Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranged along a provincial highway. Ten Mounties on foot kept a wary eye on more than 100 picketing loggers of the striking International Woodworkers of America, set on intercepting non-I.W.A. loggers. When the I.W.A. halted a sedan to threaten the four passengers in it, the Mounties radioed Grand Falls for help. More Mounties and provincial constables rushed to the scene. Police night sticks and loggers' crude clubs swung through the chilly air. Provincial Constable William J. Moss, 24, caught a blow on the head from a birch club, died in a hospital 30 hours later...
...Development Co. Ltd. and Bowater's Pulp & Paper Mills Ltd., are faced with the rising cost of cutting logs in Newfoundland's skimpy forests. Newfoundland Premier Joseph Roberts Smallwood, fearful that further cost increases might endanger the companies' operations, moved in to settle the dispute at Grand Falls. Liberal Smallwood, once a union organizer, rammed a bill through the provincial legislature decertifying the I.W.A., while personally creating the rival N.B.W.W. Most Newfoundlanders, including Smallwood's Conservative opposition in the legislature, agreed that the province's solvency was at stake, sided with the Premier...
...scheduled to go into production in the 1960s. In Newfoundland and Labrador, surveyors uncovered promising finds of copper, lead and zinc, asbestos, fluorspar, gypsum and uranium. Perhaps even more significant was the exploration of sites on Labrador's Hamilton River that could develop as much hydroelectric power as Grand Coulee and Hoover Dam combined. Next step: to develop a market for this untapped storehouse of kilowatts...
Cimarron City (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Have Sword, Will Duel presents a dazzling mixture of nationalities: a visiting Russian, Grand Duke Nicolai Alexandrovitch Danovsky, gets involved with an Irish adventurer named O'Hara, and a Latin morsel known as Conchita Lolita Sarita...
Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). A revival of George M. Cohan's grand old (1906) musical, Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway...