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Dates: during 1939-1939
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Because Canadian Associated's job was to organize an industry as well as to parcel out orders, it got as its president not an airplane pilot but a seasoned businessman: aristocratic, 60-year-old Paul Fleetford Sise, onetime overseas infantry officer who had worked for Westinghouse before becoming president of Canada's Northern Electric Co. and board member of many another Canadian company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: War in Canada | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Meantime Canada's air industry, too, will be spurred and expanded. Canada will build bodies into which will go U. S. or British engines. Head of Canadian Associated Aircraft Ltd., a company formed to parcel out contracts among its six affiliates, is Paul Fleetford Sise, no airman but chosen on his business record (president, Northern Electric Co. of Canada) as just the right sort of wealthy, urbane, widely acquainted executive to do a Dominion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Wings for an Empire | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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