Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chain of events which led to the shortage began almost two years ago when strikes shut down several Canadian and American mills, John Giuggio, business manager of the Boston Globe, said yesterday...
...Globe normally uses 120,000 tons of paper from nine suppliers. "It's usually split about 50/50 American and Canadian," Giuggio explained. "We had to deal with an Italian concern to get paper this year, though," he added...
...added that the MBTA is looking into Canadian LRV's, which could be used on a demonstration basis as early as January. But he said riders on the Green Line will not have optimum service for at least a year...
Shortly before midnight on Nov. 10, tankers on a 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train, bound from Windsor to Toronto, jumped the tracks. Three explosions from cars carrying propane sent flames that towered into the sky and rattled windows 30 miles away. Firemen at the scene sniffed acrid fumes leaking from one tanker that contained 81 tons of liquefied chlorine; if that car exploded, its contents could turn into a modern equivalent of the deadly fog at Ypres. Within hours, provincial authorities ordered the largest evacuation in Canadian history; with surpassing smoothness, and little panic, most of the city...
Mavis Gallant. The name has a romantic ring to it, suggesting a pretty girl, sunlight on English countryside and happy endings, possibly during the Battle of Britain. But no modern writer casts a colder eye on life, on death and all the angst and eccentricity in between. A Canadian, Mrs. Gallant has lived in France since World War II. There she produces her lapidary long stories and an occasional dazzling short novel, usually set in Europe. Her work appears regularly in The New Yorker. Canada seems about to give her the Governor General's Literary Award...