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...Winnipeg last week conducted an aviation meet and aircraft exhibition. It was the biggest, most important air event of Canada's year, surpassing in extent and influence Montreal's exhibition, earlier in May. More than 70 planes showed at Winnipeg. Many competed in races and stunts. They carried hundreds of passengers. Makes included: de Havilland Moth, Avro Avian, Huff Daland, Lockheed Vega, American Eagle, Fokker, Junkers, Cessna, Fairchild, Ford, Waco, Hamilton, Douglas, Laird, Ryan, Travel Air, Monocoupe, Curtiss Robin...
Instigator of the Winnipeg meet & show was the Winnipeg Flying Club. It is one of 16 local Canadian clubs, whose members have flown approximately 10,000 hours since 1927, when the Canadian Department of National Defence first started to foster them. The Government gives planes, engines and cash to clubs which provide their own flying fields, hire an instructor and air engineer, and have at least 30 members prepared to qualify as pilots (not less than ten must already be qualified). For every member who qualifies, the flying club gets $100 more. And if the club later buys planes...
...their sex motifs. Also suggested: prohibiting or curtailing sale of sensational U. S. newspapers and magazines in Can ada, abolition of-U. S.-made comic strips, substitution of Canadian. † The Canadian National Council of Education is only ten years old. It was born in the Rotary Club of Winnipeg. Its father was Winnipeg. Manufacturer W. J. Belman; its godfather, Vincent Massey, now Canadian Minister to the U. S. (see page...
...Winnipeg, Fritz Kreisler cut his finger shaving. Some 3,000 waited in vain for his concert, while his fiddles lay still. Danger of blood-poisoning passed...
...city of Winnipeg, in the province of Manitoba last week a tall, ascetic-looking man wandered, but not aimlessly about the city. Here and there he let it be known that Winnipeg suited him. A good town for a breakfast-food factory. No remittance-man he; his accent was not that of an Englishman, but of a U. S. Southerner. His appearance was not that of an Englishman come to make good in the Dominion, but of a U. S. business man, albeit he was less jovial, perhaps a little harder than most U. S. citizens. As suddenly as they...