Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Richard (pronounced Ree-shar) put on his 12 Ibs. of shin & shoulder pads, ankle-length underwear, skates and stovepipe pants, skated onto the ice before Montreal's largest hockey crowd of the season (12,674). Once during the evening, against the arch-rival Toronto Maple Leafs, the crowds got what they came to see. There was a pass, a swift attack by Richard on the cage, a flick of his stick; and The Rocket had scored. The stands rang with cowbells, cheers and whistles...
Canadian Vickers Ltd. built the [Montreal] factory for the Government to manufacture Catalina aircraft during the war. Canadian Vickers Ltd. discontinued its aircraft operations on Nov. u, 1944, and has had nothing to do with the operation of the factory since that time...
...Montreal...
...joint Arctic establishments, took the news of the agreement calmly. In Moscow, the New Times, as expected, squawked that the U.S. was "turning Canada . . . into its own military base." But many Canadians thought that the trouble with the agreement was that it did not go far enough. Said the Montreal Star: "Whether the U.S. seeks bases or not, no effective defense arrangements can be made without bases. There can and should be bases manned and operated by the two countries in collaboration...
Last week the weather reports from the Laurentians sounded forbidding to all but skiers. With three feet of snow already on the ground it was "snowing hard." And the special ski trains, first since 1940, rolled steadily north out of Montreal...