Word: winnipeg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were 17,000 punters at Winnipeg's Polo Park one afternoon last week. But when the bugle called six of Canada's classiest three-year-olds to the post for the 13th running of the Canadian Derby, there was nobody at the pari-mutuel windows. Reason: touted Ten to Ace, shipped west from Toronto, was so overwhelmingly favored that track officials had declared the race a "no-betting" affair...
Died. The Most Rev. Samuel Pritchard Matheson, 89, longtime Primate of the Church of England in Canada (1909-31), retired Archbishop of Rupert's Land; in Winnipeg...
...long journey from Darwin to Melbourne is about as far as from Winnipeg to Miami. Aside from his air-sick family, General MacArthur had a good reason for making it by train and highway; this route from Australia's desolate northern deserts to the populous south was the most important, the most difficult military and supply route in his new command area...
...prairies, the Winnipeg Free Press roared that "brass hats" who considered an Alaska invasion an impossibility "ought to have their heads examined." In Toronto, Alex Walker, president of the Canadian Legion, which has been leading recent demands for all-out aid to Britain, began to speak of "grave, personal danger [which] confronts every man, woman and child in all our provinces bordering on the two oceans...
...British warship seized the French tanker Sheherezade-bound from Houston, Texas, to Morocco-off the West African coast; and a Dutch ally intercepted the 8,379-ton French merchant ship Winnipeg-carrying a mixed cargo out of North Africa-off the island of Martinique. There were 210 Germans aboard the Winnipeg...