Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calmer reaction came from the Ottawa Journal: "If Mr. Kearns had taken the trouble to consult a few informed, responsible people, in Toronto, he would have avoided being 'shocked,' would have discovered that the Canadians who are crying havoc about U.S. investment are the sort of people who are always crying havoc about something and are not representative of Canadian opinion. Mr. Kearns then might have spared us his own excited talk...
...summer long, parents of the Pee-Wee League (ages 8-10) in Ottawa, Kans. had fidgeted in the stands as their kids walked up to the plate as if to the block, eyes atremble with tears, to face Harry Murphy ("Murphy the Great") and his submarine ball. Murph awes even his catcher, Lyle Adcock, 10. "We don't have any signals," admits Lyle. "All I do is hope he doesn't throw too hard and that I can catch it." Playing it safe, Lyle wears a pair of boots under his shin guards to absorb the force...
Canada's Bureau of Statistics last week reported employment at an alltime high, with 6,053,000 at work and unemployment running lower than Ottawa economists dared expect only a few months ago. The number of jobless Canadians dropped sharply last month to 234,000, which is 3.7% of the labor force, compared with 10% in March 1958. As the result of stronger demand for Canadian raw materials in the bullish U.S. recovery, Canadian exports to the U.S. surged to $321.1 million in June (v. $233.6 million in June 1958), and overall exports were up to a one-month...
...SAVILLE GARNER High Commissioner for the United Kingdom Ottawa...
Over the years the CBC has weathered intermittent squalls over charges of political influence and manfully faced up to the annual budgetary ordeal on Ottawa's Parliament Hill. Lately the network's luck ran out, and woes came thick and fast...