Rules Governing Ocean Waves Influence On Air Above
A London News Review excerpt explains how calm air over water breaks with turbulence from disturbances, showing waves form from wind and lift, and detailing how ocean waves match wave length velocity and period. It notes Atlantic rollers near Cornwall, swells traveling across oceans, and cases of extreme heights in hurricanes.
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George Kimble
the Geographic Magazine
Cornwall
St. Paul's Cathedral
Atlantic
Newfoundland
Castablanca
North Atlantic
Iceland
News Review
London
Trawler Skipper's Odd Talk On Anti Aircraft Method
A British trawler skipper describes his method for fending off dive bombers. The admiralty official records the exchange in which the crew shout George and George answers Ay ay sir. Plane reported, George says Ay ay air. Then I say Shoot the blighter and George shoots him.
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Admiralty
George
P.O. campaign reuses envelopes to save paper in London
The General Post Office in London requires every envelope to be used at least once more for re addressing or inter-office messages. Large envelopes have carried as many as 60 different addresses in the save paper effort.
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London
Taxis Scarce in London After War Decline
The London taxi fleet has fallen by 27 percent since the war, as Home Secretary Herbert Morrison laments the empty streets at night and the repeated plaintive cry of taxi, taxi fills the air.
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London
Saga
Herbert Morrison
Canadian Army Calling Hitler Lookalike From Hamilton
John Michal, known as Hitler to Hamiltonians for his resemblance to the German dictator, has joined Canada's active service after medicals. A Greek former sergeant with the Greek infantry, he bears injuries from battle and carries Greek discharge papers. He emigrated to Canada in 1930 after serving on Greece’s police force. He plans scientific research during military service, hoping to help science against disease, while dreaming of a quieter life and a country home.
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Hamilton
Hitler
Canada
Active Service
Fuehrer
John Michal
John ‘Hitler
John “Hitler
Greece
University of Athens
Germany
Not War Minded Kaiser Warns Against Bloodshed
Kaiser Frederick, father of Wilhelm, a liberal ruler who died after a brief reign, urged Germans to avoid war. Known as Unser Fritz for his Franco Prussian War exploits, he opposed militarists and proclaimed that war is man’s last option and must be avoided if possible. The Argonaut.
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Kaiser Frederick
Kaiser Wilhelm
Germany
the Argonaut
Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City Construction Time
The article notes the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City required forty years to complete its construction, highlighting the lengthy effort behind the famous gathering place.
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Mormon Tabernacle
Salt Lake City
Packer Plight Reveals Pickle Production Dilemma
National Pickle Packers Association deliberates in Chicago at the Palmer House on how to promote pickle shortages caused by a lack of pickers even as crop quality and prices rise. Einar Gaustad of Holsum urges publicity to solve the pickle puzzle while public interest lingers over plentiful crops and high prices. A luncheon followed the meeting with pickles served.
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National Pickle Packers Association
Palmer House
Chicago
Einar Gaustad
Holsum Products
Milwaukee
Modern Style Clogs Join Wartime British Fashion
Modern style clogs, the latest addition to women’s wartime fashion in Britain, feature suede and calf uppers, rubberized wooden soles to prevent noise, and a leather insole. Weighs about the same as crepe soles.
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Britain
Cute motifs for stitchery pattern 7221 offered
Ad copy describes 16 transfer motifs from 5 by 5 inches to 3 4 by 3% inches with illustrations and color schemes. Send twenty cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue Winnipeg Man for pattern 7221. Include name address and pattern number in plain writing.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Burma Tops Teak Exports Surpassing All Nations
Burma typically exports roughly double the teakwood of its next closest country, maintaining a leading position in the global timber trade and highlighting its prominence in Southeast Asian forestry markets.
Japan Struggles With Shipping Amid Overburdened Land Transport
Max Hill reports Japan faces severe ocean shipping losses and inland bottlenecks as submarines bite into routes. Industrial centers like Osaka Yokohama and Tokyo rely on reallocated plants while 15 prewar regions strain to supply raw materials. Troop transports and foreign-flag ships, including French vessels, complicate crewing as crews resist serving under the Rising Sun.
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Max Hill
Associated
Preeas
Tokyo
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Gripsholm
Orient
Yokohama
Osaka
Manchukuo
Aleutians
Indies
Rangoon
Pacific-mandated Islands
Formosa
Kobe
Marshal Joffre
Lourenco Marques
Retail sales rise in June driven by buying power
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports retail sales in June up 12 percent from June 1941 and 41 percent from June 1938 on a dollar basis. For the first half of 1942 sales are 17.1 percent higher than 1941. Higher living costs fuel much of the rise, but real spending reflects greater purchasing power despite wartime taxes, with notable gains in candy, groceries, meat, and restaurant sectors.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Ottawa Journal
Churchill diary claim denied by London writer
The Talk of the Town column in the Daily Sketch says Churchill will share his war story with the world after victory. It rejects claims he is currently writing a daily diary and notes his heavy workload. It adds he dislikes keeping a diary and even dislikes whistling.
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Mr. Churchill
Freezing of all electric ranges shocks Canadian households
The Windsor Star notes the rapid pace of change as Canada announces the “freezing” of all electric ranges. The piece questions how many housewives 25 years ago cooked on electric ranges and implies a shift in what is considered a vital life necessity.
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Windsor Star
Brazil’s Diverse Oils Boost War Time Shortages
Brazil cultivates a wide range of vegetable oils beyond cottonseed and palm kernel. Oils include iucia babacu andiroba curicuri bankul cumarin curua sesame macauba pracaxi corn and mustard. Muru muru and tucum fats aid margarine production.
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Brazil
Canadian Poet Proposes United Nations Flag Symbol
Archdeacon Frederick George Scott of Quebec suggests in a New York Times letter that a United Nations flag should fly beside each ally’s national flag. He argues the banner would symbolize the democratic powers' underlying and unbreakable resolve.
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Frederick George Scott
Quebec
New York Times
United Nations
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