Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help publicize a new kind of super mink fur (marketed by the Quebec Fur Breeders Cooperative Association), Eleanor Roosevelt went to Manhattan last week and accepted an $8,000 mink coat. Two days later, at her regular White House press conference, the newshens were waiting...
Added to the Toronto-New York City flight were these new routes for Trans-Canada Air Lines: Halifax to Boston, Toronto to Cleveland, Toronto to Chicago, Port Arthur to Duluth, Victoria to Seattle, Whitehorse to Fairbanks. The new U.S. commercial routes: New York City (or Boston) to Quebec, New York City to Ottawa (or Montreal), Washington to Ottawa (or Montreal), Seattle to Whitehorse...
Critics hoped that the big national show, which will be seen in Ottawa and Quebec next, would give contemporary artists "a sense of tradition and . . . nurtured confidence." Plain citizens regarded the show with that native Canadian modesty that has in it a hint of the defensive. Reported Toronto's weekly Saturday Night: "It is not an exhibition of masterpieces that will cause you to gasp before every other canvas-Canada's contribution to world art has not yet been that distinguished, but it is a respectable collection . . . Canadians may take a certain pride...
Most of the troops had deserted by going on pre-embarkation leaves and not coming back. In Quebec, about 700 men of Le Régiment de Châteauguay, stationed at Sorel, vanished. Another 600 were missing from Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke at Joliette...
...Pacific was ahead of schedule, the war in Europe behind schedule because of one great mistake-the premature write-off of Germany. In September the Nazi armies had been driven, shredded and stumbling, out of Russia and France. Winston Churchill arrived in Quebec saying, "Victory is everywhere." In Washington the Combined Chiefs of Staff, assuming that the Germans would quit before November, earmarked heavy shipments of men, arms and supplies for the Pacific. The Leyte invasion was moved up two months...