Canada Seen Key Transit Hub For Postwar Air Routes
Fortune magazine contends Canada will anchor direct air links between North America and Europe Asia. It highlights ground facilities and new staging routes from Alaska to Britain, plus plans for Trans-Canada Airlines to run transatlantic, inland Arctic, and Pacific routes. It notes training of 250000 Canadians in aviation and envisions long range equipment and agreements with Britain to unlock new air trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Asia
Canada
Fortune
North America
Northwest
U.S. Frontier
Alaska
Britain
U.S
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Trans-Canada Airlines
TCA
North Atlantic
Yukon
Pacific
Vacouver
Bermuda
Nassau
Hawaii
Work Is Exciting Canadian Girls May Join Anti Aircraft Crews
The Windsor Star notes changing views on women in military service as Canadian women train as plotter telephonists in the Canadian Women's Army Corps and may join anti aircraft gun crews. It cites British example and says volunteers are likely for this dangerous work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Women's Army Corps
Windsor Star
Seed potatoes sliced by mistaken shopper tale
A Kansas City housewife asked a grocer for a peck of seed potatoes. An hour later she returned with a platter of sliced potatoes and complained no seed was inside any piece. The passage also notes that while many dialects are spoken in China, the written language is uniform across regions.
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Kansas City
China
Reputation of Canadian fighter pilots in Malta praised
The piece lauds Canadian flyers in Malta, highlighting Vedrun, Que. ace George Beurling and peers in RAF and RCAF. It notes pilots like Sqdn. Larr Malcolm MacLeod missing, Sqdn. Lar. John Lynch, Cyril Gosling of North Battleford, and George Albert Hardy of Davidson. Describes their firepower, endurance, and resilience on missions over Sicily and Dieppe-era service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malta
George Beurling
Vedrun
Canada
Verdun
RAAF
Larr
Malcolm MacLeod
Pictou
N.S
R.A.F
John Lynch
Tulsa
Alhambra
Calif
R.C.A.F
Britain
Cyril Gosling
Saskatchewan Power Commission
North Battleford
Gosling
Dieppe
Sicily
Syracuse
Sicilian
West
George Albert Hardy
Davidson, Sask
Hardy
Thera
Animal By-Products Support Strings Industry in North America
The article explains how Canada and the United States now manufacture instrument strings from animal by-products, reducing reliance on Germany and Italy. It details uses of sheep and lamb intestines for sutures and strings, pork by-products for sausages, brushes, pepsin, and medicinal glands, and notes regional applications including pelts, casings, and pig products for food and industry.
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Canada
United States
Germany
Italy
North America
Health of Animals Division
Dominion Department of Agriculture
British West Indies
Windsor Star Dinner Ties Shaughnessy and Burns
W L Clark notes a Windsor Star story about a Vancouver dinner where Lord Shaughnessy of Canadian Pacific joked about lamb versus mutton. Pat Burns is mentioned as being called on later. The quip and Burns’ response tie the evening’s score.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Clark
Windsor Star
Lord Shaughnessy
Pat Burns
Vancouver
Canadian Pacific
Calgary
Crops Tested Along Alaska Highway Route
Russian dandelions for rubber are among crops tested at Dawson Creek on the new Alaska Highway route in cooperation with the U S Department of Agriculture. Other crops on test include clover from Siberia and alfalfa from Tibet.
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Dawson Creek
Alaska
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Siberia
Tibet
Australian Council conducts 250000 wood tests for aircraft
In wood experiments for aircraft the Australian Council of Scientific Research has made 250000 mechanical tests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australian Council of Scientific Research
Interlude Breaks RAF Boston Squad Softball Game
A tied softball game in a North Africa base yard ends when Wing Cmdr J R Thompson leads a briefing with a paper in hand. The Boston squadron pilots, in flywear and leather tan, resume play as intelligence officers finish questioning. The scene echoes the RAF’s shuttle bombing tempo as targets are set for the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R.A.F. Boston
North Africa
J. R. Thompson
D.F.C
Listowel
Ont
Boston
R.A.F
Figures Show The Help In Supplying Russia By Britain Empire
Within a fortnight of Germany's invasion of Russia the corporation became purchasing agent for Soviet orders worldwide. Goods range from tools to self generating units, aluminum to zinc, with 26 000 tons of tin shipped and rubber sent from Ceylon. Wool, copper, ferro chrome and other materials come from Empire sources. India supplies jute, hides, tea and a vast variety of manufactures. Karachi becomes shipment hub and routes to the U S S R run via Nokundi Zahidan Meshed and Caspian links.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Russia
Ceylon
Cornwall
Moscow
Sterling
Australia
New Zealand
Syria
Iraq
Persia
Canada
Palestine
Turkey
East Africa
India
Karachi
U.S.S.R
Nokkundi
Zahidan
U.K.C.C
Persian Gulf
Caspian Sea
Vladivostok
Salvaged Scraps Make Fruit Motifs
Pattern 7458 offers six fruit applique motifs cherries pears and apples for towels. Send twenty cents in coins to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspap er Union 175 McDermot Avenue E Winnipeg Man with name address and pattern number. Mail delays noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newpaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Paris Hobbled by Taxi Shortage Yet Patient Transport Rules
Paris has only 16 petrol consuming taxis left and they cannot carry ordinary passengers. They are reserved for doctors on urgent duty or patient transport. Patients pay 100 francs per hour for 12 miles while doctors pay 60 francs per hour for nine miles. Parisians rely on a pedal propelled taxi drawn by one or two cyclists.
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Paris
Traditional seating rule for Chinese banquets
The north side of a room is the honor side in Chinese custom and hosts sit there facing south.
Medal For Mountie Veteran On Historic Northwest Passage
Constable W. J. Parry of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police received the Polar Medal from the Earl of Athlone at Government House Victoria for a 20 year career and a perilous West to East voyage aboard the St. Roche. Departing Vancouver in June 1940, the vessel carried Arctic supplies, was frozen at Palsey Bay for 11 months, then became the first ship to traverse the Northwest Passage from west to east, reaching Halifax in October 1942.
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Northwest Passage
St. Roche
Government House
Victoria
Earl of Athlone
W. J. Parry
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Vancouver
Arctic
R.c.mlp
Palsey Bay
North Magnetic Pole
Halifax
Nervy Soldier Braving Fire Carries Grenades and Craves Cigarettes
A private in an infantry battalion of the British First Army crawled from trench to trench under heavy bombardment carrying a tray of grenades. He shouted to his comrades above the roar offering cigarettes and chocolates, displaying calm under extreme danger.
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First Army
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Bersting
Senator Pat Burns
Empire
Alice Brooks
ECAF
Kathleen O. Walker
Ottawa
Royal Canadian Air Force
Nancy Mcarthur
Leff
Frances A. Service
Toronto
W.D
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