Word: cartier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, the majestic Saguenay River defaulted on its promise. Jacques Cartier was fooled by the Indians' tales of a great kingdom in its valley, and of another empire beyond that, rich in silver & gold, diamonds & rubies. Explorers soon found that this icy, inky tributary of the St. Lawrence was no Northwest Passage: it was navigable for only 80 miles. Above the Indian village of Chicoutimi, "the end of the deep water," the river ran white and turbulent-and, it seemed, useless-from Lake St. John...
...ways which Explorer Cartier never conceived, the Saguenay is yielding great riches: $21½ million profit after paying $11½ million in taxes...
...Manhattan, Gimbels was doing a good business in grand pianos and $4,000 mink coats. Cartier was having no trouble selling superexpensive jewelry. Example: a three-strand diamond necklace with matching earrings for $29,000. Capehart de luxe record players were in demand at $1,595. Many a shopper took expensive Lionel electric trains ($22.50 to $75) in preference to cheaper sets. Everywhere, luxury items vanished rapidly from store counters...
...Communists got a hard kick in the pants from voters in what had long been one of Communism's Canadian strongholds. The scene was Montreal's Cartier riding, which had elected a Communist to the Dominion House of Commons the last two times it voted. In a by-election this week, to fill a vacancy left by the imprisonment of Communist and Traitor Fred Rose, a seat in the House was won by Liberal Maurice Hartt, a self-made lawyer who once sewed buttonholes for a living...
...victory was desperately needed. It strengthened the thin Liberal majority in the House of Commons (now 127 seats against 117 for the combined Opposition). It also seemed to indicate a brightened party future. The Liberals, after three by-election defeats in a row, now had won two straight (in Cartier and in Riche-lieu-Verchères last December). In Ottawa, Liberal masterminds sighed with relief...