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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canadian Government was delighted. But it was less interested in the opening of new gold mines than in the possibility of increased postwar employment in the gold fields. In the peak year (1941), 33,500 men worked in the Dominion's gold mines. Said Deputy Mines Minister Charles Camsell last week: "The gold mines will employ 67,000 men at the very minimum soon after the war ends...
...battle to drive Germany from the air. It began some time in mid-January with heavy assaults on the German aircraft factories; it reached its peak toward the end of February (during one week when in terrific air battles 642 German fighters were shot down); and some time in March, when the German air force was outclassed, it reached a stage of exploitation, which still continues-the systematic crippling of Germany by air, which has done much to increase the success of Allied ground blows...
When the end of the European war permits the Army to reduce its 8,000,000 peak (biggest unknown now: the size of the police force required for Europe), the Army will flip through its cards and decide how high a point credit will make men eligible for release. But those who think eligibility will automatically mean quick release may be sadly disappointed...
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...June it is possible to estimate roughly how high the curve will rise in any given year (see chart). Though the disease is commonly supposed to be promoted by hot weather, the Foundation's charts indicate that weather has little to do with it; the U.S. peak almost invariably comes in mid-September, regardless of the temperature (a notable exception: 1931, when the peak came at the end of August). The disease also seems to have a general cycle of four or five years-a fact which makes it possible to determine the general areas where polio is most...