Cunarder Caronia to make Mediterranean spring cruise
Cunarder Caronia sails from New York May 28 1961 for a 39 day 12 120 mile spring voyage in the Mediterranean. Rates start at 975 dollars with 34 000 ton luxury liner visiting Madeira Tangier Palma Balearic Islands Valetta Malta Athens Dubrovnik Venice Catania Messina Naples Villefranche Barcelona Malaga Gibraltar Oibón Cherbourg and Southampton. Shore excursions arranged by Thos Cook and Son and return passage in 11 Cunard liners included.
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Cunard
Caronia
Mediterranean
New York
Funchal
Madeira
Tangier
Morocco
Palma
Balearic Islands
Valetti
Malta
Athens
Greece
Dubrovnik
Yugoslavia
Venice
Italy
Catania
Messina
Sicily
Naples
Villefranche
French Riviera
Barcelona
Malaga
Spain
Gibraltar
Oibon
Portugal
Cherbourg
France
Southampton
England
Thos Cook and Son
Household Arts Department P P L Poronto
A brief item notes the Household Arts division located at 60 Front Street West in Poronto. The entry provides an address reference for department contact or correspondence and suggests a local government or organizational unit listing.
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Department P.P.L
Front Street
Poronto
Pattern Number 7253 Colors Car Panels for Recreation Room
Collectors enjoy old time gulos color panels and cross stitch car pictures for a recreation room. The pattern 7253 offers two 8 by 2 inch panels with a color chart. Send thirty five cents to Household Arts Department at 00 Front Street W Toronto for pattern printing.
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Conversat
Attern
Household Arta
P.P.L
Front Street
Toronto
Shell Oil wins awards at Vancouver Festival
Shell Oil wins two awards at the 1960 Vancouver International Film Festival for The Drama of Metal Forming and Schlieren. The films, from Shell's Canadian film library, showcase metal forming methods and the Schlieren technique, with Shell libraries available in Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal for borrowing at no charge to eligible groups.
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Shell
Calgary
Vancouver
Toronto
Montreal
Marquis Wheat Feature Broadcast On U S Radio
Canadian wheat story titled This is Canada will be aired in August on over 400 U S stations reaching about 70 million listeners. Produced by the CNR as a public service, narrator Peter Roberts highlights Sir Charles Saunders discovery that led Western Canada to become the breadbasket of the Commonwealth.
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Canada
U.S
CNR
Peter Roberts
Charles Saunders
Western
Commonwealth
Emperor penguin egg care by both parents
The emperor penguin shares duties with the female in tending the egg. They alternate roles and keep the egg off the ice by balancing it on their feet.
Overweight Seen as Major North American Health Issue
Dr. E. Vincent Askey, president of the American Medical Association, says Americans and Canadians eat well but exercise less, leading to widespread overweight. He cites obesity as a risk to long life, endorses personal weight control, notes a suspected cancer link to smoking, and discusses hospital cost factors tied to labor and patient needs.
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North America
Health League of Canada
E. Vincent Askey
American Medical Association
Dr. Askey
Rutherford Win Ties Past to Atom Power Discovery
A 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Ernest Rutherford highlights his early work at McGill. He established uranium radioactivity and the splitting of the atom, laying groundwork for nuclear power and weapons before his death in 1937 as a Baron in England.
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Ernest Rutherford
Baron Rutherford
England
McGill
Basking shark nets 30 feet in California waters
A basking shark measured 30 feet long and weighed about 8,600 pounds, comparable to the combined heft of 45 men, spotted in California coastal waters. The sighting highlighted the creature’s size and the powerful ocean life off the state.
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California
Crossword by Eugene Sheffer Horizontal 48 Across and Down Clues
Crossword by Eugene Sheffer presents a mixed themed set of clues from African bread antelope to university officers and historical terms with solution timing and publication notes, listing many entries such as capital cities, foods, animals, plants, and common phrases across and down.
Waterway lock could open Saskatchewan River to Winnipeg trade
The Pas Chamber urges both Manitoba and federal governments to build a Grand Rapids lock to raise water levels and allow ships and barges to travel from The Pas to Winnipeg. A navigable river would lower freight costs, boost local industry, and attract further development in mining, timber, and agriculture across the Saskatchewan watershed.
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Pas Chamber of Commerce
Manitoba
Grand Rapids
Pas
Winnipeg
Saskatchewan River
Saskatchewan
Hudson Bay
Grand Rapids Dam
Squaw Rapids
Fort A la Corne
Edmonton
Lost on a rural road rekindles relaxation and nostalgia
A nostalgic guide celebrates short rural drives to escape city heat and tension. The piece describes how a leisurely country road trip near nature eases nerves, lowers stress, and brings family joy as quiet landscapes replace traffic and worry.
Gas exports from Canada to U S to rise by 1963
Canada will boost natural gas exports to the United States from about 18 million dollars today to 93 million dollars annually by 1963. The higher exports are expected to spur drilling, adding roughly 2 500 billion cubic feet a year to Canada’s gas reserves for the next decade.
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Canada
U.S
Canadian coal ships to Japan at ten fifty per ton
The Japanese steel industry ordered 225000 tons of western Canadian coal at 10.50 dollars per ton including shipping. The Canadian government will pay a subvention of 4.50 dollars per ton on the purchase. A sentence about the dragon tree resin from the Canary Islands follows.
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Cunarder Caronia
Mom
Baby
Alice Brookes
Shell Oil
Emperor Penguin
TNS
Ontario Department of Lands and Forests
Guess
LNA
Pie
Les
Eugene Sheffer
India
Sun
King Features Synd., Inc
Ancient
Phoenicia
Chow
TSS
Citese
The
Northern Mail
Japan
Canary Island
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