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At the controls: Capt. Leah Mosher, above, qualified earlier this year as an aircraft commander with the 436 Squadron. The women are neither stronger,(...)
At the controls: Capt. Leah Mosher, above, qualified earlier this year as an aircraft commander with the 436 Squadron. The women are neither stronger,(...)

At the controls: Capt. Leah Mosher, above, qualified earlier this year as an aircraft commander with the 436 Squadron. The women are neither stronger,(...)

Date8/11/1981
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Original Toronto Star caption: At the controls: Capt. Leah Mosher; above; qualified earlier this year as an aircraft commander with the 436 Squadron. The women are neither stronger; nor weaker in professional competence; says a Brigadier-General.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0003483F
Up and away: Capt. Leah Mosher sits at the controls of a flight simulator. Now she'll get the chance at the real thing as one of the first woman pilot trainees in the Canadian Forces
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Report of Lieut. Neil M. Howison, United States Navy, to the Commander of the Pacific Squadron, being the result of an examination in the year 1846 of(...)
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At the controls: Capt. Steve Heimburger sits in the cockpit of a luxurious A-310 Airbus that comes complete with two beds, a shower and kitchen space
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Former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and Leonard Cheshire, a wartime commander of the Royal Air Force 617 (Dambusters) Squadron, examine World War I(...)
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A switchboard that controls the locks in each cottage at the Vanier Centre for Women. Milton, Ontario
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Mel Watkins. Controls usually mean wage controls more than price controls because wages are easier to control
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Big money, The Toronto Dominion Bank wants 436 million dollars to give up its lease on this branch
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Wartime director of R.C.N. medical research, Surgeon-Capt. C. H. Best yesterday was decorated with a high Belgian award, Commander of the Order of the(...)
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The skeleton of the new ground control tower rises above the aircraft parking apron, right
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