Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the 83 local newspapermen who help cover the U.S. for us, TIME's correspondents in Canada are all high-ranking working journalists in their own home towns, and many are top editors on leading newspapers. In Montreal, for instance, TIME's man is Glenn Gilbert, managing editor of the Standard. Henri Poulin also guides us in handling puzzling French Canadian affairs in Quebec Province. TIME's man in Winnipeg is Nathan Zimmerman of the Tribune. Bill Stovel represents us in Regina, where his special job these past months has been to keep you posted...
Potted Chicken. In Montreal, the city morgue received a hen with a note requesting an autopsy, put the hen on ice, finally got around to examining it two weeks later, discovered that it was not dead but simply dead drunk on mash, sobered...
...doctor created a mild stir when he popped into Alexandria, Glengarry's biggest town, for the preliminaries. There he identified himself as a Montreal-born Irishman who had long served in the British Air Force, Army & Navy...
Searchers groped through the smoke-filled passageways, looking for stragglers. Brother Eugene Benoit, Montreal teacher and member of the Institution of Marist Brothers, went from cabin to cabin, smashing windows with his hands and pushing children out the portholes. Many took him for a priest and asked for absolution. Brother Benoit prayed for them...
Canada was profoundly uninterested in this arrangement. Its Government-owned Trans-Canada Air Lines plans to start flying the North Atlantic (Montreal to Prestwick, Scotland) on Sept. 1. By getting a fast start on this rich route, it expects to corral enough traffic so that it can meet all comers, will not have to split with any. In the face of Canada's determination, Lord Swinton reluctantly agreed to competition between B.O.A.C. and Canada on the North Atlantic. But he won his point on the remainder of the Empire routes, such as Britain to India, South Africa...