Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around to finding a backer for seven years. Then the late Joseph Errington, a Toronto engineer, listened for five minutes, took a chance. For $2,400 he and Cross bought up a lot of old claims. They drilled under the M-shaped lake, ultimately found at least three big ore bodies. Finding the ore was one thing, getting it out was another...
Critics promptly suggested that the Government ask itself the same question. Snapped Toronto's Globe and Mail: "Are you [the Government] men or mice. . . . Have we the guts to admit that our policy was dictated by political cowardice? . . . It is not a pretty challenge. Yet, in the language of the Government, it is proper and just. It is a poor defense for cowardice to scream 'Coward...
...Attorney General John Wesley Corman, 56, is the Cabinet's oldest member, its strongest personality. When appointed, he was in his fifth term as mayor of Moose Jaw (pop: 20,500). Eastern bred and eastern educated (Toronto University), he is now as western as Moose Jaw. He firmly believes the rural west has had a raw deal from St. James Street (Canada's Wall Street...
...Toronto, National Selective Service Director Arthur MacNamara told Canadian manufacturers that the armed forces would need 98,000 men in the next eight months. War industries needed 134,117 more workers (as of June 2). To meet these conflicting needs, MacNamara forecast cancellation of many draft deferments, more compulsory job transfers from low-priority industries...
...NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST) Toronto...