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Embarrassing Moment. In Toronto, Ont., a University of Toronto professor X-rayed a royal Egyptian lady mummy in the Royal Ontario Museum, found it was the skeleton of an antelope...
...Aces. Squadron Leader Bert Houle, of Massey, Ont., commanded the crack City of Windsor Squadron which fought in Malta, the Middle East, Britain. He was best known for getting two Germans in 15 seconds. He "squirted" at one, went underneath it, saw another, "squirted" him too. He wore the D.F.C...
Meanwhile, the Detroit area (including Ford of Canada's plant across the river at Windsor, Ont.) was having more than foreman trouble. About 22,000 of the area's U.A.W.-C.I.O. workers, disgruntled for a wide variety of reasons, walked out. Union officials pleaded with the wildcat strikers, cajoled, threatened to resign. WLB sent stern back-to-work orders. Most of Detroit's strikers gave in. But at week's end the score stood: 17,500 workers still out, three plants shut down...
Most people have heard that fluorine probably has something to do with keeping teeth healthy. They have read about the happy, cavity-free citizens of Deaf Smith County, Tex., where fluorine exists in judicious quantities in soil and water (TIME, Nov. 10, 1941). They have seen movies of Ripley, Ont., which has so much natural fluorine that the dentists' chief occupation is holding citizens' mouths open to display their perfect teeth. These demonstrations make laymen wonder why experimental use of fluorine has been limited to a few small-scale ventures...
Last week came the news that fluorine is to be tried out with whole towns as guinea pigs. Under the auspices of the New York State and Ontario Health Departments, Newburgh, N.Y. (pop. 32,000) and Brantford, Ont. (pop. 32,000) will soon have fluorine added to their water supplies at the rate of one part of fluorine to a million of water. The experiment will run ten years. Though adding fluorine to water is cheap (about $1,200 a year), these are the first towns...