Word: montreal
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Four months ago Sir Frederick left Britain and a berth as head of the vital R.A.F. Coastal Command on two days' notice. Twelve hours later, having flown the Atlantic, he went to work in Montreal. Less spectacular than the Coastal Command, his new job was now more vital to Britain's defense. He took over for the R.A.F. the critical task of seeing that U.S. bombers got to Britain, quickly and safely...
Died. Sir Herbert Samuel Holt, 85, Canada's biggest financier, one of its wealthiest men; in Montreal. Born in Ireland's County Kildare, he emigrated to Canada at 19, rose from railroad laborer to contractor to utilities magnate by the age of 45, when he organized Montreal Light, Heat & Power Co., now capitalized at $64,000,000. He became president of the Royal Bank of Canada, increased its assets more than tenfold, organized the $100,000,000 Canada Power & Paper Corp., went into textiles, mining, insurance, railways, in his lifetime shared control with his associates of some...
Morton R. Godine, of Montreal, P.Q., Canada, as teaching fellow in Government and tutor; M.A. McGill...
...great Nazi musical and ideological hero, a survey in Variety last week showed that there is no U.S. reaction whatever against German music. Even Canada can take it. Variety reported that Tenor Melchior, in deference to supposed Canadian tastes, lately omitted German numbers from a recital in Montreal. His audience shouted for German encores, got them...
Best long-distance answer is pipelines. But each time oilmen push pipelines they crash head on with railroad lobbies. Of the four new pipelines proposed, only one-a 250-mile line between Portland, Me. and Montreal-was under unimpeded construction last week. Congress still stewed over the Cole Bill (granting rights of way to pipelines). If it passes despite railroad opposition, and new pipelines are laid at once, they will still carry no oil before next spring...