Word: howe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Drew had been whooping up his air immigration scheme. When the first goal of 7,000 British immigrants was reached last month, he announced that 8,000 more would be flown in by October. Last week he killed the project. His explanation: Trade and Commerce Minister C. D. Howe wanted to grab all Ontario's immigration traffic for the government's Trans-Canada Air Lines...
...been feuding ever since Howe notified Drew last month that T.C.A., previously too short of planes to do the job, now had enough equipment. As a result, said Howe, the arrangement with Transocean Air Lines, a U.S. firm which had brought over most of the immigrants under a T.C.A. subcontract, would end on April 15. That, said Howe, would help Canada conserve U.S. dollars. Furthermore, Transocean was using "substandard" equipment. (Transocean uses U.S.-made DC-4s; Trans-Canada uses Canada-made North Stars, i.e., modified DC-6s with British engines...
Last week, for the first time since 1943, such Geiger-counter hunting for uranium was opened to any prospector. In the House of Commons, Trade and Commerce Minister Clarence D. Howe announced the end of the ban on private uranium mining,*promised prospectors $2.75 a pound for ores with a minimum of 10% uranium oxide. Said Howe: the government is seeking "discovery of important deposits. At the moment we know of only one. We think there are others...
Died. Maude Howe Elliott, 93, last survivor of the four daughters of Julia Ward Howe (Battle Hymn of the Republic), civic leader and chronicler of Newport, R.I.; in Newport. Existing in a climate of literary and artistic success all her life, she gained recognition herself by writing the minor sagas of the people and places she knew well (My Cousin, F. Marion Crawford; This Was My Newport), won the 1917 Pulitzer Prize (with Sister Laura E. Richards) for Julia Ward Howe, a two-volume biography of her mother...
...Mark A. DeWolfe Howe, Idler's regular coach, will direct the Fry opus, which, successful in London, is having its American premier on the Agassiz Theater stage...