Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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America's fence in the sky now begins at the Pinetree radar line, straddling the U.S.-Canadian border. Begun in 1950, it is now in operation. Cost: some $250 million (paid one-third by Canada, two-thirds by the U.S.). Pinetree is magnificently planned to track incoming raiders and guide U.S. interceptors in air combat. But radar's 200-mile range provides very short notice of attack. The Air Defense Command will not now guarantee any warning time...
...some $10 million in foreign currency last year -almost $3,000 per worker. To keep the dollars rolling in, the Scottish Council makes continuing surveys of foreign markets, puts out a monthly magazine listing export opportunities, and peppers Scottish exporters with useful tips, such as: "The president of the Canadian Association of Purchasing Agents is a Scot!" The council has lured 22 U.S. and two Canadian firms to Scotland, ranging from watchmakers (U.S. Time Corp. and Westclox) through electric razors (Sunbeam) and business machines (I.B.M., National Cash Register), with such success that $3 out of every $4 invested in industry...
...industry, and not enough industry to keep able-bodied men there. But dozens of dams and power stations are being built or planned (Scotland's prewar generating capacity has been increased fivefold), forests are being reseeded and replanted, abandoned farms reclaimed from the encroaching bracken. John Hobbs, a Canadian who made a fortune in whisky, has set out to woo the Highland crofter from his sheep and show him how to make more money with cattle, demonstrating with a 16,000-acre ranch of his own, complete from cowboys to roundups...
...release, but the Chinese did nothing about it until the eleven U.S. flyers were recently sentenced to prison in China for espionage (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Then, the same day that the Americans were condemned, Peking suddenly announced that MacKenzie would be released. Three Red Chinese soldiers escorted the Canadian to the barricaded China-Hong Kong border where an R.C.A.F. officer waited to meet...
...group of five Northwest power companies, headed by Paul Raver, onetime Bonneville Power administrator and now president of Seattle's city-owned Municipal Light and Power System, want to build a 700-ft. high, $250-million earth-fill dam across the Columbia where it winds through the Canadian wilderness. At the dam itself and two other sites between Mica Creek and the border, Canada could build powerhouses to produce 1,700,000 kw. of power. The Canadian government would also release enough water from Mica Creek during the dry winter months to produce 1,240,000 additional...