Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William James Mayo, famed surgeon of Rochester, Minn., sailed last week from Montreal to attend a British medical convention. Said he: "Canadian affairs feel the influence of a billion dollars of American capital, but American affairs feel the influence of ten billion dollars worth of Canadian brains. . . . At Rochester, 20% of our staff is Canadian, and I remember that 10% of the American Surgeons' Association is Canadian too. In all matters except politics, and particularly in science, the two countries...
...English collegians are to sail for Montreal on Friday, and they will meet a picked team in the Canadian metropolis on July 6, before entering the United States for its meet in the Stadium The Oxford-Cambridge team, as was the case in 1925 also will meet a combined team of Princeton and Cornell athletes on teh Saturday following the Harvard-Yale engagement...
Winnipeg last week conducted an aviation meet and aircraft exhibition. It was the biggest, most important air event of Canada's year, surpassing in extent and influence Montreal's exhibition, earlier in May. More than 70 planes showed at Winnipeg. Many competed in races and stunts. They carried hundreds of passengers. Makes included: de Havilland Moth, Avro Avian, Huff Daland, Lockheed Vega, American Eagle, Fokker, Junkers, Cessna, Fairchild, Ford, Waco, Hamilton, Douglas, Laird, Ryan, Travel Air, Monocoupe, Curtiss Robin...
...problem than the U. S. and it was by action in that quarter that U. S. relief plans may yet be nullified. The Canadian wheat surplus on April 1 was 246 million bushels which also had to be moved out before the new crop came in. The Port of Montreal was congested with surplus grain. Eleven vessels with large wheat cargoes cleared last week, starting the flow to Europe. To retain Canada's present 8 cent freight advantage to the world market, its railroad executives prepared to discuss rate reductions correspondingly below the new U. S. rates...
...drug companies. In March, 1929, McKesson & Robbins, Inc., announced the acquisition of 18 additional companies. Last week J. S. Merrell Drug Co. was sold to McKesson & Robbins, began to operate as a McKesson & Robbins subsidiary. In addition to its U. S. companies, McKesson & Robbins has branches in London, Paris, Montreal, Kobe, Shanghai, Hankow, and many a South American city. The 1928 net earnings of the 16 original companies...