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When he resigned as U.S. vice-consul in Toronto last fall, Frank Tinker bade Canada an unfond farewell. "I'm leaving Canada and I'm glad," Tinker wrote in a blunt article in Maclean's magazine. "It's going to be a great relief...
...Tinker explained that he was fed up with the spiteful, unfair criticisms that he had encountered during his two-year hitch in Canada. Canadians were forever complaining to Vice-Consul Tinker about U.S. immigration laws, completely overlooking Canada's equally strict screening of aliens. Canadian newspapers railed about the 7% U.S. tariff on Canadian lead, but never mentioned the 25% Canadian duty on U.S. cars. Tinker once heard a Canadian M.P. solemnly talk to a dinner audience about "trigger-happy" U.S. diplomats...
...Model K Ford, a 1923 Kissel and a 1925 Alvis made each lap with ease. As far as the spectators were concerned, they were merely pace setters. The crowd was all with Tusek and his scorched, drum-nosed Steamer. Desperately, he got up at dawn each day to tinker with new fuel mixtures. Somehow he managed to keep up with the pack...
...rules: a cup of coffee will mean exactly seven ounces and will cost 10? a frankfurter must weigh at least one-ninth of a pound and be served with a choice of relish and mustard; authorized repair garages must provide "comfortable accommodations" for stranded drivers to wait while mechanics tinker with their cars...
...wharfside warehouse. The day's set, thrown up in a distant corner as if to dramatize the phoniness and gullibility of man, is bathed in a glare of blue-white light as blinding as that from an arc welder's torch. Half a hundred hairy union men tinker stolidly with furniture, electrical cables, fuse boxes and cranes, or peer down in boredom from steel bridgework overhead. Half a hundred tourists stand in the outer shadows, looking as if their shoes pinched. Everybody talks...