Word: canada
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both the Kaiser and Adolf Hitler; his sister killed herself after helping her husband escape from a Nazi concentration camp. Young Fuchs was a brilliant theoretical physicist, won doctorates at both Bristol and Edinburgh. When World War II broke out, 31-year-old Fuchs, after first being interned in Canada, became a naturalized British subject and was soon recruited for Britain's secret atomic research program...
...from Lines by John Masefield on the Occasion of Her Majesty's Visit to Canada...
...opens up a pathway to the sea," Masefield went on, and that was the meaning of the occasion when the Queen of Canada extended a welcoming hand...
...alone is a monumental problem. In the Eastern dialect, Inuktitut's circulation is limited to some 2,000 families, so widely strewn that the magazine must eventually be carried, over months, by Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Hudson's Bay traders, and dog sled; to reach Eskimos in Canada's Western north, Inuktitut will print a separate edition in the Roman characters familiar to that region. The magazine must go out in spring before the Arctic thaw, in summer after the river ice has melted, in fall before the freeze, and in winter before the curtain...
Texaco gets a company rich in reserves to protect itself against trouble in the Middle East. Though it has large holdings in Louisiana and Canada, 40% of Texaco's oil comes from a 30% interest in Saudi Arabia's Arabian American Oil Co., a 7% interest in the Iranian consortium, and a 50% interest in Caltex operations in Sumatra and elsewhere. To back them up, Texaco bought Trinidad Oil Co. Ltd. in 1956, last year added Seaboard Oil Co. Now with Superior, it gets big production in Venezuela's rich Maracaibo field, crude-oil reserves of well...