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...Howe carefully sold off the government-owned plants to private industries that could run them. A Winnipeg factory that had been turning out airplane propellers switched to making trappers' boats. Aircraft plants began producing Canadian-designed planes: Beavers, the Avro Jetliner, and an all-weather jet fighter, the CF-100. In Quebec City, 140 acres of factories were converted to a privately owned industrial center. By 1948, practically all the government plants, except some unconvertible explosives factories and the $75 million Polymer synthetic rubber plant at Sarnia, Ont, had been sold. The explosives plants are useful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Indispensable Ally | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

Snobs & Farm Girls. Stephen Crane struck the first modern note with tight-lipped stories that anticipated Hemingway and all the little Hemingways. Out West, Frank Norris and Jack London spoke up bluntly. Norris, remarks Critic Brooks, "had Zola's nose for the odor cf stale bedding and of creosote"; London wrote rowdy stories in which "one heard the perpetual crunch-crunch of bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grand American Tour | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

Harvard Pildner, g: Weiss, if: Toro, rf: Szaraz, rhb: Haegler, chb; Jobbins, jhb; Youmans or Cowperthwaite, fr: Wise, cf: Blumenfeld, il; Fransioli...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '55 Booters Will Play MIT 11 at 2 pm Today | 10/30/1951 | See Source »

HARVARD: Pildner, g; Janeway, rfb; Young, ifb; Szaraz, rhb; Haegler, chb; Jobbins, ihb; Yeomans or Cowperthwaite, ir; Toro, cf; Blumenfeld, il; Fransioli...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Soccer Team Bows To Exeter, 3-2; Toro Excells | 10/18/1951 | See Source »

This is the key. The Yankees have recently sold (not even traded) Dick Kryhoski, 1b, Bill Johnson, 3b, and Cliff Mapes, rf-cf. They still have such spares as Jensen and Bauer, lf-cf, Coleman, 2b, Mize, 1b, and Martin 2b-ss. And the only time they have a man out of the position he was born to is when the sensational Gil McDougald plays third...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 10/11/1951 | See Source »

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