Word: corman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were startled to learn that Casa Loma had been the hush-hushest of all Canadian war plants. In 1942, when the Germans bombed out an English plant making supersecret sonic submarine detectors, the British Admiralty picked the engineering works of William Gorman, in Toronto, to do the job. Bill Corman picked an unlikely spot: the huge Casa Loma's stables...
...year and a half, 500 detectors, 4,800 transmitting and receiving sets were turned out, installed in ships, helped lick U-boats. Corman filled the last of $2,000,000 worth of orders...
...Attorney General John Wesley Corman, 56, is the Cabinet's oldest member, its strongest personality. When appointed, he was in his fifth term as mayor of Moose Jaw (pop: 20,500). Eastern bred and eastern educated (Toronto University), he is now as western as Moose Jaw. He firmly believes the rural west has had a raw deal from St. James Street (Canada's Wall Street...