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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 27, 1944
Page
3
The passage notes the enduring impact of weather on Western Canada’s crops. It cites weather as a constant hazard to national endeavors and highlights drought’s destructive effect on prairie life and farming.
The article argues weather governs naval and air operations, aiding Dunkirk evacuation and D Day landings, noting Eisenhower's famed weather luck. It cites abnormal moisture in France slowing Allied advances and highlights climate as a crucial factor beside enemy resistance.
Weather forecasts are essential for aviation and save lives and equipment. Global meteorological services expand to support postwar flight routes. Canada operates a robust, growing system with staff increased over tenfold in seven years to meet future air travel needs.
Canadian neighborhoods see teen clubs filling Friday and Saturday nights as wholesome recreational resorts. Churches host and supervise in quiet spaces like basements or halls, offering gramophones, juke boxes, crafts, drama, hobbies, and photography under late midnight closings. Winnipeg suburb hosts a large, successful example.
A bridge built for a railroad in Australia was the costliest engineering project yet only one train has crossed it in 55 years. It cost about $100,000 and authorities chose an alternate route, avoiding the bridge after the initial run.
Report notes Canada remains the leading producer of asbestos, with significant output shaping global supply in mining and export markets.
Cherbourg is described as a hurried entry point for tourists, a place to land and depart rather than stay. Visitors rush to Paris, leave with empty wallets, and find the port offer little beyond transit. The piece paints Cherbourg as a transient stop, not a meaningful locale.
The Canadian Pacific Railway irrigation program in Southern Alberta would be handed over to local farmers as a going concern. CPR proposes to relinquish its investment in irrigation canals and headworks after proving feasibility, following prior Eastern and Western project practices that handed over similarly valuable irrigation works to farmers at Brooks and Strathmore.
An estimated 62 percent of the global population aged over 10 is illiterate. The figure reflects widespread literacy challenges across regions and ages, highlighting the need for enhanced educational access and literacy programs worldwide.
Canadian lard stockpiles rose from 2.2 million to 19 million pounds by April as officials pursued export outlets. By March 1 the buildup caused concern over storage space and hog prices, but shipments to Russia and other limits eased the surplus. Details of shipments were not released for security reasons.
Austrian professor Herman Oberth, in his fifties, emerges as the key figure behind the flying bomb project. Once a fireworks technician for UFA films, he reportedly operated with anti Nazi leanings at times and has spent seven years developing rocket tech under orders from Hitler and Goering. Oberth gained access to Wehrmacht labs and a panel of scientists after presenting blueprints and models to General Kesselring. European scientific circles soon heard of his catapult plane experiments.
The Florentine halls in Palazzo Venezia once used by popes and commandeered by Mussolini in 1927 as a private office have been restored to their former function as part of the Museum of Italian Renaissance Art.
The article notes beauty salons existed in ancient Egypt as far back as 3200 B C indicating early grooming culture. It highlights historical significance of personal care practices and social importance of appearance in ancient society.
Canada has delivered 464,000,000 pounds of bacon to Britain by July 1 1944 under a two year pact. The agreement calls for a 900,000,000 pound minimum in 1944 and 1945, with officials optimistic the 1944 total may reach 800,000,000 pounds or more as hog slaughter surges.
An Italian army photographer earned fame by shooting 19 Nazis while with Allied forces near Valmontone as they moved with French troops. He used a machine gun and a camera in the same action, reflecting the army spirit across recruits.
The Brantford Expositor reports Dr. D. B. McLaughlin’s calculations for a solar nova. If the sun erupted, it would shine 100000 times brighter for about ten days and raise surface heat enough to boil oceans and melt rocks to liquid and vapor, affecting only about seven miles of the crust.
Trans-Canada Air Lines operates a trans Atlantic service carrying mail for Canadian forces overseas. Since weekly launches, more than 50,000,000 letters have crossed 95 times between Montreal and the United Kingdom. Flights cover 3,100 miles in about eleven hours with Lancaster freighters carrying up to 8,000 pounds of mail and war equipment.
A D-Day incident recounts a disabled towing rope causing a glider to perform a reciprocal turn and land near the English coast. RAF personnel rushing to the scene were confronted by armed, blackened faces shouting Achtung until the newcomer's English surprised them.
The Nazi publication Das Schwarze Korps credits the German flying bomb offensive with averting a severe internal crisis for Hitler's regime. It frames retaliation pledges as a prestige test and warns against early disillusionment or overconfidence as results unfold.
The piece notes the shift from the 1940 march against England to Die Wacht Am Kanal as Allied advances at Cherbourg force Germany to rethink their wartime anthem. It implies a future revival of The Watch on the Rhine but doubts it will last.
A compact collection of quotations on ambition self improvement and virtue from Blake Edwards Brooke Brooke Beecher Eddy and Arnold. Each line offers a proverb about striving to elevate character imitate moral ideals and pursue noble ends.
Accounts reaching New York describe mass killings and burning of Distomo Greece and Oradour sur Glane France by German troops. Distomo allegedly killed about 1,000 villagers on June 10 after a brief guerrilla engagement, while Oradour saw 1,100 of 1,200 residents slain and the village burned after hostages were killed in Limoges region.
The Sault Daily Star notes that while Soviet Russia may excel in northern development, it must be remembered the USSR has 180 million people versus Canada’s 12 million. This demographic scale affects the comparison of national achievements.
The piece notes China’s long ancient history spanning around 4,000 years while calling it one of the world’s younger republics in modern times, highlighting contrast between past civilizations and current political status.
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