Word: capes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...walkout of coal miners at Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, last month, was the subject of an interpellation in the House of Commons at Ottawa. Miss Agnes MacPhail asked if the Government intended to sit calmly "while thousands are starving in Cape Breton." James A. Robb, Minister of Finance, stated laconically that no change of policy was contemplated. The strike grew out of an attempt to apply a 10% wage cut, but did not become active until the coal company contended that the workers had overdrawn their credit at the company's supply stores, cut off further credit. Twelve thousand...
...West Longitude to about 120° East Longitude, and from the 77th parallel to the North Pole, lies a vast region never explored by man, a "blind spot" on the most modern of maps. In 1906, three years before he reached the Pole, Admiral Peary stood on a cape of Ellesmere Land, looked northwest, swore he could discern, about 120 miles off, the peaks and promontories of what has since been called Crocker Land. In 1914, Peary's old lieutenant, Explorer MacMillan, struck out from Axel Heiberg Land over the floes for 150 miles-and found nothing...
...running these boats without loss to the Government?in fact with an operating profit of about $2,000,000 during the year ending Feb. 28, 1925?and that the Government was therefore under no pressure to sell them. (A major reason for sale of Government ships is to es- cape operating loss.) But, they agreed, if the Government is determined to sell, it should accept their bid because it provided that, after three years, 50% of the profits above the Government's preferred stock dividend and above their own 6% common stock dividend would go into a building-fund...
...Union of South Africa). The prince will land at Cape Town on Apr. 30 for a stay of three months and will pay numerous visits throughout the Union, to the Provinces of the Orange Free State, Natal, Transvaal, taking in Swaziland en route and extending the tour to Southern and Northern Rhodesia...
...action on the proposal for Government purchase of the Cape Cod Canal...