Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that shook the Liberals was the government's measure to advance up to $80 million to the U.S.-controlled Trans-Canada Pipe Lines, Ltd. to build a natural-gas pipeline from Alberta to eastern Canada (TIME, May 21). Not only was the loan itself unpopular, because of growing Canadian concern about U.S. investors' control of national resources, but the heavy-handed way in which the Liberals attempted to ram the measure through Parliament stirred up the entire country. As soon as Trade & Commerce Minister C. D. Howe introduced it to Parliament, he immediately announced that he would enforce...
...organized by Texas Oilman Clint Murchison, was the only one with the necessary pipe and equipment to begin building the long-delayed pipeline this year. Said Howe: "Nothing that can be said in this house can change those facts." The Tories demanded that the loan be made to a Canadian company and they ridiculed the government for lending tax money to a foreign firm. Said Tory Leader Drew: "Any such proposal before the Congress of the United States would be greeted with laughter that would be heard by the Americans on the D.E.W. line...
...controlled firm. Both parties immediately launched a filibuster to delay the bill. The government's main reason for backing the U.S. firm is that Trans-Canada has pipe and equipment on hand to begin work immediately. A national election is expected next year, and the Canadian public, the Liberals believe, is more interested in seeing the long-stalled pipeline built than in worrying about the nationality of the builders...
Born. To Peter Ustinov, 35, pudgy British playwright (The Love of Four Colonels) and cinemactor (Quo Vadis, We're No Angels), and Suzanne Cloutier, 27, Canadian-born cinemactress: their second child, his third, a son; in London. Name: Igor Nicholas. Weight...
...synthesis was announced in the current Journal of the American Chemical Society, only a year following the discovery of the drug's structure. Research was completed by Woodward; three Swiss chemists, F.E. Bader, H. Bickel, and A.J. Frey: and a Canadian, R. W. Kierstead...