Word: helpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right in." So says Canada's Citizenship and Immigration Minister Ellen Fairclough, and this week her department is backing its sentiments with action. Two Canadian information offices are opening in Los Angeles and Minneapolis to supplement existing offices in New York and Chicago. Their purpose: to offer all help "short of money" to desirable U.S. citizens interested in moving to Canada on a permanent basis...
...total of 10,846 puts the U.S. in fourth place as a source of new Canadian residents, behind Italy, Britain and Germany. By any standards, the U.S. immigrant has a high quality. The day is over when U.S. farmers, homesteaders and adventurers (50,000 in 1920) hurried north to help open a new land. Last year, only 54 of those admitted were classed as laborers; the new U.S. immigrant is a stable, older man, usually with a family and a nest egg, who moves to Canada's densely populated areas (in order of 1958 rank: Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia...
...letter, beginning in 1912, when Actress Campbell, at the height of her fame and beauty, was writing to her "Joey the Clown" about appearing in his Pygmalion, through the declining days in Hollywood (where Stella was like "some sinking frigate firing broadside after broadside at anyone who tried to help her"), to the year before Stella's bitter, poverty-stricken death in a Pyrenees village in 1940, when the 83-year-old Shaw wrote a plaintive curtain line...
Sociologist Jack Randolph Conrad of Southwestern at Memphis (enrollment: 651) was asked to help suggest the best possible courses for the Scientific Age. His answer: look to the Stone Age. The most basic course, he said solemnly last week in the school's alumni newsletter, should be "introductory survival technology." Items: "How to make acorn meal, how to make simple traps, how to tan leather, how to make simple tools and weapons from stone, how to smelt ore, how to find safe drinking water, how to recognize poisonous plants, how to keep an infant alive without milk...
...fact that the slide will not be more severe is a good indication of the basic health of the U.S. economy. Despite the steel strike, most sectors of the economy are moving along steadily. To help offset a bigger drop caused by inventory depletion, the gross national product will benefit in the third quarter by increases of $1 billion in state and local expenditures, $1 billion in new plant and equipment, $3 billion in consumer spending. "Despite the crippling of one of the nation's chief industries," said the First National City Bank of New York in its monthly...