Word: oshawa
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Russia was using tanks built in Montreal. Chinese soldiers fought with Toronto-made Bren guns. The British Army rolled on trucks from Oshawa, Ontario. U.S. pilots flew in Curtiss Helldivers from Fort William. The wheat from the great prairies, the salmon from British Columbia's deep blue inlets and cod from Nova Scotia's offshore fisheries fed Britain...
Bricklayer Stanley Jamrozy, 38, obdurately refused to work in the Apriority industry to which Canada's National Selective Service bosses assigned him. Instead he got a job on a tobacco farm. In Oshawa, Ont., he was fined $25 as a slacker...
Appealing largely to farmers, Onion-Farmer Hepburn made the C. I. O. his campaign issue, was photographed visiting the Dionne quintuplets and boasted that his action at Oshawa had saved the Province from the terrorizing of "foreign agitators." That was good enough for Ontario...
Chief personal satisfactions to the chub-cheeked Premier were three: the defeat of handsome, dapper Earl Rowe, new Conservative leader, the victory of Gordon Conant, Hepburnite, at Oshawa-scene of last April's C. I. O. strike against General Motors, squashed by "Mitch"-and a Liberal victory in northern Ontario, stronghold of the C. I. O. mining unions...
...that the aim of C. I. O. in their province is not only to organize General Motors but is also directed toward C. I. O.-izing Ontario's rich mines. It was in defense of these, they think, that "Mitch" tried to "git his fist in fust" at Oshawa. Finally, since Canada's Prime Minister Mackenzie King, fearing to antagonize Labor, has frowned upon the strident demands of "Mitch" that C. I. O. agents be excluded from Canada as "foreign agitators," Ontario's Premier smells an opportunity to attract to himself nationwide support and contributions from...