Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peter C. Zoephel '43, of Winthrop House and Chislehurst, England, is leaving college today by car for Montreal, where he will join the Royal Canadian Air Force, it was revealed last night...
Zoephel said that he had not definitely been accepted yet, but that he had successfully passed the physical examination while he was in Canada during the Christmas vacation, and had assurance that he would be "finally considered" as soon as he reached Montreal...
...trainload of German prisoners chugged north through the Laurentians from Montreal, one day last week. One of them, a jug-eared, wiry young man, kept his nose pressed against the windowpane, his eyes on the bleak Canadian countryside. Baron. Franz von Werra, pursuit pilot with a score of 14 British planes, was a more valuable cog in the Reich's war machine than most of his fellows on the train. And he intended to get back where he belonged...
From Alexander Pollock, General Manager of Montreal's Henry Morgan & Co., Ltd., came front-line support for McNair's prognosis. He said that while retail sales in Canada had increased 12% in 1940, profits had become "very much less," that "mark-on [i.e. markup] is becoming more and more difficult to maintain." Some Canadian retailers have had to hire 50% more employes to take the place of experienced help drafted...
Office of the Mayor Montreal, Quebec...