Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Team Hits Montreal...
Hardly a day after Abbott's announcements, shortages appeared and prices spurted. Overnight, cars were up as much as $500. In Montreal, spinach jumped from 12? a lb. to 28?, green beans from 30? to 43?, lettuce from 16? to 29?, electric toasters from $12.50 to $15.63, refrigerators from $350 to $437. The spurt brought back price ceilings this week on processed foods...
Gillette's seven foreign plants (Berlin, London, Buenos Aires, Paris, Zurich, Montreal and Rio de Janeiro) are also working at capacity. In foreign trade, Spang had gotten around the lack of dollars and other currency troubles by a system of "compensation trading." Thus, Swiss-made blades are being exchanged in Italy for tomatoes, asparagus, and strawberries, in Austria for wood, in Czechoslovakia for glass. The goods are then sold in Switzerland for francs and the francs exchanged for U.S. dollars to buy raw materials for Gillette's foreign factories...
...McGill at Montreal...
...Montreal's McGill University Observatory found that the city had an average temperature of 57° over the first 24 days of October, three degrees above the record. Quebec hay-fever sufferers complained that the warm days had brought back their sniffles. Violets bloomed in Westmount. It was dry too-the fourth driest October on record. There had been only .85 inches of rain all month in Montreal...