Word: canada
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian American Co., chartered in 1799 by Russia's Emperor Paul. Ordered to promote discovery, commerce and agriculture and to propagate Christianity, Baranof virtually ruled Alaska for 20-odd years. Through his trading company, which was to Alaska what Hudson's Bay Co. was to Canada, Baranof ably enhanced Russia's claim to the territory by organizing the country, setting up trade relations with England, the U.S. and Spain, and turning Sitka itself into a glittering, sophisticated Russian colony...
Colonel Flint had intended to return to Canada shortly and write a book about his two years of truce-keeping in Palestine. He had already chosen the title: Blessed Are the Peacemakers...
...attracted students from all over the U.S. and the world. The present student body of 669-more than doubled since the prewar peak-numbers 33 seminarians from the Far East, two from the Middle East, 25 from Europe, five from Africa, seven from Australia and New Zealand, 23 from Canada and five from the Caribbean area...
Gold-mining shares were eagerly bought on the world's stock exchanges last week. In London, trading was the heaviest in 3½ years, and prices climbed to the highest in nine months. Canada had a flurry in low-priced gold shares. In Wall Street, where gold shares have steadily climbed in the past year, Investment Bankers Dillon, Read let out that they are forming an investment trust ($30 million to start) to buy South African gold shares, thus adding another fillip to the London buying...
Actually, the U.S. Government has no thought of boosting the price. Reason: it would probably do more harm than good abroad. Canada, South Africa and Russia, which has a huge stockpile, would be helped. But for dozens of other nations, which owe the U.S. money, it would only mean further depletion of their already skimpy foreign reserves...