Word: canberras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ireland, if it isn't one thing, it's bound to be another. For two years the Irish of Eire were miffed because Australia's government was represented in Dublin by a mere charge d'affaires, while Eire had a full-fledged ambassador in Canberra. Last April Australia (20% of whose population is of Irish descent) did its best to make amends, appointed a mystery writer named Dominic Paul McGuire as Ambassador to Eire. He got as far as London, but no farther. Miffed all over again, the Irish had turned McGuire down cold. Why? Well...
...talking about the Republic of Ireland alone and deliberately excluding Northern Ireland, which does not mind talking English. The Republic of Ireland, on the other hand, prefers to ignore the fact that it is not also the government of Northern Ireland. Make McGuire "Ambassador to Ireland," said Dublin to Canberra, and all would be well...
BRITAIN'S English Electric Co. Ltd., designers and manufacturers of the twin-jet Canberra bomber being built under license in the U.S. by Glenn L. Martin Co., landed its second big U.S. hydroelectric contract in a year. The company, which previously won an order for transformers for the Chief Joseph Dam in Washington, underbid four U.S. firms for two generators for the new Mc-Nary Dam on the Columbia River. The bid: $3,651,476, some $600,000 under that of the nearest U.S. competitor, General Electric...
While ABC waited, CBS and NBC worked feverishly against time. In England, hoping to steal a march on its rival, NBC borrowed a Canberra jet bomber, loaded it with their own and CBC's first films of the coronation, sent it off two hours ahead of the three Canberras that were standing by to carry the films of all the networks to Goose Bay, Labrador. Two hours out over the Atlantic, NBC's special jet ran into mechanical trouble and had to turn back...
...film is shot in London, it will be rushed by motorcycle, car and helicopter to the airport, where three pooled Canberra jets will be standing by to take off for Goose Bay, Labrador. Last week NBC and CBS representatives in Washington tried unsuccessfully to wheedle additional jets from the U.S. Air Force. Instead, NBC will load its films at Goose Bay into a souped-up PSI flown by Racing Pilot Stan Reaver. CBS, not to be outdone, will put its films into a PSI flown by Speed Pilot Joe DeBona. Both planes will race for Boston, and the films will...