Canada pool of postwar plans for full employment
Dr F Cyril James told the House of Commons reconstruction committee that postwar employment is essential for Dominion prosperity. He urged demobilized soldiers and munitions workers be absorbed into industry, with phased pay and expanded living standards, while calling for coordinated government financed projects to rebuild Canadian industry and maintain price stability.
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Ttawa
Ita Prograss
F Cyril James
McDill Universty
James
House of Dommons
Dominion
Canada
England
Prime Minister Curtin Calls Striking Miners Back to Work
Australian Prime Minister Curtin urges coal miners to resume work or risk government action. He states the government will stand or fall on the issue and will compel workers back to the pits if necessary.
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Canberra
Australia
Curtin
Northern Ireland budget proposal doubles war effort provision
Belfast report shows Finance Minister J Milne Barbour presenting a provisional contribution to the war effort totaling 21.3 million pounds, nearly doubling last year's record 11.75 million. The plan outlines funding for defense and related expenditures, indicating a stepped-up financial commitment amid ongoing tensions.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
J. Milne Barbour
Montcalm Icebreaker Arrives to Aid Soviet War Effort
The Canadian icebreaker Montcalm arrived safely in northern Russia to serve the Soviet government for the war. It is the second Canadian icebreaker in those waters under wartime conditions. The Canadian master and crew will deliver the ship to Russian operation, with Canadians expected back in Canada soon. The vessel is believed to be in the White Sea keeping the Murmansk Archangel route open for troop and supply movements.
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Ottawa
Montcalm
Russia
Glasgow
Canada
White Sea
Murmansk
Archangel
Allied air gains amid Japanese shipping in Pacific raid
Allied bombers on a 1.201 mile round trip above northern Australia sank a 3,900 ton Japanese ship at Amboina, and set two others afire. MacArthur's forces also hit a Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain, destroying three of fifteen bombers and damaging many more, with direct hits on two additional ships of 3,000 and 2,000 tons set on fire.
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Allied
Australia
Netherlands
Amboina
General MacArthur
Rabaul
New Britain
Navy announces Canadian fleet mail office in London and airgraph extension
The naval services headquarters announced a Cana dian fleet mail office to be established in London England and the airgraph mail service extended to naval personnel. Arrangements were completed for Royal Canadian Navy members abroad to receive parcel post and postal provisions for men on Canadian ships and those serving with the Royal Navy.
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London
Ottawa
England
Naval Services Headquarters
Royal Canadian Navy
Royal Navy
Canada Pushes Canadian Air Force Overseas Policy
Air Minister Power told the House of Commons he will persist with Canadianizing the Royal Canadian Air Force overseas despite resistance from some RCAF and RAF officers and lukewarm British air ministry support. He cited arguments for and against segregating Canadians in full squadrons and noted training nearer home to prepare for warfare. Defence disclosures show 25 Canadian squadrons were planned in the RAF, with 22 already established.
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Itawa
Power
House of Commons
Royal Canadian Air Force
Royal Air Force
Air Ministry
R.A.F
T. C. Douglas
C.C.F
Weyburn
Canada
Maj. Power
Oveseas
Hanson
Defence
Ralston
R.C.A.F
Vancouver man first Chinese recommended for Canadian Army commission
Dennie Tien Shek Leong, 22, believed to be the first Chinese to be recommended for a commission in the Canadian Active Army, has left Vancouver for Kingston Ontario to undertake a four month course before being commissioned as a lieutenant in the signal corps. Born in Hong Kong, he came to Canada at age one.
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Vancouver
Dennie Tien Shek Leong
Kingston
Ont
Signal Corps
Hong Kong
Canada
Home Guards Train for Anti Aircraft Duties
London reports Home Guards are being trained in small numbers to man anti aircraft defences. If experiments succeed, larger units will be given charge of a vital section of the defences.
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London
Home Guards
Prices allowed to advance on canned salmon items
Ottawa reports a slight rise in retail and wholesale prices for canned salmon. Neil Mr Lean, wartime prices and trade board fish products administrator, says retail dealers may add one cent per pound container and half a cent for each half or quarter pound tin. Wholesalers may add 30 cents per case of 48 one pound containers or 96 half or quarter pound tins.
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Ottawa
Neil Mr Lean
Prices and Trade Board
Plan to use Canadian training for US pilots discussed
A Daily Telegraph Morning Post correspondent says extending Britain's Commonwealth Air Training Plan to train pilots and air crews for the United States may follow Ottawa talks. The Americans lack full facilities, making Canada a ready source. Other United Nations may also be invited to send trainees to Canada.
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London
Daily Telegraph
Morning Post
United States
Ottawa
Canada
United Nations
Recruiting in India London figures pace in New Delhi
The British Broadcasting Corporation quoted its New Delhi representative stating that Indian volunteers are pouring into the recruiting centres of the city at a rate of 190,000 a month.
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India
London
British Broadcasting Corporation
New Delhi
Britain Surges to Peak War Production in 1942
Britain’s war output reaches new heights with plans to keep expanding through 1942. First quarter 1942 production roughly double that of Dunkirk period 1940, constrained by labor, materials, and tools. Civilian goods decline as 55 percent of resources now flow to government. Factory momentum from 1941 and Atlantic victory sustains steady gains into year.
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Dunkirk
Britain
Production Of Munitions Have Been Increased
Ottawa reports Canadian munitions plants are operating well above capacity with 75 percent higher output than estimated and one gun plant at two and a half times expected. Howe notes vast expansion in aircraft, ships, tanks, boats, and small arms, with contracts surpassing four billion dollars and steady progress toward war needs.
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George V
Mediterranean
Tripoli
Admiralty
Ottawa
Howe
House of Commons
Canada
United States
United Kingdom
Montreal
Great Lakes
Federal Aircraft Ltd
Federal Aircraft
Universal Carrier
Angus
Russia
Vancouver
Inglis
Toronto
New transatlantic air service planned from United States to Eire
London reports a new airline will soon operate between the United States and Eire carrying passengers mail and freight. The American Export Lines will conduct a proving flight with four metered flying boats within two weeks and then start a regular service of four weekly flights. Pan American Airways also plans to resume North Atlantic service shortly.
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London
United States
Eire
American Export Lines
Pan-American Airways
North Atlantic
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