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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 20, 1949
Page
4
Contractors warn projects may slip by days or weeks as shortages of materials and labor drive up prices. Local firms say many jobs now stretch longer than planned with schedules compressed by supply chain disruptions.
An ad for Mary Maxim in Lifton Man offers warm extra long wearing yarn in multiple colors at 1.98 per pound for 10 pounds or more 1.80 per pound delivered. A stray line then notes a soldier admiring a dress and a quip about the dress maker being the police.
A humorous exchange features a driver asking for wild duck, a waiter offering to irritate one, and a mother scolding a son who boasts his long reach while claiming his arm is longer. The banter plays on appetite and improvised kitchen service with sharp family dynamics.
The U N International Refugee Organization expands language training by deploying 1000 linguaphone sets to teach English French and Spanish to refugees. Up to 60000 learners could study at once at resettlement centers camps and ships with daily one hour sessions over four months. The program also employs about 500 language teachers across three zones of occupied Germany.
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