Word: baird
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Musk-Ox had taught about defending Canada in the North, Lieut. Colonel Patrick Douglas Baird, expedition commander, saved for Ottawa's official ears. Lesser problems, as whether it is better in the North to sleep raw in a sleeping bag or to wear pajamas, were not settled at all: the men disagreed. The men of Musk-Ox did agree that: 1) biggest problem is maintenance of fuel supplies for snowmobiles, which carry 40 gallons, eat it up at a two-miles-a-gallon clip; 2) Canada's Eskimos* "are the friendliest, most honest people I ever...
...below zero when the men-41 specially trained Canadians, one British and five American observers-clambered up the shining aluminum sides of their 4½-ton vehicles and dropped through topside hatches into 6 ft.-by-5 ft. cabins. Young (33), British-born Lieut. Colonel Patrick Douglas Baird, 6 ft. 7 in. from the peak of his blue parka to the soles of his mukluk boots, stood waist-high and erect in the hatch of the No. 1 "snow" as it moved ponderously out of line, swung left, headed down the street. The other vehicles, each tugging two supply-laden...
...They rumbled on, down the sloping banks of the frozen Churchill River and across. Finally they disappeared into the treeless Arctic wastes to the north. For a long time the thudding of their 120 h.p. engines came back across the ice. Five hours later a radio message from Commander Baird reported that the "snows" were 36 miles out. In the 80 or more days they would be gone, they would be supplied by four Dakota Transports (C-47s) and seven sturdy, single-engined Noorduyn Norsemen...
...David Baird, New York insurance man, and Maxwell M. Bilofsky, Newark manufacturer, member of the National Republican Club of New York, who owns a $30,000 aluminum Rolls Royce. Baird invested some $70,000, got some $30,000 back. Bilofsky (through his good friend Baird) invested some $50,000, recovered...
...loans, Mr. Baird said bravely, were "private and personal investments entered into for profit because [they] carried for the lenders an option to purchase stock in the network. . . . The gains could have been substantial." Baird and Bilofsky were luckier than Groceryman Hartford, who lent Elliott $200,000, got back...