Word: canada
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canada's spring recovery has surpassed the brightest forecasts of the experts. In the best pickup since recession's onset, unemployment declined from 516,000 in April to 366,000 in May, when only 6.1% of the working force was jobless...
Governments often live to a ripe old age in Canada, but none in the nation's history had lived as long as the Liberal regime in the central prairie province of Manitoba. Last week, after 43 years, the regime at last lost a provincial election-just one year after the fall of the national Liberal government that had ruled for 22 years...
...reasons were much the same: a resurgent Tory Party capitalizing on the cry of time for a change. The victory carried on the political upheaval touched off across Canada by the magnetic, evangelistic personality of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, the Tory national leader. The returns in Manitoba gave the Tories 26 seats, the Liberals 19, the socialist CCF II. Though the CCF thus got the balance of power, the premier will probably be Tory Dufferin Roblin, 41, the spellbinding bachelor politician who energetically masterminded his party's victory. Across the land the long-dominant Liberals were left with control...
...Robert C. Kirkwood, 53, executive vice president since 1955 of F. W. Woolworth Co., largest U.S. variety-store chain (2,121 stores in the U.S., Canada and Cuba), was named president, succeeding James T. Leftwich, 69, who remains as chairman. Bob Kirkwood had decided on a career in pharmacy after high school, was lured away from a drugstore in his home town of Provo, Utah, by the glowing picture of dime-store opportunity painted by a local Woolworth manager. He started as a window trimmer, became a store manager in Denver at 20, soon proved to have the proper mixture...
Chocolate-Flavored Cereal. A chocolate-flavored, sweetened corn cereal, Cocoa Puffs, which is made by General Mills and has become the company's second biggest seller in Canada, is now being distributed to wholesalers and stores in the U.S. Price: about 27? for an 8½-oz. package...