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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 28, 1944
Page
5
The passage asserts science in Canada as a driver of vast progress, shaping modern warfare through new materials and enemy defense methods, while peacetime research yields lasting civilian benefits. It notes recent significant developments and their adaptation for the general good, highlighting science’s broad impact.
The text discusses Canada's emphasis on research for national development and mentions the National Research Council based in Ottawa. It highlights Canada's young nation status, potential industrial growth, and opportunities to utilize farm crops and waste products. It argues for public encouragement of such research.
At a Canadian Institute of Public Relations meeting, R. W. Boyle of the National Research Council reported per capita scientific research outlays: Russia 2.40, U S 180, Britain 0.80, Canada 0.29 dollars. He noted Canada's universities train researchers well and urged postwar investment to improve national science funding.
During the blockade of Leningrad a scientist retrieved radium from a building scrapped for 20 years of prior use. Plaster and walls were stripped and a significant radium supply extracted from the waste. The scientist received the Order of Red Banner of Labour.
Time magazine lauded the 1st Canadian Army, featuring Lt Gen Crerar in a front page portrait. The piece covers Canada's Dieppe return, the clearing of the robot bomb coast, and victories at Caen and Falaise, with Eisenhower’s praise for ground won.
British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden urged Canada to unite with Britain and France for Europe’s fate. He said cooperation requires vision, faith, and courage to persevere, stressing that how far they work together matters greatly.
The British minister of health maintains a white list recording towns with no slum areas. There are 83 towns currently on the list.
A concise note identifies the elf owl as the smallest owl species, with details implying its diminutive size. The fragment mentions the term six but offers no full context or dates. No additional entities or locations are provided in readable text.
War era column warns that allied soldiers in Naples faced steep costs for basic goods as price control frayed. Edna Jacques urges Canadians to monitor local prices and personal spending to prevent inflation and preserve wartime stability.
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports 1943 salt output at 687,686 short tons valued at 4,379,378 dollars. Domestic buyers include dairy, meat curing, canning, fisheries, chemicals, and highway departments. Salt aids soil stabilization for highways runways and road surfaces, with fall sand mixes remaining free-flowing in cold weather.
A witty claim by a resident that the household runs itself through the mower, washer, vacuum, stroller, and errands, implying the person in charge is the equipment and tasks that shape daily life.
A wartime Prices and Trade Board inquiry column explains procedures for obtaining essentiality certificates for hot air furnaces in new homes, how rent decisions are issued as maximum rentals, honey purchase vouchers via ration books, and the continuation of small arms ammunition permits until September 30. Readers are advised to contact local offices or request pamphlets and the Blue Book through the paper.
In Italy CWAC soldiers share daily experiences with the Canadian Army Show. A humorous misadventure arose when CWAC tropical dresses were cleaned by an Army laundry unit whose efforts shrank the garments, leaving the women unable to meet CWAC dress regulations.
Paysonal Time features Pte Sue Lemky of Edenbridge Saskatchewan with a clock showing a boots boy and a girl, reminding her of Army duties while serving with the C W A C. The piece notes changes in uniform policy allowing civilian clothing on 48 hour passes and the awkward moments it causes among officers and civilians.
The National Research Council Ottawa workshop produces Royal Air Force photographic lenses up to six inches in diameter for high altitude use. Lenses go from blank optical glass to a finished piece accurate to one hundred thousandth of an inch with grinding polishing and calibrating to a precision of a millionth of an inch. Any deviation from a true sphere blurs images captured at 20 000 to 30 000 feet.
W M Thomas of Davis Geck, western rep, notes kangaroo tendon slow absorption makes it a historical surgical suture. He lists other materials like silver wire silk linen cotton gut and nylon. He says wartime advances boost suturing and material supply remains adequate. A 15th century prayer book hours of the virgin sold in London for 550 dollars.
A collection of jokes and quips with punch lines about a German greeting on Rembrandt, a wedding couple in the city, a flippant waitress, a cautious father, a door to door salesman, Adam and Eve naming animals, a Florida hospital romance, a Wisconsin cottage blueberry tale, an Indian price hike, and a heaven divorce joke.
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