Word: capes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more concretely, the victory was due to the inability of the Liberal Government, headed by Premier E. H. Armstrong, to deal effectively with the Cape Breton strike and its resultant economic depression...
...conceded, in view of the Cape Breton mining strike (TiME, Apr. 20, June 22), which was accompanied by violence and severe economic depression, that the Liberals would lose a few seats, that Labor would hold its own, that the Conservatives would make insignificant gains...
...Nova Scotia is about two-thirds the size of the State of Maine and the density of its population (523,837) is about equal. On Cape Breton Island, part of the Province, is situated Canada's biggest steel works...
...success of this search would rest largely on whether or not Amundsen had got marooned on drift ice, which would carry him southeast, around the tip of Greenland at the 'rate of about 10 miles a day. MacMillan's third plane would wait at Etah or Cape Columbia in case the rescuers needed rescuing...
Last week, MacMillan's planes, under Lieut. Commander Richard E. Byrd, flew from Philadelphia via the Delaware River, foggy Montauk Point, L. I., and the Cape Cod Canal, to Boston, where Mayor Curley gave a luncheon for the fliers. MacMillan also attended this ceremonial meal, then returned to Southport, Me., where he had just taken his schooner Bozvdoin to have her sails bent on. His own ship, the Peary, waited at Wiscasset, Me., where the dismantled planes were to be loaded aboard and the start made on Bunker Hill Day (June 17). Governor Brewster of Maine planned the event...