Canadian farmers face labor and equipment scarcity since 1939
Wartime shifts drew hundreds of thousands from farms to war work, yet farm employment rose from 985,000 in 1943 to 1,026,600 in 1944 while female farm workers aged 14 to 64 increased from 765,000 to 790,000. Postwar hopes point to easing labor shortages and machinery, with Britain’s two year shipping agreements for beef, bacon, cheese, and eggs continuing, and Canada supplying civilians and armed forces. The industry remains pivotal as peacetime returns unfold.
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Consdian
Armed Services
Europe
United Kingdom
Canada
Britain
British
Ministry of Food
Dominion
Red Cross
United Nations
Russia
Greece
North Africa
Polar Flying Tests From RAF Expedition To Iceland
The British air ministry announced an RAF expedition departs for Iceland for polar flight tests. Lancaster Aries will fly to Geographic and Magnetic Poles with four weeks of supplies and special equipment. Wing Commander D C McKinley leads the mission focusing on navigation, compass behavior, radar, and magnetic and meteorological data.
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R.A.F
Iceland
British Air Minstry
Aries
America
Canada
South Africa
Geographic Pole
Magnetic Pole
Britain
D. C. McKinley
McKinley
Harry Hopkins
Russia
Warning System Aims To Prevent Train Hot Box Accidents
The Pullman-Standard Company unveils a patented electrical alarm to detect overheated axle journal boxes on passenger cars. A yellow light signals normal operation while a red light and buzzer warn of overheating, with future plans to alert the train cab if any hot box is detected, enabling an immediate halt for safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pullman-Standard Company
Department of Commerce
Comet Tank Aids Final Battle For Germany
Britain's fastest heavily armored tank the Comet played a major part in the final battle for Germany the British Information Service reported in New York. The new tank carries a hard hitting Tima gun with a new gun laying device for extreme accuracy.
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Britain
Germany
British Information Service
New York
British chemists report propamidine as sterilizing drug
A new discovery from British chemists introduces propamidine as a sterilizing drug. It claims to sterilize long lasting injuries and turns, though the excerpt contains fragmented notes and unrelated phrases.
Costs and casualties of WWII summed after surrender
Details released on the war’s toll show Britain facing over 4.9 trillion dollars in damage and many human losses. Russian estimates suggest 12 to 15 million lives lost in the Soviet advance. Morgenthau cites US costs at 275.7 billion as the navy lists heavy losses across battleships carriers destroyers and submarines.
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Britain
John Anderson
House of Commons
Matthew Hain
CEC
Berlin
Reich
Washington
Henry Morgenthau Jr
United States Treasury
United States
Germany
Royal Navy
Britain’s 85 ton Shetland flying boat unveiled
Britain reveals its largest flying boat, the 110 foot hull Shetland, designed for global patrol and reconnaissance. Sir John Buchanan of Short Brothers says it is faster than the US Mars though not as large, with one craft completed and flown and a second under construction being redesigned as a 70 passenger transatlantic liner with a promenade and cocktail bar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Sir John Buchanan
Short Brothers
United States
Mars
England Wales infant mortality hits record low in war year
The British Vitality London report notes the lowest infant mortality in England and Wales since records began, despite heavy wartime bombing and stretched hospitals. Birth rate rose to a wartime high, the highest since 1926, as six years of conflict loom ahead with renewed hope for a new generation.
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London
England and
Wales
Britain
England
Boston
Verse echoes of joy and faith across writings
A compilation of devotional excerpts and quotes from Psalm 6 11 David Spurgeon Plutarch Eddy Kilmer and Joyce Kilmer praising gratitude joy and divine aid. It notes God defending the faithful and the power of thanksgiving across religious voices and a coal industry line about colors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spurgeon
Earth
Mary Baker Eddy
Price Control And Rationing Information Q I
Wartime prices and rationing guidance answer readers questions on coupon removal, tenancy notices, sugar coupons, and lease options. It explains clerks remove coupons before application, eviction rules between Sept 30 and Apr 30, sugar coupons equal for brown and white sugar, and term certain leases for five months or less. Readers are urged to request pamphlets from Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices.
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Consumers’ News
Prices and Trade Board
Smiles and snippets from a busy classroom page
A collage of humorous dialogue and ad style lines from an English paper. It includes jokes about tests and mistakes, a bakery for sale, speed talk, school reminiscences, a constable scene, a window remark, a sharp business letter, a foreman quip, a cafe exchange, and a classroom misdirection. The tone is brisk and period newspaper playful.
CWAC personnel changes and marriages noted in Ottawa
Sergeant Yvonne Campbell of Saskatoon earns staff sergeant rank in the C W A C Ottawa Directorate of Organization. Reposts, enlistees, marriages, and CWACs returning from Italy are listed, including Major Morrison and Captain Botterill. Also details on Helen Nielsen enlistment and CWACs spending leave with their parents and families.
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Yvonne Campbell
Saskatoon
C.W.A.C
Ottawa
Campbell
Directorate of Organization
M. E. Cleveland
Mary Morrison
Red Deer
Alta
No. 12 Admin
C.W.A
Kingston
Ont
Lois Botterill
Calgary
Winnipeg
Regina
No. 3
Admin
Patricia Hamill
Cwacs
Italy
Mediterranean
England
Germans Return in Thousands to Berlin Ruins
Despatches report Berlin's fall of capital as thousands return to the ruined city. Two thousand Russian administrative districts have registered two million inhabitants. Returning residents arrive in carts wagons and bicycles. The Nile holds more fish species than any other river.
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Berlin
Streta
The
Nile
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Willie Brown
Bobby
Esse
Foreman
Joan
Mary
Kellogg's
RSP
Helen Margaret Nielsen
Butley
Man
Canadian Women's Army Corps
Nielsen
Helen Kathleen Hanson
Bawff
Gordon Betker
Yorkton
Sask
Sussex
N.B
J. R. Graham
Anne Stromquist
Paddockwood
Paul Augustson
Haas
Cpl
E. A. Sayers
Sonningdale
Bawif
Vancouver
Joan Allan
Isle of
Capri
Marguerite Hughes
Naples
Florence
Pompeti
Gerry Mumford
Halifax
Carol Thompson
Carnduff
St. Peter's Cathedral
Vatican City
Margery French
Toronto
CWAC
Patricia Claff
Pacific
Ruth
Wallace Claff
U.S. Army Nursing Corps
South Pacific
New Guinea
Leyte
Claff
Weymouth
Mayo
Cpl. Claff
Katherine Gibbs
Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School
Chester Claff
Randolph
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Directorate of Trades Training
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United Securities CI Company
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Bay Shee
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