Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...process for separating the copper from the nickel. Two small U. S. companies had the process, but very little nickel; Canada had plenty of nickel but no process. In 1902 Charles Schwab, now Bethlehem Steel's board chairman, helped to promote a merger of the U. S. and Canadian companies. In 1929 the major competitive mine in the Sudbury area was absorbed, and International Nickel reached its present form...
Throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas no reaction to what His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom had done was closer to the general consensus than the reaction of His Majesty's Government in the Dominion of Canada. Cried a Canadian Cabinet Minister close to Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King: "A shameless betrayal of the League! This will strengthen the hands of Canadian isolationists. After this, will anything seem important enough to take us out of our own continent...
...When we took our first flight over this territory," Washburn said, "we found no less than four new glaciers of considerable size, and nineteen peaks over 10,000 feet high. Then we also found out that the Canadian-Alaskan boundary is over five miles...
...expect to see in the near future," he said, "an intercollegiate badminton league which will include besides Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, the Canadian universities of Toronto and McGill." The only obstacle that is holding this up at present, in his opinion, is the lack of facilities for play in college gymnasiums which are used constantly in winter for basketball...
Purcell, who has been playing for 10 or 11 years, was Canadian champion in 1929-30 and English champion in 1931. Since 1932, when he was declared a professional because of certain newspaper articles, he has never been beaten, having defeated the leading stars in Canada, England, and the United States...