Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...themselves for a war on high prices. They went from door to door, getting signatures by the thousands on petitions to the government for more drastic controls. There was talk of a "prices train" which would start from the West, pick up delegates along the way, and roll into Ottawa with a mighty force of embattled consumers...
...Montreal, 125 protesters met in the dingy, third-floor hall of the Hotel & Restaurant Employees' Union. The chairman, Mrs. Ethel Leigh, told sadly of a delegation which had waited on Finance Minister Douglas Abbott in Ottawa. One delegate had said she had eight children, to which Abbott cracked: "You must do pretty well out of family allowances, eh?" The delegation was not amused. Said Mrs. Leigh: "We intend to increase pressure on the government until they realize that the people of Canada are serious in their protests. We mean business...
...Ottawa gave one more small sign last week that it could be moved. With cabbage selling (where it could be found) at an average of 15? a lb., Doug Abbott lifted the import ban, took steps to bring the price down...
...went carefully on. She never went home until she finished the required number of hours of practice, and when she did, it was often with chafed knees and dried tearstains on her cheeks. At eight, as the Spirit of the New Year in the Minto Follies, the Ottawa Journal called her "the darling of the show." At ten she became the youngest Canadian girl ever to win the gold medal,* and met Sonja Henie, who took Barbara out to tea and gave her an autographed picture of herself in a gold frame...
...Dedicated Girl. Sonja, ten times world's champion, was not very popular around Ottawa, after a visit in 1932 (as an amateur) when she demanded, but did not get, $2,000 expense money for herself, papa, mama, trainer, maid, dog and parrot. She was never Barbara Ann's ideal, but she represented her objective. At eleven, Barbara Ann took one big step toward that objective-by becoming junior champion of Canada. Two years later, in September 1941, Clyde Scott collapsed while watching a bridge game, and died. It almost broke his daughter's heart...