Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Mikolajczyk, sporting a new mustache grown during his flight from Poland, was reunited with his family in the London suburb of Kenton. Of his own escape he would say little, except that he had worn an overcoat and shoes bought in Quebec during the war, horn-rimmed glasses and a squashy old hat-"to make me look American." His thoughts were more on his colleagues who, like him, had tried to squeeze through the Iron Curtain. Grim news reached his refuge; he alone had made good his escape. Czech police had nabbed seven of his followers. The Communist...
...watch a diamond drill bite into the cocoa-colored rock. At a depth of 49 ft. the drill hit high-grade ore containing about 53% metallic manganese. With 40,000 tons proven reserves, and 140,000 more probable, it looked like a good thing for the island, and Quebec Manganese Mines, Ltd. Every ton of hardened steel requires an average of 14 lbs. of manganese, and most reserves in the U.S. and Canada are low-grade and unprofitable...
...Soon, Quebec engineers hope to take out 160 tons of ore a day from Grindstone Island pits. It can be shipped cheaply to Baltimore for $2.50 a ton (it costs two or three times as much to ship ore from the great world sources in Brazil or India). The industrial revolution is bringing the Magdalens-once known mainly for their sea birds, especially gannets-out of the mists at last...
...Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia, tree dealers were busy in the woodlands. Last year, the Dominion sent 7,143,525 firs and Scotch pines across the border, valued at $1,839,000. This year, the take may exceed...
Montreal's McGill University Observatory found that the city had an average temperature of 57° over the first 24 days of October, three degrees above the record. Quebec hay-fever sufferers complained that the warm days had brought back their sniffles. Violets bloomed in Westmount. It was dry too-the fourth driest October on record. There had been only .85 inches of rain all month in Montreal...