Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MISSILES will be produced in a foreign country for first time. Douglas Aircraft will license Canadian firms to produce its supersonic Sparrow II air-to-air missile. General Dynamics' Canadair Ltd. will make Sparrow's airframe, and Canadian Westinghouse will turn out guidance system...
...four to six per cent, repayable in twenty years. The agency investigates each loan carefully, and requires that the loan be "bankable"; that is, that the borrower be able to repay fully in "hard currency." "Hard currencies" are those of high standing in the international market--chiefly U.S. and Canadian dollars, the pound sterling, Swiss francs and West German marks...
...turned out, Fairchild made no turkey callers-or corsets. Hopping into missiles, Fairchild soon found itself expanding its engine as well as its airframe business. The J83 engine soon proved so promising for light jet aircraft that General Dynamics' Canadian subsidiary, Canadair Ltd., chose it as the power plant for the prototype of its new CL-41 trainer, and Lockheed will also use it for its Jet-Star executive transport. Fairchild added half a dozen other lines, from electronic guidance systems for missiles to an aluminum bridge much like a plane wing, in hopes of winning a slice...
Diefenbaker's vision called for the mineral development of the vast, empty northland for Canada's exclusive benefit. Some observers detected tinny overtones of anti-American sentiment in the vision's emphasis on economic nationalism and Diefenbaker's veiled warnings to foreign owners of Canadian resource industries...
...Energy. AEC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss announced a "limited'' step-up in AEC purchases of uranium concentrate from the 16 private mills now operating and the seven under construction. In addition. AEC said that four entirely new mills are needed. As Congress has pointed out. contracts for Canadian and African concentrates, which fill half of U.S. needs, will end in the early 1960s. In all, AEC wants to add about 3,000 tons of ore to the U.S. daily milling capacity of 20,400 tons previously planned for 1962. As a first move. AEC announced negotiations with International...