Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ships were able to cast off and head for sea again in seven days. Reason for the haste: they hoped to be the first ships in the Antarctic for the opening, next month, of the first full-blown whaling season in five years. And the first to reach the ice-and whale-filled seas, comparatively unhunted during the war, should make a heavy killing. This year they would not have to worry about U.S. competition. There wasn...
...Mode. The ladies of the Methodist Church had cooked up a typical country dinner-baked chicken and dressing, candied sweet potatoes, cranberry jelly, salad, apple pie and ice cream. The 42-room hotel's "banquet room" was hung with pennants. Against the printed wallpaper were a Kiwanis Club shield, a Junior Chamber of Commerce emblem, a War Bond campaign thermometer...
Mackenzie King listened dutifully. By 1 p.m. he was lunching alone on shipboard on soup, roast beef, potatoes, cauliflower, ice cream, coffee. By mid-afternoon he was drinking tea, eating toast and jam on a special train bound for London. At 5:30 he was in London's Waterloo Station. Half an hour later he was on his way, by car, to the Chequers home of Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee. By Monday mid-morning bustling Mr. King was in his suite at London's Dorchester Hotel, laying out a schedule for the coming week...
C.I.S.'s boss, said the announcement, will be young (39), smart, Nova Scotia-born Geoffrey C. Andrew, W.I.B.'s secretary. Son of an Anglican clergyman, he played ice hockey at Oxford, then taught at Upper Canada College in Toronto. His job: to distribute abroad ''information concerning Canada [because] those with whom we trade must know our . . . possibilities...
...staff (probably about 150 men & women) will spend a good deal of time answering questions. During the war, W.I.B.'s New York office answered an average of 50 telephone and mail queries a day. Typical questions: Has Halifax a good private school? What provinces can an ice carnival play in on the Sabbath? "Dear Sirs: Please send all possable infermeation as I need the infermeation for school thank...