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...cited numerous examples of alleged deception of public shareholders. It noted that United Canso Oil & Gas Ltd., which was controlled by the Buckley family, in 1971 acquired a 20% interest in a license to explore for oil and gas in the British North Sea. The Canso board sold its share in 1975 for $50 million plus $7 million in previous expenses. Canso's board then appointed two of its directors to make an "independent" study of what Canso owed Catawba in royalties on the oil It would have produced if It had not sold its rights. The two directors...
Twelve-Day Search. Weak from short rations and exertion, chilled by near-freezing rain, they fell to their knees in prayer when a Catalina flying boat (called a "Canso" in Canada) flew over them, wagging its wings. The pilot directed them to the nearest lake, where he landed and set out to meet them. After twelve days, the biggest air search (40 planes, one blimp) in Canada's history was over. Said resourceful Sergeant Scalise, thinking of the regular plane he was to have taken: "I guess I took the wrong taxi...
...LECTURES ON MEDIAEVAL MUSIC. I. In French: Illustrative Instrumental Music and Song. Professor Jean Beck. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, 4.30 P. M. La musique des troubadours: la canso, le sirventes, la tenso, l'alba et la pastourelle provencales...
...Article IX makes Strait of Canso free, which it has not always been:- Cases cited by Morgan. Congressional Record...
...steamer Cedar Grove, from England for Halifax, sunk off Canso, N. S., Wednesday night in the midst of a heavy gale, after striking a rock. A boat's load from the ship are missing...
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