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Many a skipper set out. for Dunkirk with just "a series of courses penciled on the back of an envelope" and no notion of the holocaust that awaited him (personnel-ship Scotia passed a returning destroyer in mid-Channel, received from her merely the deadpan warning: "Windy off No. 6 buoy"). Tug Sun XI found herself ferrying to & fro for seven days, "like a sardine tin full up everywhere." Skipper Lightoller packed troops into his yacht Sundowner until, in his own expressive words, "I could feel her getting distinctly tender, so took no more...
...tiny fishing villages that snuggle in Nova Scotia's rocky coves, there is no fisherwoman quite like Mrs. Annie Lyons of Hadleyville on Chedabucto Bay. A wiry little (105 Ibs.) mother of seven, she sports a boyish bob, a man's clothes and does a man's work...
...sure that they could compete in it successfully, cast covetous eyes on a combined market of 156 million. Best examples: makers of fine papers, furniture, alloy metals. The Maritimes, where many believe that confederation was a mistake, have a friendlier feeling for the U.S. than for Ontario. Said Nova Scotia's Industry Minister Harold Connolly: "Complete economic unity between Canada and the U.S. is inevitable...
...mountain wood lots that ring Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, it was Christmas-tree harvest time. During the summer, lanky Bruce Swinamer, 43, had been out spotting likely trees for the trade. Last week, his boss, a New Yorker named Willis ("Christmas Tree") Clark, checked into the Cornwallis Inn at Kent-ille, got set for the cutting of 125,000 balsams for the city market...
Clark was only one of several American tree-buyers busy in Nova Scotia. This year the province expects to ship 2,000,000 trees to the U.S., up 100,000 over 1946. The trees will find their way into homes as far away as Miami and St. Louis...