Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike deadline neared, Ottawa nervously upped its ante to 12^, and removed the wage differential in Nova Scotia (5?an hour less). Labor came down to the equivalent of 15½. Under extended wartime powers, Hump Mitchell could fine anyone $20 a day who defied the seizure and refused to work, and jail and fine those interfering with the seizure order. But he also knew that arrests would not make steel...
...guests had a final request to make of their stepmother country. The Canadian Government must help them go to Russia. With shiny new ..Soviet passports in their pockets, they still had no idea how or when they were going, or who would pay their fares. The Soviet Embassy in Ottawa mumbled: "It is a complicated situation." The orchard builders were becoming impatient. "We want to go soon," spoke up Shpihun. "We don't want to wait too long...
...millers and bakers, and to Chester Davis' Famine Emergency Committee, which had done much to promote public conservation and aid.* Last week former President Herbert Hoover, who had done as much as any man to spur the U.S. conscience into action, made his final famine relief report in Ottawa (see CANADA). Not mentioned in the official reports was fiery, little Fiorella LaGuardia, head of UNRRA, who had cut through much Government red tape and indecision...
...years. The price would be $1.55 a bushel. This would ensure Britons cheap bread and Canadians a guaranteed market, although prairie farmers complained bitterly that they were losing millions of dollars. (U.S. farmers were getting $2.16 a bushel.) Nevertheless, Britain's Food Minister John Strachey flew out to Ottawa to sign on the dotted line...
...Ottawa's Chateau Laurier, the only living ex-President of the U.S. sat down to a butterless, breadless, sugarless, cream-less, potatoless, meatless dinner. (He ate cold salmon, vegetables, fruit.) Then he rose before a microphone to talk about food. At President Truman's request, Herbert Hoover had travelled 50,000 miles through 38 countries. Few men except the starving themselves knew so much about food-and famine...