Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Montreal, 125 protesters met in the dingy, third-floor hall of the Hotel & Restaurant Employees' Union. The chairman, Mrs. Ethel Leigh, told sadly of a delegation which had waited on Finance Minister Douglas Abbott in Ottawa. One delegate had said she had eight children, to which Abbott cracked: "You must do pretty well out of family allowances, eh?" The delegation was not amused. Said Mrs. Leigh: "We intend to increase pressure on the government until they realize that the people of Canada are serious in their protests. We mean business...
...Montreal...
...good & sore. There had been no organized buyers' strikes, but there was plenty of buyer resistance, and it was having some effect. In Vancouver, sales of beef, bacon and fresh pork were down, even after retailers shaved prices a little. It was the same in Calgary, Toronto and Montreal. In Halifax, the City Council took up a resolution urging provincial and federal governments to "do something immediately about the constantly rising cost of foods," and passed it unanimously...
...from the U.S., now largely banned) there was no remedy yet. Abbott did a little muscle-flexing and told the Prices Board to start "exemplary prosecutions" where prices are "higher than is reasonable and just." While government leaders talked of scaring the daylights out of the profiteers, housewives in Montreal still paid 59? a head for lettuce...
After the war he ran the Atlantic division of the biggest airline of all-the Air Transport Command. For the last 16 months he has been the U.S. representative on the International Civil Aviation Organization at Montreal. He impressed Air Secretary Stu Symington and Commerce Secretary W. Averell Harriman by his negotiating of international air routes. They recommended him to Harry Truman...