Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NORTHEAST AIRLINES will try to gain altitude with a major re-equipment program. For $15 million, it will buy nine British Vickers Viscount turboprops, expects to put them into service between New York, Washington, Boston, Montreal next month...
...steam directly from the ocean lanes into the ports of Toronto, Cleveland and Chicago in what trade promoters like to call the Eighth Sea, the Fourth Coast, the North American Mediterranean. The main payloads on the old 14-ft. canals - iron ore upstream from Labrador and wheat downstream to Montreal-will fill the holds of probably nine-tenths of the ships on the new canal. Seaway planners forecast a traffic load of 25 million tons on the new seaway next season-just double the old seaway's 13 million tons of 1957-and 50 million tons a year...
...Montreal, Quebec...
...deepwater channels when they open next year. Hearings on the toll rates will open in Ottawa and Washington in August; if both the U.S. and Canadian governments approve the rates as recommended, it will usually cost shipowners less in tolls to move their vessels the 369 miles from Montreal to Lake Erie than to go through the Panama or Suez Canals...
Died. Lionel Sebastian Berk Shapiro, 50, Canadian novelist, longtime foreign correspondent; of cancer; in Montreal. A top moneymaker among Canadian authors, Shapiro seined his best haul in 1955 when the Book-of-the-Month Club picked up The Sixth of June, the story of a love affair and its relationship to the invasion of Normandy, which also won the Governor General's award for fiction, became a Hollywood movie...