Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quins alive. The Star was willing to handle Canadian sales and in July, when the Quins were seven weeks old, it called for bids on the U. S. rights. Newspaper Enterprise Association's $2,050 for six months was top. When that contract expired, NEA and Hearst's King Features Syndicate got together to halt a bidding contest at $10,000. In the spring of 1936, the NEA-Quins contract was renewed at the same figure...
...State a right to punish a man for a crime committed due to pressure put upon him through a miscarriage of justice? Producer Walter Wanger leaves the conclusion to the audience, having arranged as a tacit persuader Eddie's doomed and breath-taking flight toward the Canadian border with his wife, Joan (Sylvia Sidney). Justice works out a satisfactory answer, even though the trooper who marks Eddie with the cross hairs of his telescope sight, never pulls the trigger...
...makes radios and controls the Cincinnati Reds baseball team, WLW is the most powerful radio station in the U. S. (500,000 watts). It soon became a cooperating member of the Mutual net work. On June 1, 1935 M. B. S. began trading sustaining programs with the Canadian Radio Commission, and in September added CKLW (Windsor, Ont.) to the network. Canadian programs gave U. S. listeners variety and CKLW gave M. B. S. a powerful station in the Detroit area...
...plus Equity's own money put Mr. Milton into Equity. Said Lawyer Schenker: ''[It's] a Van Sweringen operation in the investment trust field." After detailing various operations of Equity Corp., Mr. Schenker drew from Mr. Milton testimony about the formation of Merton Shares, a Canadian corporation, asked him why he had gone to Canada to insure success in a U. S. transaction. Apologized Mr. Milton: "I don't know, it could perhaps have been done some other way. It was a continual headache...
...translates as Grey Owl, headed west from northern Ontario with a family of beaver. With a view to popularizing his campaign to preserve wild life, Grey Owl had started a colony of these engaging little animals, written books about them, lectured in Canada and England, was rewarded when the Canadian National Park Service provided him with a permanent establishment in Prince Albert National Park (northern Saskatchewan). The mainstays of Grey Owl's beaver colony were a husky intelligent male called Rawhide, and a chattery, 60-lb., temperamental female called Jelly Roll. For almost a week they traveled, the beaver...