Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After little more than a year as Navy Secretary, Anderson stepped up to the Defense Department's No. 2 post. Deputy Defense Secretary. In mid-1955 he left the Administration to take over as president of Ventures, Ltd., a Canadian holding company with worldwide mining interests. When Treasury Secretary George Humphrey decided to go back to the steel business, he persuaded Anderson to return to Washington to succeed him. In mid-July 1957, outgoing Secretary Humphrey took incoming Secretary Anderson to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to see the first dollar bills coming off the presses with Anderson...
...before in the National Hockey League. His face was covered by a flesh-colored, fiber-glass mask slashed by two dark ovals for eyes and a hole for a mouth that looked from a distance like a gush of black blood. But Jacques Plante, 30, the brooding, acrobatic French Canadian who is hockey's finest goalie, was oblivious to the shocked cries from the stands. Said he: "I don't give a damn how it looks...
Many a U.S. railroadman believes that the answer to the problem lies not in charges or recriminations, but in a joint effort on both sides to discover how featherbedding practices can be eliminated without undue hardship. The industry favors a plan adopted by Canadian railroads, which has helped cut down featherbedding by not replacing firemen working on freights or in the yards who have died or retired. Privately, many railroadmen concede that the U.S. situation is not entirely the unions' fault; U.S. railroads are often run inefficiently, with management clinging to ancient practices as fervently as do the unions...
Management proposes to raise the mileage limit to 160 miles per day, thus cutting out many "division stops" and reducing the number of employees necessary. They also hope to save $200 million annually by eliminating the position of fireman, as was done after a prolonged strike on the Canadian Pacific Railway last year...
This commercial-minded argument fell flat in the wake of the U.S. scandals. Snapped one private broadcaster: "Van Doren has done more damage to free enterprise in Canadian broadcasting in an hour than the CBC in 20 years...