Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would have to be optimistic almost to the point of complete naivete to believe that the need for United Nations intervention will diminish," Paul Martin, Canadian Secretary of State for Internal Affairs, told an audience of 250 at Agassiz Theater last night...
Mother Lode. Geologist McNair made his discovery last summer after sighting a distinctive rock ledge on remote Victoria Island in the Canadian arctic. Clearly visible on the surface of the Pre-Cambrian rock, which had somehow escaped the disturbances of mountain building and the pressures of overlying rock, were the fossilized tracks of burrowing, wormlike animals -an encouraging indication that more fossils might be near by. Says McNair: "I knew how gold prospectors felt when they stumbled across the mother lode." Splitting open the rock, he found the remains of 47 primitive, clamlike brachi-opods that radioisotope dating proved...
Winning Footholds. To keep up with its growing business, Household is adding another 70 offices to its present 1,4.17 offices in 48 states and all ten Canadian provinces. Parrying the invasion of consumer finance by appliance makers and hard-goods retailers, the company is also winning footholds in their fields. In the past four years it has bought up two retail subsidiaries that sell hardware, paint and kitchen equipment through 978 franchised and 72 company-owned stores. Last week Household moved into merchandising on a major scale. It arranged a stock-swap deal to acquire City Products Corp...
Rhone Poulenc has built a new chemical plant near Ottmarsheim, Peugeot a transmission works at He Napoleon, Hispano-Suiza a factory for aircraft components at Molsheim. Franco-Canadian Polymer is making synthetic rubber near the Strasbourg refineries; three other chemical companies have bought sites near by. All this activity has made Strasbourg, 250 miles from salt water, France's biggest port for exports. "Alsace," says Albert Auberger, president of the Strasbourg Port Authority, "is the center of a vast market of 170 million consumers-the keystone of the great arch connecting the North Sea and the Mediterranean...
Died. Austin Cottrell Taylor, 76, Canadian financier, father-in-law of Conservative Editor-Politician William...