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...unionized workers were on strike, but the damage that their strikes were doing to Canada's war effort was out of proportion to their number. Some 4,500 had walked out of the General Motors-owned parts plant of McKinnon Industries, Ltd. in St. Catharines, Ont., crippling Canada's automotive production. Some 700 were coal miners in Nova Scotia, who since April have been on a slowdown strike, cutting their production in half, causing a shortage of coal for the railways carrying war goods to Halifax and difficulty in bunkering ships for England...
...London, Ont...
...Niagara Falls, Ont., rejuvenated Russian Rejuvenator Dr. Serge Voronovr, 74, and wife Gertrude, 28, entered the U.S. for permanent residence; in Santa Barbara, high-domed, German-born Biographer Emil Ludwig (Napoleon, Roosevelt), 60, and wife re-entered from Mexico under German and South African quotas, looked forward to U.S. citizenship. Meantime, in Chattanooga, Tenn., the World's Christian Fundamentals Association plumped for the revocation of the citizenship of Albert Einstein, 62, on the ground that he is an atheist, and in Manhattan, Lady Mendl (Decorator Elsie de Wolfe), 84, awaited Congressional action on a bill that would restore...
...Toronto, Ont...
Other Dorothy activities have included rummage sales, all-Dorothy musicales, Simonizing cars, auctioning books. In Vancouver, Dorothies auctioned for $151 one of Dorothy Lamour's inexhaustible supply of sarongs, hoped to get an autographed article from Dorothy Thompson. In Almonte, Ont. a man trying on a new pair of shoes had his old shoes snatched and auctioned by ebullient Dorothies...