Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edwin H. Walker, 47, big (6 ft. 4 in.), hearty president and general manager of McKinnon Industries Ltd., General Motors' parts-manufacturing subsidiary at Saint Catharines. Ont., was made president of General Motors of Canada, Ltd., succeeding William A. Wecker, retiring at 64. Canadian-born. Walker went to work at McKinnon in 1929, climbed steadily through the ranks (inspector, foreman, superintendent, assistant to general manager) to the top of McKinnon in 1953. He arrived just in time to oversee construction of McKinnon's automated V-8 auto-engine plant. To replace Walker at McKinnon, G.M. picked another...
...Western representatives to the tournament will be Michigan and Colorado College, the two top teams in the Western Hockey League. Colorado, perennially one of the top sextets in the country, will undoubtedly be the favorite in this tournament, largely because its team is almost entirely of Canadian descent...
...nobility in the Alps. Last week, among Grocer Bibbia's fellow sleighriders were such visitors as the Marquis de la Falaise and Liechtenstein's Prince Constantine. Among them, however, there was only one man considered a sure bet to do better than the Italian. He was a Canadian World War II bomber pilot named Doug Connor, holder of just about every record on the Cresta books and winner of nearly every other Cresta cup this year...
...CANADIAN STOCK RIGGING caused Montreal and Toronto Stock Exchanges to sever relations with Edmonton Stock Exchange. Reason: "unethical" conduct by recently resigned Edmonton Exchange Vice President Marcel A. Miles, who helped peddle stock in Green Bay Mining & Exploration Co. By "false, fraudulent and deceptive literature," charged New York State Attorney General, stock was boosted from 50? to $12.50 a share last year, then dropped to 50? to $1 a share in crash that cost U.S. investors an estimated...
...mining firm, Rio Tinto Co., Ltd. of London, which acquired them along with other Blind River properties from Brooklyn-born Joe Hirshhorn for $60 million in cash and securities. At peak the mines will soon be turning out $110,000 worth of uranium concentrates daily to fill the guaranteed Canadian government purchases of $206.9 million...