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...Cabinet colleague cynically put it, Trudeau was simply unable to "bleed a little" for the electorate. At the same time, the Prime Minister scraped the bottom of pork-barrel politics, promising such "goodies," or so he called them, as a wharf for Yarmouth, N.S., new port facilities for Halifax and a federal park for Toronto. The effect on the voters was evident at the polls. Early in the campaign the Liberals were favored by 44% of the voters who had made up their minds, while 31% were for the Conservatives, 25% for the New Democrats and others; but 11% remained...
...Albany, 124 miles up the Hudson River. Company officials expect that distribution costs will be lower out of Albany, even though the new location adds eleven hours of travel time. Some Midwestern shippers are abandoning U.S. docks entirely in favor of ports at Saint John, New Brunswick, and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Canadian laws permit railroads and shipping companies to offer combined freight rates at substantial discounts; such discounts are prohibited in the U.S. Even such distinctively U.S. products as Playboy magazine, Kodak film, and Michigan beans (which in a later incarnation are known as Boston baked beans) now depart from...
...March 1941 to March 1942 he worked on a chemistry research project at Harvard, waiting impatiently for clearance by the FBI to rejoin the Free French Forces in England. Mayer was reactivated in the spring of 1942 and joined a convoy in the Notrh Atlantic. "I was torpedoed off Halifax soon after," he says. "Betty (whom he met at Harvard) flew in from Boston to see me in the hospital. We found two strangers to be witnesses and we were married the day she arrived...
When the second plane put down at its next refueling stop in Halifax, N.S., its crew immediately wondered why the first had not yet arrived. So did U.S. Air Force radarmen, who had been monitoring the course of both flights. The answer, apparently, was that No. 09303 -one of 20 such operational planes in the Soviet fleet-had crashed into the North Atlantic off the southeastern tip of Greenland...
...that the Soviets were carefully photographing the field-one that Russian planes almost never visit-and their suspicions were confirmed when they saw men in the tail camera ports of some planes. It may be assumed that the cameramen also keep busy when Moscow's mercy fleet circles Halifax and Bogotá, Colombia, two other refueling stops along...