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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to hundreds of British and Canadian firms, an estimated 26 U.S. companies are operating out of Nassau suitcases. The Bethlehem Steel Corp. lurks behind a mahogany shingle reading, "The Registered Office of Bethlehem Steel Co. Limited, Overseas Underwriters Limited." Similar shingles hang outside Nassau offices of outfits such as Crucible Steel, U.S. Steel (which calls itself Navios), Whirlpool, Cummins Diesel, RCA, J. I. Case (agricultural equipment) and Grant Advertising. Outboard Marine International (Evinrude and Johnson outboard motors) has a staff of 55, including U.S. citizens, Englishmen, Canadians and a handful of Bahamian Comptometer operators. In air-conditioned comfort behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BAHAMAS: Treasure Islands | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...Lamont Geological Observatory, because an atomic fission bomb produces 160 times as much of it, and 20 times as much as appeared in milk after weapons tests. While Sr-89 does not remain active long enough to harm an adult, it may be a threat to children (a Canadian boy has been found with three times as much Sr-89as Sr-90 in his bones). A pregnant woman may get Sr-89 in milk or other fresh foods, so the danger is greatest to the unborn, said Dr. Schulert, "since the growing fetal skeleton reflects the diet of the mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fallout & Hangovers | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

Married. Chiharu Igaya, 27, Japan's Olympic skier (second in the slalom at Cortina in 1956), '57 graduate of Dartmouth College, who tied for the U.S. National Downhill championship in 1955, won the Canadian Slalom championship in 1957; and Takayo Ueno, 24, daughter of a retired sportswriter; in Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 20, 1959 | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...said Minister Fairclough, "immediately they come to this land, want to bring out their brothers and sisters and other relatives." To put a brake on this Italian custom and help restore the old immigration pattern, the Cabinet last week adopted an order-in-council suspending the free immigration of Canadian residents' non-dependent relatives from Italy-not to mention the rest of Continental Europe (except France), Lebanon, Israel and Latin America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Fewer Italians, Please | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...test this theory, Canadian Biologist William F. Baldwin chose one of the world's least attractive creatures: a sharp-beaked "kissing bug" (Rhodinus prolixits], a tiny (½ in. long) brown resident of South America that lives on blood and sometimes sucks at human lips. Dr. Baldwin, a radiation specialist at Atomic Energy of Canada's remote biology laboratory in Chalk River, Ont., went to work on the bug because it signals visually when its cells are dividing: they divide only when Rhodinus needs to grow a new coat. This process occurs after the bug is newly gorged with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Survivors? | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

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