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...Fighter. In Belleville, lII., husky (6 ft., 180 Ib.) Edwin Taylor, 4-F because of poor vision, put the blitz on four sol diers who taunted him as a slacker. The results : two in the hospital, one runaway, one crawlaway...
...paid to shareholders, in 1942. The 12,000-mile Canadian Pacific Air Line, which blankets most of the Dominion with vital north-south routes, but is barred from the lucrative transcontinental service by the Government-owned Trans-Canada Air Lines, carried 71,000 passengers and 11.5 million Ib. of mail and cargo. Earnings from C.P.-owned telegraph and express services, hotels, grain-and ore-carrying ships on the Great Lakes, and grain elevators scattered across the prairies, were high...
Meat rationing was originally imposed not to solve a Dominion shortage but to get meat for shipment to Britain (675,000,000 Ib. of Canadian pork went to Britain last year). True, said the Wartime Prices & Trade Board, there are now great surpluses, but they are due largely to a current and presumably temporary lack of ships in which to get meat overseas. Since Britain's needs are still great, Britain will get the surpluses-sooner or later. When Britain's meat needs decline, Canadian rationing will be eased or abandoned. But not until then...
...pushed through to his Hoh River valley farm, "the Iron Man of the Hoh" packed all his supplies 20 miles by canoe or on his back. When trail crews first hacked into the fastness of Washington's Olympic Mountains, Huelsdonk earned double pay by carrying double loads-200 Ib...
...alkali. Last week's real news was that Dr. F. Ronald Edwards of the University of Liverpool has figured out a way to purify it with heat. If one of these methods can be used for mass production, the plasma supply will be almost limitless-a 1,000-Ib. steer is 7% blood...