Word: novas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee room of the huge, grey stone House of Commons in Ottawa last week the nine Provincial Premiers of Canada met with Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and his Cabinet to confer on the Rowell-Sirois Report. The Premiers of Canada's five poor provinces (Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island) were generally in favor of it. Premier Joseph Adelard Godbout of French-speaking Quebec was not ready to commit himself, but would talk. Three Premiers were flatly opposed: Ontario's florid Mitchell Hepburn, Alberta's vast shiny William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, British...
...putting on his crown, he intoned: "My Lords, pray be seated." The simplicity was no mere affectation of wartime. It was symptomatic of the most crucial week Britain has experienced yet, with the Luftwaffe smashing harder than ever at the islands, with the Empire fully and desperately engaged from Nova Scotia to the Nile. Indeed, Britain's plight was so grave that while in the U. S. dozens of agents and agencies worked for more & more aid to Britain, in London censors forbade correspondents to report just how terribly necessary that...
...rusty pistol. So littered with gold diggers' picks & shovels is Cocos Island that it looks "like an abandoned WPA project." A frequent visitor: Franklin Roosevelt. At Cocos the President fishes, yarns gleefully about such plunder as he himself once dug for at another famous trove on Oak Island, Nova Scotia. Other items in Wilkins' index of rainbow ends...
...long, hill-fringed inlet of Halifax, Nova Scotia, enough Canadian crews for six destroyers and enough crack Royal Navy men for ten, about 2,000 good sailors who could lay a hand on a new gear and feel its system right off, waited last week - as Winston Churchill explained later - by "the long arm of coincidence." Three days after the destroyer-base deal was announced, eight of the old U. S. destroyers, looking like absurd little floating factories with their flat decks and four tall funnels, steamed up the harbor. They dropped their anchors, but only long enough for British...
...lowland country which widens out into the fertile Richelieu Valley and south toward Lake Champlain. Farther upstrean lies Montreal, Canada's metropolis and No. i seaport. To launch a land thrust to the south an invader would have to hold the Montreal-Quebec line as well as Nova Scotia and Newfoundland to protect his supply line...