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Explosive situation
Explosive situation

Explosive situation

Date10/1/1979
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Original Toronto Star caption: Explosive situation: Police bomb squad officers Bill Miller (left) and Ed Peach gingerly carry a potentially explosive bottle of picric acid in a special container from R. H. King Collegiate to the police explosive-carrier truck. It was one of several picked up at six Metro secondary schools yesterday. They were detonated without incident.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0006335F
Potential bomb: Similar bottle of acid blew hole a foot deep in school football field
Potential bomb: Similar bottle of acid blew hole a foot deep in school football field
9/28/1979
Big Daddy urged, without mentioning his name, the re-election of Mayor Philip Givens next Monday to keep up Toronto's explosive rate of expansion and growth
Big Daddy urged, without mentioning his name, the re-election of Mayor Philip Givens next Monday to keep up Toronto's explosive rate of expansion and growth
11/30/1966
Protest fizzles: What was expected to be an explosive meeting of the Toronto Board of Education last night fizzled after Trustee George Martell, standing at the mike, told parent and teacher that his proposals for special education are intended to place slow learners - usually from poor or ethnic background - into regular, but smaller classes
Protest fizzles: What was expected to be an explosive meeting of the Toronto Board of Education last night fizzled after Trustee George Martell, standing at the mike, told parent and teacher that his proposals for special education are intended to place slow learners - usually from poor or ethnic background - into regular, but smaller classes
11/15/1979
Tense moments: An explosives-seeking robot opens a car door while below, police help a bomb disposal officer with his heavy suit
Tense moments: An explosives-seeking robot opens a car door while below, police help a bomb disposal officer with his heavy suit
3/18/1992
Size of explosive device
Size of explosive device
4/29/1979
Touchy job: Metro's police bomb squad went to the Bloor-Yonge subway station last night on a tip that an explosive parcel was hidden in a locker
Touchy job: Metro's police bomb squad went to the Bloor-Yonge subway station last night on a tip that an explosive parcel was hidden in a locker
12/21/1982
Charles Evans, president of Triple Crown Electronics, expects an explosive new demand for satellite receivers.
Charles Evans, president of Triple Crown Electronics, expects an explosive new demand for satellite receivers.
3/19/1981
Tense moment: Metro police officers search a suitcase outside a downtown apartment building last night after explosives were found in a fifth-floor apartment
Tense moment: Metro police officers search a suitcase outside a downtown apartment building last night after explosives were found in a fifth-floor apartment
7/29/1984
Bogged down - This huge modern tank is rendered temporarily helpless by a trap made by detonation of explosives buried inside a pipe underground. Trap(...)
Bogged down - This huge modern tank is rendered temporarily helpless by a trap made by detonation of explosives buried inside a pipe underground. Trap(...)
8/15/1941
Explosive and corrosive cargoes travel Metro's streets every day - but no one can say how dangerous they are
Explosive and corrosive cargoes travel Metro's streets every day - but no one can say how dangerous they are
1/7/1982
Nosing around: Neill Reid, Sciex marketing vice-president, shows off part of his company's Condor device, an electronic nose designed to uncover 64 types of drugs and explosives
Nosing around: Neill Reid, Sciex marketing vice-president, shows off part of his company's Condor device, an electronic nose designed to uncover 64 types of drugs and explosives
10/20/1987
Lisa Price. She's 19 years old and the explosive lead singer in a very promising rock 'n' roll band . . . Lisa Price was born in Montreal and spent mo(...)
Lisa Price. She's 19 years old and the explosive lead singer in a very promising rock 'n' roll band . . . Lisa Price was born in Montreal and spent mo(...)
5/7/1980