Word: canada
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government. Bidding for a stronger mandate, after only nine months in office, is Tory Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker, 62. His leading challenger in the March 31 election: Liberal Leader Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, 60, longtime Secretary of State for External Affairs in a government that ruled Canada for 22 years up to last June...
...bill to authorize stockpile buying. The plan is for AEC to pile up 7,250 tons of concentrate a year, expand mill capacity from 17,500 tons to 24,750 tons by the end of 1959 In a few years when AEC's contracts to buy from Canada and Africa expire, AEC could feed the concentrate into atomic plants in place of the foreign concentrate that now supplies half of U.S. needs. By 1966 the stockpile would be eaten away. Cost of the plan...
Married. Gisele MacKenzie (real name: Marie Louise Marguerite Gisele La Fleche), 31, pert TV songstress (the "voice of Canada"); and Robert Shuttleworth, 44, onetime Canadian bandleader who gave Gisele her first singing job, has managed her career ever since; she for the first time, he for the second; in Las Vegas...
Mayor Tamaki argued that the proposed tariff will drastically slash Tsubame's exports to the U.S. and bring economic disaster to his city. (Canada, another Tsubame customer, may also raise its tariffs if the U.S. does.) But no one in Washington could give the delegation much encouragement that the tariff would not be raised. Said Tamaki: "I simply cannot believe that you Americans, if you knew the facts-and realized that the signing of this Tariff Commission recommendation would mean the ruin of 50,000 people who think, live and believe in the same principles you do-would allow...
...reputation as a top production man, became general manager of Standard's production in 1951, vice president in charge of production in 1954. Prior and Swearingen have worked together to realign and consolidate Standard subsidiaries, have pushed Standard back into foreign exploration for oil (South America, Canada, Mideast). Swearingen's promotion . puts him in line of succession to take over the top job within a few years...