Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going to cost Canadians more not only to eat, but to dress and to build. Ottawa stores predicted that rising leather prices would raise the price of shoes $2 to $4 a pair. A similar prediction in Winnipeg set off a buying spree. In some Vancouver yards, lumber went up $5 to $8 per thousand feet, to complicate the problem of new housing...
Canadians didn't like it. In Ottawa, a woman paraded on Sparks Street with a sign reading: BREADKNIVES STAB HOUSEWIVES. In Toronto other housewives wired Prime Minister King that decontrol of flour was "an unforgivable crime against the people." An Ottawa councilman cried: "We are losing the peace. ... It is such things as this that give rise to Communism." Labor organizations warned that higher prices would inevitably mean higher wages. Sean Edwin, a Montreal Gazette columnist, cracked: "If the ... trend continues, dollars to doughnuts will be even money...
After the ceremonies were over, Mackenzie King returned to Ottawa. "I've enjoyed every minute of it," he said. "I felt 10-20-30-40 years younger...
Nobody had a full explanation for western Canada's worst train wreck.* A preliminary report, from Ottawa's Transport Board, said that No. 4 had the right of way, that the Minaki Special had come into Dugald too fast. But no one explained why Canadian railroads are still using old gaslit, wooden hand-me-downs...
...Ottawa Journal: "In a Pan American Union, Canada would almost inevitably side with the United States. Doing so, we should incite South American suspicion; have the Latin Republics believe that we were part of a North American bloc . . . subservient to a 'big stick' from Washington. Better . . . [to] be regarded as neutral, or, better still, as a friend...