Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...restrictions Gordon slapped on the Canadian public in 1941, designed to stop inflation, were the most stringent of any democracy's until Australia, in the face of Japanese invasion, went for all-out conscription. Canadians took them in their stride. But last week they wondered what next. In Montreal, their No. 1 economic controller announced that Canada's present competitive system must be replaced by one "based entirely on the criterion of maximum production...
...first batch of 25 ladybirds will go first to Montreal, for physical examinations and transition tests (to check their ability to switch from light to heavy aircraft), then take off for London. Where they will go after that is anybody's guess. Only 50 British women are now serving as ferry pilots-shuttling planes about England, but not on long hops. Formerly restricted to training craft, they now fly every type of combat plane, except four-motored bombers (Flying Fortresses...
Fauré: Requiem (Marcelle Denya, soprano, Mack Harrell, baritone, Roland Roy, organist, Les Disciples de Massenet chorus, Montreal Festivals Orchestra conducted by Wilfred Pelletier; Victor; 9 sides). A beautiful, almost overrefined French deathpiece, finely done...
Ernest Lapointe, 65 years old, worn out by diabetes and the strain of war work, lay ill in a Montreal hospital. Once he stirred from a coma, looked up into the eyes of his wife and daughter. "You all alive?" he said. "Good. So am I. We'll celebrate. Give me some water. . . ." Then he died...
Died. Ernest Lapointe, 65, Canadian Minister of Justice, foremost French Canadian political leader; of diabetes and a lung infection; in Montreal...