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Many Canadian businesses are subsidiaries of giant American corporations which contribute not only capital but also much of the technical knowhow for their Northern adjuncts. This has made it less necessary for the subsidiaries to hire large research staffs, and forced thousands of highly skilled Canadians, including a large percentage of the engineers and scientists graduating from Canadian universities, to migrate...
...NATO's new nuclear worries is Charles de Gaulle's determination to give France its own atomic striking force. After De Gaulle exploded two of his costly bombs in the Sahara, other NATO powers knew that the time was coming when West Germany-which already possesses the knowhow to make cheap, do-it-yourself A-bombs-might also insist on an independent atomic force. This is a prospect that even the majority of Germans regard without enthusiasm and which raises distinct hackles on other NATO necks, most notably Britain...
When space knowhow increases, says Dr. Carl E. Snyder of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., spacecraft may be built largely of plastics, which will fare better than metals in the hostile outer world. Snyder and W. B. Cross of Goodyear Aircraft Corp. told an Air Force space conference in Dayton that many metals "boil away" slowly in the near-perfect vacuum of space. Plastics, which are made of long molecular chains linked and tangled together, are less volatile than metals, and therefore should last longer...
...often we permit our students to think that they have come have only to equip themselves with skills and 'knowhow' to become America's butchers, bakers, and candle-stick makers. Thousands of our students acquire skills and techniques to qualify them well-enough for the vocations and a professions; but what of the greatest vocation...
...will operate on a partnership basis with the Anglo-Transvaal Consolidated Investment Co., Ltd., a $32 million holding company, one of the most active in South Africa. American Anglo-Transvaal will supply the cash; Anglo-Transvaal (with active subsidiaries in steel, oil, glass, coal, lumber, manganese) will provide the knowhow...