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Ready to roll: Alain Sutton, Toro's director of Canadian operations, shows the company's new snow blower, one of many products with which Toro intends to dazzle the Canadian market to the extent of some $35 million in sales per year
Ready to roll: Alain Sutton, Toro's director of Canadian operations, shows the company's new snow blower, one of many products with which Toro intends to dazzle the Canadian market to the extent of some $35 million in sales per year

Ready to roll: Alain Sutton, Toro's director of Canadian operations, shows the company's new snow blower, one of many products with which Toro intends to dazzle the Canadian market to the extent of some $35 million in sales per year

Date9/18/1979
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Brian Doe, 29-year-old Briton, heads the British Ever Ready Co.'s assault on the Canadian battery market - estimated at $40 million a year. Doe, backed by a hefty advertising budget, hopes to capture 25 percent of battery sales in this country within five years. Growth rate in demand is about 8 per cent annually.
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11/22/1974
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Gilles Gratton, making one of his patented brilliant stops, will likely be in nets for Toronto Toros in opener of WHA semi-final series at Gardens tonight
Gilles Gratton, making one of his patented brilliant stops, will likely be in nets for Toronto Toros in opener of WHA semi-final series at Gardens tonight
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