Word: moncton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chatham, Ont., Butcher James Edmonson exhorted his colleagues: "Let's shove the tokens down [Dominion Price Boss] Donald Gordon's throat." Butchers in St. John, N.B. and Edmonton, Alta. threatened to close their shops. In Moncton, N.B., meat dealers gave away half a ton of bologna, frankfurters and chicken loaf (on which few buyers would waste ration points...
...first 4,000 homing servicemen to disembark at Halifax had complaints aplenty. They had been jampacked in the troop ship Louis Pasteur, had had only two meals a day, had slept on tables and . floors. Said Airman Bert Filliter of Moncton, who had spent three years in a German prison camp: "We were prisoners of war, but they shoved us into this like fish." The returning soldiers reported that 100 men had refused to sail on the Pasteur because of conditions...
...cargo-carrying contracts with the Army's Air Transport Command, it had just landed a $1,500,000 V loan, it was growing so fast even its sponsors were dazzled. Its name: Northeast Airlines, Inc., which before the war supplied limited mail and passenger service between Boston and Moncton, N.B., with offshoots to Montreal and Presque Isle, Me. Its boss and ignition system: short, swart Samuel Joseph Solomon, who got into aviation via the airport-manager route...
...company was forced to raise $500,000 extra cash with a stock offering in 1941. But one month before Pearl Harbor President Sam Solomon made two prophetic moves: 1) he petitioned CAA to start a postgraduate pilot-training school; 2) he asked CAB for a route extension from Moncton to Newfoundland. Came Pearl Harbor, and Northeast had a head start on most other U.S. airlines. The Army promptly gave it air cargo routes across the Atlantic to Scotland, tossed in a fat pilot-training program to boot...