Word: labrador
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago the British Empire was jolted by a rumor: because the Government of Newfoundland was unable to find buyers for a mere $8,000,000 bond issue, worried Premier Sir Richard Squires was preparing to raise the money by selling Labrador to "foreign interests" (TIME, June...
...Richard, rushing from St. John's to Montreal to New York and back, trying to borrow money, insisted that the Colony was not bankrupt, that Newfoundland's financial difficulties were a political plot. Asked pointblank about the Labrador rumor, he said...
Despite this apparent denial, stories about the sale of Labrador persisted. One version was that Labrador was about to be sold to a "group of international bankers," who were risking their money because they believed that the world's next great gold strike might be made there...
...conference took place at Matameck Factory, Copley Amory's manor on Moisie Bay, near the Labrador boundary. A rich Boston merchant who has canoed and snowshoed over a great part of north central Canada, Copley Amory, 65, rebuilt a ruined Hudson's Bay trading post as a refuge from hayfever and a base for fishing. The few Indians and whites in the neighborhood have found in him their patron in sickness and want. Serious want comes to the Canadian backwoods families about every ten years. The game upon which they depend for food and profit runs through...
...both from the apathy of newsreels and from the pretentiousness of most commercialized films intended to be exotic. Best shot in The Viking is an iceberg with waves breaking against it. Producer Frissell wanted also to make a shot of an iceberg turning over and had gone back to Labrador to try to get one when the Viking blew up. Before The Viking's Manhattan premiere last week, Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Fox Frissell gave a dinner to Governor and Mrs. Pinchot; their other son, Phelps Montgomery Frissell, was killed eight years ago while climbing in the Alps...