Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Steep Rock will ultimately mean to Canada, no one yet can say. Some Canadians have already talked optimistically of "a great metropolis in the bush of Atikokan, where great smelters will belch smoke. . . ." This much is sure: the Dominion, hitherto dependent on the U.S., now has a large iron ore supply of its own. This does not mean Canada will now supply fully the furnaces of its own young but lusty and growing steel industry. But it does mean that Canada will become, for the first time, an iron-ore exporter. And no longer will Canada have to import...
...Negro objected to a white man's smoking in the next seat. The smoke drifted back on the Negro's wife. The smoker put up an argument. So with a few well chosen blows of his fists the Negro killed him, and got off the car. The same night, four Negro women were arrested on another streetcar. One of the Negroes was reported to have struck a white soldier's wife and her 4-year...
Salvos of Mercy. The hillside took an awful going-over that day & night. There were many more wounded. U.S. shells also began to fall plunk in the battalion's lines. But the big 155-mm. projectiles did not explode. They were salvos of mercy: smoke shells stripped of powder, cotton-packed with sulfas, plasma, morphine...
Already tested, this stove is a box three feet high and two feet square, capable of heating a four-or five-room house (if the circulation of heat takes care of itself). Using new types of air jets and flues, it burns soft coal, eats its own smoke, runs three days without stoking. Twenty-seven stove manufacturers expect to market it before...
...Redoubtable Warrior." Arthur Coningham is over six feet tall, and built to scale. Sleek, urbane, convivial, popular, he does not smoke, drinks practically nothing (an occasional sherry, gin-&-bitters or small whiskey with meals). Win ston Churchill once referred to him as "no mere technician but a redoubtable warrior...