Operation Leap boosts workers by advancing schooling in Leaside
In Leaside, 1962 founded Operation Leap mobilized local firms with federal and Ontario support to raise employees from grade nine to grade twelve. Ages 20 to 55 pursued matriculation on company time and personal effort, aiming for higher skills, earnings and promotion. The program, among North America's first, inspires imitators in Peterborough and Sault Ste. Marie.
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Leaside
Ontario
North America
Peterborough
Sault Ste. Marie
Canada
Love Eternal and Undying Returns in Big Town
Jan Pellew shelters Tim Ryder, Dave Cotter’s war weary friend, in her apartment in the Big Town. The meeting rekindles longing as Tim confronts Jan with a claim on her, while the locket and Dave’s memory test their vows. Jan reveals the locket hides another image, sparking tension about loyalty and possible second chances.
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Dave Cotter
Dave
Miss Pellew
Janice Pellew
Tim Ryder
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Jan
Montana
Suppe
Tim
Canada’s twenty years after WWII mark strong growth and prosperity
The Economic Council of Canada reports that two decades after World War II Canada doubled real output, raised output per head by 30 percent, per person employed by 50 percent, and per manhour by 70 percent. It credits competitive private enterprise for jobs, innovation, rising living standards, and social security expansion, contrasting with state-led economies.
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Canada
Economic Council of Canada
Certified Dangerous Driver Highways Proposed
A columnist proposes a radical plan separating slow and dangerous motorists. Only certified dangerous drivers would be allowed, with licenses stamped accordingly. Highways would have no speed limits or intersections and would be one way toward the oceans. Edmonton Journal.
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Pacific
Atlantic Ocean
Edmonton
Fowl Play and Loganberry Origins Noted in History
A humorous note from a military base hints at servicemen joking about poultry in a new food suggestions book. The loganberry traceable to Judge J. H. Logan of Santa Cruz, California in 1881 arose from a cross between a wild blackberry and red raspberry pollinated by an insect.
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J. H. Logan
Santa Cruz
California
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Minnedosa
Manitoba
Isabel Blair
Dalkeith
Dave Young
Canadian Council
Isobel
Brenda
Blair
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Department of Labour
AX Rheit
Sell Stow
Louis Arthur Cunninghaw
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