Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Upon the whole surface of the globe, there is no more spacious and splendid domain than Canada open to the activity and genius of free men. -Winston Churchill, Ottawa...
...bustle that surrounds some U.S. businessmen. He is deliberate in manner, though quick in judgment. There is little fat on his chunky (5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs.) frame. He has what New Englanders call a "down-East memory," and uses phonetic spelling, e.g., his lunch chit at Ottawa's Rideau Club once read: "plane omelet and rasin pie." He is an optimist, especially about Canada. Of his first view of Canada in 1908, he says: "I knew right away that I wanted to be a Canadian. I liked the people, the atmosphere, the possibilities of a thinly settled...
Defense officials in Ottawa were silent in the face of Pearkes's criticism. Privately they agreed with him and would gladly bring Canada's overseas forces up to Pearkes's specifications, if the necessary equipment were available for the changeover. But neither Britain nor the U.S. can yet supply tanks in the numbers needed. The same is true of planes; Canada plans to send eleven squadrons overseas, but has been able to deliver only three for lack of front-line aircraft. Until such shortages are licked, the government is committed to its infantry brigade, urgently requested...
...Ottawa's policy of minimum economic controls paid off encouragingly...
...Ottawa, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported that November's cost-of-living index was down one-tenth of a point to 191.1-the first drop since December 1949. Ottawa economists hoped that the inflationary spiral had been arrested, thus vindicating their program of strong credit controls and their dogged rejection of Tory and CCF demands for price ceilings...