Word: ottawa
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...years old. Besides controlling the government of Saskatchewan, it is the official opposition in three of the Dominion's nine provinces (British Columbia, Manitoba and Nova Scotia). It is Canada's No. 3 party and has 28 seats (out of 245) in the House of Commons at Ottawa. Its national leader, Major James Coldwell, 58, is one of the most admired men in the House; by many politicians of all parties, he is regarded as prime-ministerial timber...
...Others were recovered from the vat after WPTB inspectors had left. Workmen waded shoulder-deep into the pulpy mass, close to the whirling beater blades, fished beneath the bubbling surface for coupons which were then cleaned and sent on to the black market in Hull, across the river from Ottawa...
...Ottawa, Dr. C. J. Mackenzie, National Research Council director, told Trib Correspondent Stephen White that the $20,000,000, Government-owned pilot plant at Chalk River, Ont. was bee-busy making plutonium and its byproducts. He added that the amount was "not at all comparable" to the U.S. production at Hanford, Wash., where there are several larger plutonium piles...
...judges, of course, did not let beauty sway them. Ottawa's pretty, blue-eyed, 18-year-old Barbara Ann Scott could skate too. Last week at Davos Platz, Switzerland, against 19 competitors from seven nations, she did her graceful spirals and jumps and double loops, topping it off with a cruncher: the one-foot axel and double salchow...
...Ottawa's Metcalfe Street, the Socialists dedicated their new, $15,500, nine-room national headquarters, "Woodsworth House," named for James S. Woodsworth, who was the first president of the party. Then, to make sure that there was no mistaking the party's intention to be a permanent part of Canada's political landscape, CCF Leader M. J. Coldwell said: "I cannot say whether the Conservatives will be swallowed by reactionary Liberals, or vice versa. . . . [But] all talk of our party coalescing or collaborating with another party is utter nonsense...