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...cheap kerosene, are easier to operate and maintain since the engines have fewer moving parts. At only 30% of capacity, say Vickers, the Viscount can cover operating costs. Vickers has also learned the trick of U.S.-type maintenance; it has already arranged for special parts depots in Winnipeg, Man. and Alexandria, Va. for maintenance of Trans-Canada's and Capital's new Viscounts...
...regular one-way fare of $574 saves the passenger $40; $970 round trip is $70 less.) Cruising at 300 m.p.h. at about 17,000 ft. altitude, SAS made only two stops on the 5,800-mile flight to take on gas. The plane let down at Winnipeg and at Greenland's Sondre Stromfjord, where the 6,000-ft. airstrip is known to its icebound U.S.A.F. maintenance crew and pilots as Bluie West 8, its wartime code name...
...found work in a factory, painted when he could. Last year Sather had a show in Winnipeg which netted $800. With that, he bundled his family into a 1938 Ford station wagon and rattled off to Mexico. They lived in a shack in the jungle near Acapulco, and Sather came down with malaria. "But I have an attack only once a month," he says. "I'm so healthy, I'm a dynamo. I need only four hours' sleep a night." On their way back to Canada, the Sathers visited U.S. museums by day, camped in the fields...
...Winnipeg last week, William John Eccles, a University of Manitoba history lecturer, said flatly that history has been giving Frontenac far more than his due. Eccles spent most of the past three years poring over musty records in the Ottawa archives and in Paris. Eccles' research, presented in a paper to the Canadian Historical Association, portrays Frontenac as a wastrel, a bungler and a timid commander whose 19-year governorship almost ruined the Quebec colony...
...time, said CEA, Cargill was short as much as 31.5 million bushels (24% of the 1951 crop), though regulations permit maximum contracts of only 3,000,000 bushels. At the same time, Cargill Grain Col, Ltd., a wholly owned Canadian subsidiary, was buying oats futures on the Winnipeg Grain Exchange and contracting to sell the oats to the parent company in the U.S. Cargill, charged CEA, falsified its books by listing these contracts as cash purchases in order to balance them off against the excessive short sales. The heavy short sales depressed the futures price of oats. When the time...