Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rumor rustled through the narrow, cobblestoned streets of the historic city: plans were being made for housing the new League of Nations in Quebec...
Some of the penny stocks, like Quemont-whose mine in western Quebec has yielded high-assay ore-have genuine mines behind them. But the only claim of some is that they are located next door to something good, and many of the promoted properties do not even exist...
William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's clam-like, bachelor Prime Minister, was asked by Maxime Raymond, leader of Quebec's British-hating Bloc Populaire: how much did Canada have to pay for last September's six-day Quebec (Churchill-Roosevelt) Conference? The to-the-penny answer...
...fortnight, the Government's agriculture committee recommended legislation making it illegal for Canadian Japs, wherever born, to own or lease any land or business). Anti-Jap feeling was strong elsewhere, too. Alberta's Public Works Minister W. A. Fallow said that his Province wanted no postwar Japs. Quebec's Premier Maurice Duplessis said that he would take "necessary steps" to see that no Japs were relocated in his Province. Said Nova Scotia's Premier A. S. MacMillan: "We've got troubles enough...
Alcartra Gerben, 6, was primped to look her best. At Calgary, there was a super-banquet, with speeches in her honor. Some 500 folks attended, some from as far away as New York and Quebec. Alcartra took it all as a contented country maiden should. A sleek Holstein, she had yielded a barn-shaking 1,410 lbs. of butterfat, 27,800 lbs. of milk, in one year...