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Howe's fame as an elevator engineer spread through the grain country, and he decided to cash in on the demand for his services. In 1916, he set up his own engineering firm in Port Arthur, Ont., Canada's main Great Lakes grain terminal. Later in the same year, he married Alice Martha Worcester, a friend of his M.I.T. days and the daughter of J. R. Worcester, designer of the Boston subway...
...Avro Jetliner, and an all-weather jet fighter, the CF-100. In Quebec City, 140 acres of factories were converted to a privately owned industrial center. By 1948, practically all the government plants, except some unconvertible explosives factories and the $75 million Polymer synthetic rubber plant at Sarnia, Ont, had been sold. The explosives plants are useful now in the rearmament program; the Polymer plant has been earning a steady profit for the government since...
...elderly housewife with a large cancer in her gullet was wheeled into a basement room in the London, Ont. Victoria Hospital last week. A big lead-cased machine, like an upended cement mixer, was swung into position over her. There was a hissing of air ducts; a small window in the big machine opened for a few minutes, then snapped shut. The patient had received one of the first series of treatments by the first "Cobalt Bomb," medical science's newest weapon against cancer...
...cobalt bomb was developed by Canadian atomic scientists and is the strongest radioactive source ever used for a peacetime purpose in any country. Wafers of cobalt the size of a 25? piece were put in the Canadian atomic pile at Chalk River, Ont. and left there for two years to be bombarded with neutrons and made highly radioactive. Then 24 wafers of the radioactive product (Cobalt 60) became the charge for London's cobalt bomb; the others were sent to Saskatchewan for another cobalt bomb, which was in operation at Saskatoon last week. More cobalt is being "cooked...
MARGARET ALEXANDER Hamilton, Ont...