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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This nationwide bonanza would begin July 1, 1945. It would be a permanent addition to Canada's social-security program. The new payments, called family allowances, would probably be made by check, to parents and guardians. Basic monthly allowances: $5 for every child of five and under; $6 for every child of six to ten; $7 for those of ten to 13; $8 for 13-to-16-year-olds...
Whether he could begin it before Cherbourg was taken, or would have to wait for a big port to serve him, was another one for Rundstedt and Rommel to figure out. Yet another still to be answered: was the Normandy assault the big Allied effort-or was Eisenhower, a foxy strategist himself, planning another in the Calais area, or on the Bay of Biscay, or on the Mediterranean...
...week's end, Charles de Gaulle flew back to Algiers. He and his associates seemed pleased with themselves, talked confidently of impending gains for the Gaullists. London expected negotiations to begin immediately between the British Government and the Gaullist Government for some new and broadened form of recognition.* Out of all this loomed a possible solution: Britain would give De Gaulle's Government the kind of realistic recognition it wanted; the U.S. would then accept an accomplished fact and climb aboard the bandwagon...
...Lifeboat," coming to the University Theatre this weekend, can easily be recommended as one of the finest war films yet produced by Hollywood. Alfred Hitchcock, a man who has been connected with grade A pictures, seemingly which all begin on a fast-moving European express train, has come forth with another hit, but it is an innovation. All the action, and it is a long film, takes place on a lifeboat adrift in the middle Atlantic. No express train...
...gave him, D-day found Ike Eisenhower in one of his worst moods. The Supreme Commander had little to do but wait in galling idleness during the slow-treading hours before the vast fleets of landing craft and gliders could put their troops ashore, and some vestige of order begin to appear out of the vast amphibious chaos...