Word: ont
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parade, which stopped traffic cold in the Loop for four hours and a half. Maybe 12,000 people marched-some counted 46 floats and close to a hundred bands-but not one too many of those luscious-legged drum majorettes from such towns as Magnolia, Ark. and Kitchener, Ont. Later in the week the wives had plenty of time to spend money in the department stores. In between the boisterous, briefest business sessions, the men got to a big league game at Wrigley Field (Chicago Cubs 8, Pittsburgh Pirates 7). The kids danced to a big band in the Aragon...
...them go, then three, and early this week five more. He fed and housed the others well, and drafted an apology to their "parents, wives and sweethearts." The kidnaped men were equally gallant. "A swell guy, that Raúl Castro," said Edward Cannon, a builder from Cornwall, Ont., as he stepped off a helicopter at the base upon being freed. "We had good food and plenty of it, and beds with clean sheets," chimed in Henry Salmonson of Portland...
WHILE a sharp summer thunderstorm crackled across the St. Lawrence Valley, crowds of raincoated tourists scrambled to the crest of a high dirt dike near Cornwall. Ont. one morning last week and peered through the mist toward a stubby earthen dam 2½miles away. At 7:55 a warning rocket arched overhead, and a voice on a loudspeaker began a countdown. An engineer in a timbered bunker pressed a button; from the explosive-mined dam a yellow curtain of debris belched upward toward the thunderheads. Deliberately, the blasted dam crumbled, and muddy water poured through, first in a thick...
...going ports. Chicago will be linked to Calcutta, Duluth to Antwerp, Toronto to Brisbane. Detroit's Chrysler Corp. will be able to ship a Plymouth sedan to Oslo for $45 less than the cost of the rail-ocean haul through New York. Wheat will move from Fort William, Ont. to Rotterdam at a saving...
Newly-elected members are: Mrs. Marian W. Chaffey, Carmel, Calif.; Nancy B. Curtis, New Haven, Conn.; Margaret Dalton, Cambridge; Deborah Duff, Washington, D.C.; Marion Dusser de Barrenne, Cambridge; Elaine I. Hoffman, Newton Centre; Mrs. Sylvia M. Hubbard, Toronto, Ont...