Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from fresh water will determine the future of the U.S., the power phase of the project now ranks with the navigation phase. To yoke the river's great flow (220,000 cubic feet per second) two huge dams would be thrown up in the International Rapids southwest of Montreal (see cut). Here two titanic stations would harness 820,000 kilowatts of electricity (Grand Coulee: 1,944,000 kilowatts), half for the U.S., half for Canada. Estimated cost of power development only...
...most significant new line announced last week was a 250-mile short cut from Portland (Me.) to Montreal. Standard of New Jersey has already ordered the tubing, and expects to finish the job in less than eight months. It will replace the long tanker haul around the Gaspé and up the St. Lawrence to Canada's chief distributing point. Its significance: the transport problem is a hemispheric problem, and its solution must see that the U.S.'s neighbors are served...
Instead the prison train went north from Montreal into the Laurentian Mountains, and Werra, seeing his plans upset, dived out the train window into a snowbank. Speaking French fluently, he had no difficulty hitching lifts with habitants for about 140 miles, through Ottawa to the St. Lawrence. He paddled across to the U.S. at night in a stolen boat, landing near Ogdensburg, N.Y. with his ears badly frozen...
Socks. Somewhere in England, Sapper Archie Campbell of Montreal went to his quartermaster for a new pair of socks. Attached to them was a paper saying they had been knit by Mrs. A. M. Campbell, 462 Ash Ave., Point St. Charles-his wife...
...dynamic Mrs. Dorothy Christie, wife of a Montreal ski maker, most women's war work is "a lot of hooey." Embarked on a hooeyless project of her own design, she is now collecting the last of a flood of dimes, quarters and dollars from other Canadian women named Dorothy, which should in a week or so pay for a Spitfire for the R.A.F...