Word: ont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seaway tons a year by 1965, may well hit that total this year, helped by a surprising spurt in scrap-metal exports. Ports in Canada are also doing handsomely, partly because railways there are not slashing rates selectively to buck the Seaway as U.S. railroads are doing. Hamilton, Ont., now the busiest port on the lakes, increased its traffic by 600,000 tons last year. Montreal went up 300,000 tons, Toronto...
...SCHEUMANN Ottawa, Ont...
...window, handed out $100 bills to soldiers and chambermaids, $1,000 and $2,000 checks to bellhops and cabbies because "I like to see people happy," and was swamped with 27,000 marriage proposals (he ignored them all, was married twice, to other women); of a stroke; in Merrickville, Ont. A 6-ft., 200-lb. bear of a man whose tastes ran to torpedo-sized cigars, buffalo-skin coats and liquor, U.S.-born McLean began as a water boy for a railroad construction company, went on to gross $400 million by damming the Abitibi River, pushing railroads to remote Canadian...
...steel hands used to the authoritative roar of a huge blast furnace, the new plant that began operating this week at Niagara Falls, Ont., neither looked nor sounded like an iron smeltery. The plant, owned by New York's Strategic Materials Corp., is the first commercial operation of a new smelting process that could open a new era for the steel industry. It could also lead to the quick building of a steel industry in underdeveloped countries. The smeltery is designed to take low-grade ores, contaminated ores, and ores so fine that they would choke a blast furnace...
...Jeez, There's Nothing . . ." Roy Thomson is fond of saying: "We can expand indefinitely." Son of a Toronto barber, Thomson at 24 had managed to accumulate, and then blow, a small fortune in Saskatchewan land speculation. In 1929 he went to North Bay, Ont. to sell radios, Branched into broadcasting to push his product and in 1934, for $200 down and $200 a month, bought a moribund weekly called the Timmins Press. One of the unfledged publisher's first moves was to send dime to each of 100 small U.S. dailies, hen the copies came in, Thomson read...