Word: winnipeg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inkling of what the junketeers would see came from Winnipeg, where the U.S.Canadian Permanent Joint Board on Defense was holding one of its periodic meetings. Canadian Chairman Andrew G. L. McNaughton and U.S. Chairman Fiorello LaGuardia hopped up to Churchill on a tour of their own. They reported that there were 1,000 soldiers, civilians and their wives (including 130 Americans) at Churchill on the bleak western shore of Hudson Bay. Artillery, machine guns, snowmobiles and winter clothing are being tested there. So are a few planes - DC-35, Mosquitoes, and a Halifax. Jet-propelled planes? Said McNaughton:'"There...
...Winnipeg, Canada...
...sings highbrow and unhackneyed programs of almost equal density in Winnipeg, Saginaw and Manhattan, and finds that audiences like them equally well in all three places. Says she: "I thought Kalamazoo was a joke. Then all of a sudden, I get an engagement for Kalamazoo. I don't go down to them. I give them everything I have in myself. In Kalamazoo is a wonderful audience...
...Trouble. Their only hope was to get rye in Winnipeg. Rice & Co. and General Foods hastily tried to bottle up the Winnipeg rye market. But one of the shorts was wily Cargill Grain Co., an old hand at corners. Cargill hustled enough Winnipeg rye to Chicago to break the corner, and drive down the price of rye futures, which had risen from 64¼? a bu. to $1.32 5/8. Two years later, it rose to $2.86 but General Foods had sold out. Final loss to General Foods...
...reached Minnesota-after a boat trip calculated to make even a Viking tremble. Assumes Holand: the searchers would first search the Atlantic seaboard north of Vinland, then keep on going; hence their route ran up the Atlantic coast into Hudson Bay, down Hudson Bay to the Nelson River, Lake Winnipeg and the Red River into Minnesota's lake country. There, while looking for an overland route back to Vinland, the party was attacked by Indians. The Kensington runes purport to tell the story...