Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Lamont, on the night before the Texas Gulf board meeting, a Canadian weekly, The Northern Miner, front-paged the story of the ore strike-under a headline TEXAS GULF COMES UP WITH A "MAJOR." Copies of the paper had arrived in Manhattan and Toronto brokerage houses well before his phone call'. At 9:40 a.m. on the day of the meeting, Ontario Mines Minister G: C. Wardrope summoned Toronto reporters and confirmed the find. By 10:20, reporters at a Texas Gulf press conference in New York were phoning in their stories of the find...
...Offer. The Favreau incident has been festering since last summer when Montreal Lawyer Pierre Lamontagne, 30, went to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with a story that four highly placed Liberals-Raymond Denis, 32, then executive assistant to the Immigration Minister; Guy Rouleau, 42, Pearson's own parliamentary secretary; Andre Letendre, 34, Favreau's executive assistant; and Guy Lord, 26, a former special assistant to Favreau-were pressuring him to take it easy in an extradition case. Lamontagne was working for the U.S. Justice Department, which sought the extradition of one Lucien Rivard, a Montreal racketeer wanted...
...Fifth Circuit ruled for Shurbet. Congress, said the court, "intended depletion as a means of allowing an annual deduction to represent the capital exhausted in the taxpayer's business." As a consequence of the decision, the 17,250 landowners in the High Plains region, which stretches along the Canadian River from New Mexico into the Texas panhandle, should now be able to claim a depletion deduction in their next income tax report...
...Lawrence, Mass., bartender, he moved to his grandparents' farm in Edmonton, Canada, when he was 14, later won a scholarship in Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music. Forsaking a career in opera, he gained fame and $30,000 a year as the Pat Boone of Canadian TV. He now makes that much in a week on the cabaret circuit...
...Desbarats (pronounced Deborah) is a tiny, nondescript village on the shore of the Canadian mainland just across Lake Huron from Michigan, but when Chicago socialites speak of Desbarats they mean a wonderfully scenic eight-mile stretch along the nearby St. Joseph Channel that is strewn with small islands on which unpretentious and simple cottages are half-hidden by evergreens and maples. Moreover, they will tell you in Lake Forest that Desbarats is not just a place but a way of life?a life of complete simplicity, where everyone wears old clothes, sleeps in an iron bed, and uses bottled...