Magnetic Mine Defense and Degaussing Belts Get Britain Through
A naval correspondent explains how magnetic mines threaten shipping and how Britain developed clearance methods plus degaussing belts to neutralize magnetism. The D G gear around ships uses insulated cables to cancel magnetism, allowing passage over minefields with no damage. Officers foresee continued immunity limits and note rapid development within three months.
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Britain
Gauss
His
Trees and war open prairie forests to new opportunities
The Canadian Forestry Association argues that wartime needs and postwar markets boost tree planting. As drought exposes soil erosion, forests gain value for economy and tourism. Canada may supply UK and US wood needs while expanding forest management and preservation across the prairies.
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Forestry Associations
Forestry Association
Prairie
Dominion Forestry Farms
Actiivities
Prairie Fawn Rehabititation
Europe
United States
Norway
Roland D. Craig
Dominion Forest Service
Ottawa
Canadian Society of Forestry Engineers
Baltic
United Kingdom
Mr. Craig
Canada
Arthur A. Schman
Canadian Forestry Association
Supplies Cut Off Inevitable War Time Clothespins Shortage
The article notes clothespin scarcity on the home front as Britain relies on imports prior to the war. It cites 192 million pegs imported yearly mainly from Germany and local makers facing wire shortages for other goods. A Leeds trap-maker and a spring peg firm plan production, predicting sixpence per dozen versus prewar prices.
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England
Germany
Leeds
Winnipeg to House Wireless School for Air Training
An agreement announced by Hon. C G Power establishes a wireless school of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan at the University of Manitoba Winnipeg. The facility will train over 1 000 airmen as wireless operators with Montreal as another site and Montreal’s technicians for ground and electrical roles.
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British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
University of Manitoba At
Winnipeg
C.G. Power
National Defence
Power
Sidney E. Smith
Justice Dysart
Royal Canadian Air Force
Australia
New Zealand
Montreal
The
University
Will Survey Housing Next Census Include
A planned Canada census in 1941 will include housing questions from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. It asks about house type sanitation heating bathrooms refrigeration fuel used number of rooms construction and rent. Ontario real estate boards urged the federal government to gather property and housing data in the census.
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Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Ontario Association of Real Estate Boards
London
Early Tea Served With Butter and Pepper Origins
A seventeenth century hostess reportedly cooked a pound of tea with butter salt and pepper for guests. History notes a Sparta youth game resembling American football played 2,500 years ago.
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Sparta
Ear of Dionysius Whispering Gallery in Syracuse
The Ear of Dionysius in Syracuse Italy a ancient whispering gallery formed over 5000 years ago in a limestone cliff stands 50 feet high and extends 200 feet into the rock Its acoustics carry even the sound of tearing paper to the far end and it is linked to Emperor Dionysius who used the space as a prison listening from a top room to prisoners whispers.
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Italy
Dionysius
Syracuse
Air resistance consumes most engine power at 62 mph
An automobile traveling at 62 miles per hour uses about 60 percent of its power to overcome air resistance, indicating substantial energy loss to drag at highway speed.
Bombay Engineer Proposes Wing Slot Flap Landing Device
Phiroze P Nazir, a 32 year old Bombay aeronautical research engineer for the Indian government, discussed a trailing edge cut slot and flap device with British Commonwealth Air Training Plan officials. The device would slow landing by acting as an air brake and also boost lift for short takeoffs, with development and patent costs funded by India.
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Bombay
Phiroze P. Nazir
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Mistaken Auction Sells Quincy Home in Error
Mr and Mrs Norman Good of Quincy Mass were away on vacation when an H O L C auctioneer mistook their address and sold their house and two car garage to the highest bidder within a half hour. The Goodwins owned the home 16 years and the next door property was the intended target.
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Norman Goodwin
Quincy
Mass
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
We Piazza
Goodwins
Burlap in Great Demand War Time Commodity
Burlap remains highly sought as sandbag supply drives wartime needs. Prices have swung from six to 11 cents per yard since last September with Britain buying 500 million yards. Global shortage pushes shift to cotton sacking and paper bags for packaging. Photographers use carbon black powder to aid overlapping aerial maps of Antarctica while Vancouver BC hosts a leading fish oil refinery.
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Antarctica
Germany imposes special register for Berlin potatoes
In Berlin the German government requires customers to be specially registered to buy potatoes. After registry purchases occur only on two non consecutive days weekly and limited by available supply. The note condemns totalitarian rule and warns on world power dynamics.
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Berlin
Legend of Bodhidharma and tea origin
According to an old legend Bodhidharma began a nine year penance without sleep. He plucked out his eyebrows to punish himself, and from the ground sprang the tea plant. He ate the leaves to stay awake throughout the penance.
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Bodhidharma
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