Word: canada
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seventy-six debating teams representing 68 colleges from the United States and Canada will compete today in the last rounds of the sixth annual Harvard Invitational Forensic Tournament. The final and deciding contest is set for 5 p.m. in Emerson...
Other nominees include Richard B. Wigglesworth '12, Ambassador to Canada; Hermon Dunlap Smith '21, president of Marsh and McLennan, a Chicago insurance firm; J. Edward Lumbard '22, Circuit Court Judge; and Garrison Norton '23, president of the Institute for Defense Analyses...
...workers recently exposed to dust in the manufacture of calcium cyanamide*could not take a drink-it made them sick. Disulfiram proved a disappointment: it was too dangerous for widespread use, required a doctor's close supervision. But last week a medicinal variant of cyanamide was released in Canada for prescription sale, on the strength of researchers' reports that it is almost as potent as disulfiram and far safer...
Later, he got Eaton a position in a utility company. Eaton learned the business so fast that he was able to build a power plant in Canada a few years later. By mergers and purchases, he shortly controlled a utilities complex in which $2 billion was invested. By 1925 he was so rich that when he decided to refinance a small steelmaker called Trumbull Steel Co., he could say: "Gentlemen, if you have any doubt about my ability to underwrite the financing, just call the Cleveland Trust Co. and ask whether my check for $20 million will be honored." Five...
...began buying Aluminium shares. Although the company came out of World War II wjth 3.7% of world aluminum production, timid sales policies had cut its share to .9%. But it had a reputation for quality, plus substantial assets and a promising moneymaker in its new smelter at Baie Comeau, Canada. Last April, apparently afraid that Reynolds or some other aggressive U.S. concern would buy control, Aluminium's chairman, Viscount Portal of Hungerford. got stockholder approval to boost the firm's shares from 9,000,000 to 13,500,000, sell the extra shares for expansion capital. Portal decided...