humor and social snippets spans a doctor overcharging for measles care, a pupil mishearing class lessons on communism fascism and nazism, a barbering dog tale, a sapient steel trap joke, a thief and sentimentality exchange, and a note that ancient North Africa was known as Rome’s granary.
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North Africa
Rome
Strange Currency Pigs in South Sea Islands
Cmdr. Harry Huston of the United States Navy, at the American College of Surgeons convention in Winnipeg, explains a unique monetary system where pigs function as currency. The wealthiest chief owns the most pigs and, as his herd grows, uses pigs to procure a wife to care for more pigs, leading to the chief holding most pigs and wives.
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South Sea Islands
Harry Huston
United States Navy
American College of Surgeons
Winnipeg
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