Word: winnipeg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reported and denied: That Cord is negotiating for purchase of Northwest Airways, a potent airmail system which flies from Chicago as far northwest as Duluth, Bismarck, N. Dak.. Winnipeg. Avco already owns 22½% of Northwest stock. A like amount is said to be owned by Transcontinental & Western Air, the remaining 55% by Minneapolis bankers...
...Caucusing in Ottawa last week, founder-members of the Co-operative Commonwealth Party cheered their leader, Canadian M. P. James Shaver Woodsworth of Winnipeg, when he loudly proclaimed: "Our objective is a bloodless Canadian revolution to establish a new social order without capitalistic profits...
Enthusiastic, Canada's only woman M. P., Agnes MacPhail, promised to do everything she can to lead her Ontario United Farmers' organization into Winnipeg's Woodsworth's "Bloodless Revolution...
...should not outlaw Communism in Germany. We can deal with those people better when they are openly organized." In Winnipeg, Canada, buxom Mrs. H. von Schleicher delights to talk about "my brother-in-law" the new Chancellor. "He is very funny and very witty, with a charming personality!" she bubbled recently. "But he believes in biding his time. He wants to see what others will do first. Kurt has always been like that...
...took off from the North Sea Island of Sylt, site of Capt. von Gronau's seaplane school, traversed without incident the northern passage via Iceland and Greenland to Montreal. Thenceforth she made her easy way across part of the U. S., pausing at Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee. North of Winnipeg the Whale rested on Cormorant Lake while her crew-rested, fished. Thence on to British Columbia, Dutch Harbor, Alaska, and along the stepping stones of the Aleutian Islands and Kuriles to Tokyo...