Word: ottawas
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...haggisless St. Andrew's Day had faced Scots in Canada once before-in 1943. Then, they had flooded Ottawa with skirls of protest. This time the forewarned Board ruled: ". . . it was felt that an exception could be made for haggis, because as many Scotsmen contend it is a hardship to eat it as maintain it is a hardship to go without...
...good many Canadians, the renewal of meat rationing was just so much gristle. Across the Dominion, butchers stomped into mass meetings, bellowed to Ottawa that meat was spoiling on their shelves...
...about that gum, Britain's Lord Keynes was in Washington, after talks in Ottawa on Britain's immediate credit position, which is so tight that her businessmen cannot properly get going on reconversion. His Washington mission dealt with a tougher, longer-range problem...
...precisely 3 p.m., on Ottawa's Parliament Hill, a sleek maroon phaeton rolled up the curving drive. Several thousand sweltering spectators patted their hands in gentle applause. The car stopped at the great center doorway of the Parliament Building and out stepped Alexander Frederick Augustus William Alfred George Cambridge, first Earl of Athlone, and his wife, the Princess Alice. Athlone. for five years the representative in Canada of his nephew George VI, was on his way to perform for the last time the most impressive of a Canadian Governor General's functions-the formal opening of a session...
...Government's plans are adaptable, said the Prime Minister. "We hope we're only beginning something that will go on for years." For the expanding capital of a growing country, he added: "What is needed is large vision for development of Ottawa along lines similar to Washington...