Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hasn't been in the pool since before going to Quebec. He had the sniffles for two or three days and since then has been in & out of town and terribly busy. But he's going to start in the pool again now. It's good for him. He is a powerful swimmer and that gives him a good workout. . . . The buoyancy of the water enables him to walk and he gets exercise there that he can't get any other...
...long-withheld story of an engineering triumph that made the invasion victories possible. Early in 1943, at Quebec, the Allied chiefs of staff had decided upon the plan: breakwaters, man-made harbors, pierings for two ports as big as Dover, to be set up on the Normandy beaches. Winston Churchill had given one order: "Let me have the best solution. Don't argue the matter. The difficulties will argue themselves...
Archduke Otto of Austria, at last report a glossy, uninvited onlooker at the Quebec Conference (TIME, Oct. 3), was the center of a wild rumor spread by peace-hungry Austrians in the hope of early deliverance from Nazi hands. The story: 31-year-old Pretender Otto had married 18-year-old Svetlana Stalin, only daughter of The Kremlin...
...Premier Drew's most vulnerable spot: his campaign against Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's brand-new, popular "baby bonuses" (TIME, July 3). Drew had trumpeted that the bonus was an invasion of Ontario's rights, proclaimed that Ontario was being taxed to appease French Quebec. Cried Hepburn: ". . . an incitement to hatred against a neighboring province, but, worse than that ... an incitement to hatred against one-third of our own Ontario population" (the French Canadians...
...London Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee described the Moscow meeting as a sequel to the meeting at Quebec between President Roosevelt and Churchill. He added that the meeting had "the fullest approval of the U.S. Government." Only one American, Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, would represent...