Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quebec, brooding on its cliff above the St. Lawrence; the Maxfield Parrish mountains of the Gaspe; storybook hamlets, and fishing fleets lying like a school of minnows in the bay. There were oxcarts and outdoor ovens, pea soup and acres of cod drying in the sun. And there was Montreal, second biggest French city in the world, with the biggest black market in Canada...
Like Manhattan, Montreal is a portal city, the doorway to French Canada. It has tourist attractions, too-the best French food and the gayest nightclubs (it also had the best bordellos...
...Kilbourn of Montreal, wartime Federal Steel Controller appointed to run the plants, promptly gave notice that he would raise wages according to the plus 10?, minus four hours formula (TIME, July...
Once, it was the gold brick. In Montreal last week it was the atom. Seven smooth swindlers dumped $500,000 worth of atom-bomb stock on scores of gullible Quebeckers. One investor, a Montreal physician, reportedly bit to the tune of $20,000. Since the atom bomb was top secret, the peddlers were mum about the way it was to be commercialized. But their fancy, engraved stock looked mighty pretty. A chunk of "deactivated bomb," a gear or two from an airplane motor, parts of a small lathe were more concrete come-ons. Provincial police, not impressed, arrested two atom...
After 16 days in court, the bloom was off little Fred Rose. At the start of his conspiracy trial in Montreal, Canada's only Communist member of Parliament had been jaunty. The defense sneered at documentary evidence produced by Igor Gouzenko, former Soviet Embassy cipher clerk, who named Rose as a "recruiting agent" for a Russian spy ring, as "ridiculous." But the Crown produced some 50 witnesses, 175 exhibits and about 30,000 words of testimony a day to prove that Fred Rose had, indeed, sold out his country. The jury verdict: guilty. Once jailed for sedition...