Word: winnipeg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortune angeling flying ventures. Aviation Bug Dickinson toyed with Northwest for a spell, lost so much money he turned it over to a group of Minneapolis-St. Paul-Chicago financiers. They did better: in 1927 Northwest had a prosperous Twin Cities-Chicago run, in 1928 spread to Winnipeg. Then Northwest picked up tough-minded, fast-moving Croil Hunter, a World War I artillery captain who went from traffic manager to president in five years...
...frozen all major route applications for the duration, would probably ice a merger too. But canny Hunter can afford to wait-when & if he gets Mid-Continent and the proposed routes he will have a vast air net stretching from Washington to Alaska and from New Orleans to Winnipeg...
Nice Try. In Winnipeg, a cigar-chewing young man demanded admission to the Army, smoked & smoked, grew greener & greener, finally admitted...
Paul Ausborn bought a farm in Saskatchewan. He tried to forget politics, but what he had learned in Germany haunted him. When Hitler came into power, Ausborn sold his farm, went to Winnipeg and devoted all his time to organizing an anti-Nazi movement among Canadians of German descent. For a while he was successful. Then the German Consulate organized a Bund in Winnipeg and financed a violent Nazi newspaper. Ausborn was beaten up by Bundist thugs. Once he made an effigial tombstone for Hitler, which was to be carried in a May Day parade. Police made him take...
Last week the war against Adolf Hitler had created such a manpower shortage in Canada that Paul Ausborn, who has devoted 20 of his 50 years to fighting Hitler, got a job as a seasonal laborer in a Winnipeg sugar-beet plant...