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...domain is 17,000 miles of railway through the most populous areas of Canada, and some 4,000 miles of branch lines into the northern U.S. Midwest. C.P.R. telegraphs, grain elevators, stockyards and abattoirs border the tracks. At principal stops are C.P.R.'s 15 hotels, including Quebec's famed Chateau Frontenac and the tourist meccas at Banff and Lake Louise. The company operates a fleet of ocean-going liners and freighters, as well as Canadian Pacific Air Lines, with routes to Asia, Australia, Latin America and Europe. C.P.R. also controls Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co., the world...
WACs went around the world, did almost everything. There were WAC telephone operators at the Quebec Conference. WACs camped in Normandy apple orchards. WACs in the Southwest Pacific made a green and gold company flag from parachute lining dyed with atabrine and green ink. The WACs who landed in New Guinea furnish a fairly typical case history. Arriving at Port Moresby, they drove to their campsite through lines of fuzzy-haired natives and whistling G.I.s. They found the camp in a state of complete unreadiness, but were saved by a "friendly men's unit" that gave them drinking water...
...future of Germany was central to every proposal affecting any part of postwar Europe, yet Roosevelt was not prepared for serious discussion of a German peace. At the Quebec Conference of September 1944 he had fallen for the Morgenthau plan for a "pastoralized" Germany. At Yalta he abandoned pastoralization in favor of dismembering Germany into "five or seven parts." But he had told Secretary of State Cordell Hull a few months before that no plans for Germany should be made until "we get into Germany-and we are not there...
...rocking chair, long a symbol of comfort and repose in every habitant farmhouse, was transformed into a device of frenzy and fatigue in Quebec last week. A wave of rocking-chair contests called bercethons (from the French bercer-to rock) swept the province. Quebec was suffering a virulent recurrence of the marathon mania of the '305, with rockerthons, pianothbns, poolothons and countless other forms of zany endurance tests under way in almost every village and town...
...when the mania exhausted his patience, Quebec's Premier Alexandre Taschereau ordered provincial police to raid the halls where marathons were being held. So far there has been no hint of another crackdown. A few Catholic priests have preached about irreligious berceurs who stick to their rockers and miss Sunday Mass. But Premier Maurice Duplessis, who was at home last week coddling a cold, was reportedly planning no action. "What could Mr. Duplessis say?" asked Solicitor General Antoine Rivard. "He's rocking himself at the moment...