Word: winnipeg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faced with such persistence, British authorities in January shipped Escape Artist von Werra to Canada. Thinking he was bound for Winnipeg, he had already plotted a route from there to New Orleans by the time he landed in Halifax...
...financed a private company to manufacture Bren guns for Britain at over-lush profits. Two days later the Post led a press crusade for a Royal Commission investigation. The Government denounced the article as "scurrilous and irresponsible." But two and a half years later, with Canada at war, the Winnipeg Free Press broke the story that the old Bren gun contract had been canceled and relet on a management-fee basis. The Post loudly recalled that it had been right and the Government wrong. Thereafter it constituted itself No. 1 unofficial critic of Canada's fumbling war effort...
...life; for the second year in a row; outshining 2,547 rivals; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. With rosettes aplenty, five-year-old Brucie will show no more, "except where he never has been shown before." >Dimpled Mary Rose Thacker, 18, of Winnipeg: the biennial North American ladies' figure skating championship; for the second successive time; by a wide margin over Toronto's Eleanor O'Meara and Norah McCarthy, who placed second and third respectively; on the blue ice of blue-blooded Philadelphia's Skating Club and Humane Society. Only one American placed among...
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Austin scholarships, for the second half year, to Kenneth F. Fales, of Medford; and James A. Floyd, of Winnipeg, Canada...