Word: ont
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oliva Dionne, father of Canada's famed quintuplets, called an unwonted press conference last week in the $60,000 house that his daughters' income built at Corbeil, Ont. "The quints did not come home for Christmas," Papa Dionne announced sadly. "We didn't even receive a card from them. They didn't write; they didn't phone. We have realized for some months that they have been drifting away ... we decided it would be better if we didn't try to camouflage things any longer...
...almost every part of the country, there was tangible evidence of industrial and business activity to back up Howe's statistics. In the Quebec wilderness, 325 miles north of Montreal, Canadian National Railways is building a $35 million line to Chibougamau, a newly developed copper field. At Hamilton, Ont., the big Steel Co. of Canada, which has spent $100 million on new mills since 1950, reported with rueful pride that it was a full year behind on some orders -and promptly laid on an additional $70 million expansion program. Western oil production increased nearly one-third during the year...
Night Flight. In Walkerton, Ont., fined $40 and costs for careless driving, Andrew Frieburger, 72, told the magistrate that he ordinarily drove his car by celestial navigation, but lost his bearings and wound up in a ditch when he mistook a TV tower light for the evening star...
Character Witness. In Miami, five days after he fled from his job in a Hamilton, Ont. shoe store with the contents of the cash register, Robert Happy, 17, strolled into a specialty shop to buy a gun, blandly flashed his shoe-store identification card, was arrested as soon as the identification was checked with his former boss...
Night Flight. In Walkerton, Ont., fined $40 and costs for careless driving, Andrew Frieburger, 72, told the magistrate that he ordinarily drove his car by celestial navigation, but lost his bearings and wound up in a ditch when he mistook a TV tower light for the evening star...