Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marriage Revealed. Margot Grahame, 27, British cinemactress who once advised young people to "plunge into matrimony''; and Allen McMartin, Canadian multimillionaire; near Montreal, a few days after her divorce last month from English Actor Francis Lister...
...northeastward but its path was blocked because an unusually broad high pressure plateau covered nearly the whole north Atlantic. Following the course of least resistance the pit swept northward into a low-pressure trough-across Long Island, through the heart of New England, into Canada, finally vanishing north of Montreal...
Aftermath. As the storm raced inland, veering northwest toward Montreal, it flattened crops and orchards, wrenched away miles of wires, acres of signboards. It blew away the famed Jacobs Ladder trestle on Mt. Washington. Dumping trillions of tons of rain on New England, the hurricane swelled rivers already swollen by three days of ordinary rain. Highways and railroads were washed out. In the Connecticut Valley cities marshaled sandbag brigades. Hartford held its breath while the dike by the Colt Arms factory held through a flood stage 36.45 feet. In the Thames Valley, Norwich, Conn., isolated, was supplied with food...
...English have no notion of using piggyback planes in regular transatlantic service; last week's flight of the Mercury was a simple military experiment. Nonetheless, the Mercury will twice more shuttle across the Atlantic from Foynes to Montreal and Port Washington. More serious items on Imperial Airways' transatlantic schedule: five flights by the De Havilland four-motor Albatross, four flights by the Cabot, a seaplane of the same genus as the Caledonia and the Cambria which made ten flights...
...tail for luck, a silver Lockheed monoplane roared up off Floyd Bennett Field, Long Island, one hot evening this week. The New York World's Fair 1939 was bound for Paris with a crew of four-Navigator Harry P. M. Connor, veteran of Captain Erroll Boyd's Montreal-London hop in 1930; Navigator Lieut...