Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...machine for iron-lung patients and other victims of paralysis. We should point out, however, that you have referred to the equipment in question as a Dictaphone, which is the trade name of our good friends, the Dictaphone Corp., not of our firm, Sonograph Ltd., which is the major Canadian company in the dictating-machine field here...
...like many another Scotsman, is a man of twinkling good humor, a quality that has helped to make him an extraordinarily successful salesman. Born on a dairy farm near Ottawa, he served in the Canadian army in World War I, then went on what he thought would be a visit to the U.S. But he never returned to live in Canada. Instead, he got an advertising job with the Cleveland Press. Later he switched to national magazine advertising and came to TIME in 1937. Since then, he has been manager of our branch offices in Cleveland, Chicago and New York...
...Invited Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and Mexican President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines to a meeting in Washington next month. (Both St. Laurent and Ruiz Cortines accepted, the latter subject to approval of the Mexican Congress...
...psychiatry all that it is cracked up to be? Emphatically not, says Montreal Psychiatrist Elliott Emanuel. "In our generation," he writes in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, "some of the biggest names in psychiatry are men whose scientific contributions have been negligible, whose contact with individual patients has been minimal for several years, and whose time is devoted to committees, journalism, and publicity for themselves and their institutions . . . Within the various schools of psychiatry we have much mutual backslapping and back-scratching in spite of intense personal rivalry, while a bland and successful façade is presented...
Like many another U.S. flyer, Dahl headed for Canada early in World War II to enlist in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He became a squadron leader (equals U.S. major) and married a Canadian girl, belatedly explaining that his marriage to wife Edith had never been exactly solemnized, from a legal point of view. Before the war ended, Whitey was in trouble again, charged with selling government pistols, compasses, lamps and radios on the black market while in command of a station in Brazil. He got off with no penalty but a discharge...