Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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C.P.R. is much more than a railway; it operates on land, sea and in the air. Last year was the best in its history. Wall Street and Toronto brokers estimate that 1943 net will be better than the $2.63 a share earned, but not paid to shareholders, in 1942. The 12,000-mile Canadian Pacific Air Line, which blankets most of the Dominion with vital north-south routes, but is barred from the lucrative transcontinental service by the Government-owned Trans-Canada Air Lines, carried 71,000 passengers and 11.5 million Ib. of mail and cargo. Earnings from C.P.-owned...
...deliberately set fire to the White House, the Capitol and other Government buildings." But they either ignore, or footnote, a fact which is always emphasized in Canadian versions of the same event: the "vandalism" was really "revenge." U.S. troops a year earlier had just as wantonly burned York (now Toronto), capital of what was then Upper Canada...
...Unanswered, too, was the charge that McNaughton had rebelled at the Canadian Government's right-about-face in military policy. As a result of this turnaround, Canadian troops now fight in dispersed corps rather than as a single all-Canadian army, as McNaughton planned it. To this charge, Toronto's bitterly anti-King Globe & Mail added another: The Government, having committed itself to the McNaugh ton policy, had to abandon it because of failure to procure the manpower to main tain and reinforce a full Canadian army...
Gustav Holst: The Planets (Toronto Symphony, Sir Ernest Macmillan conducting; Victor; 8 sides). One of the best 20th-century English orchestral works, abbreviated (Planets Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are missing). Performance: good. Recording: excellent...
...were dead in Ottawa, three in Toronto, three in Halifax, one in Vancouver, from drinking industrial alcohol, shaving lotions, hair tonics, paint removers...