Word: laurentians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power to extradite Canadian citizens for such an offense. But in 1952 the two countries signed an extradition treaty to cover stock frauds. In Detroit last week, marking the first use of the treaty, a U.S. federal grand jury indicted two Montreal brokerage houses, T. M. Parker, Inc. and Laurentian Securities, Inc., and 14 of their salesmen on charges of fraudulent stock sales. Charged the indictment: a year ago the group bilked U.S. citizens of some $300,000 in only ten weeks...
...CRIMSON story barely hinted at the effect of this result. But doubling the size of the known universe the expansion is doubled. Now by computing backwards, the age of the universe becomes about six billion year, somewhat more in line with geological results from radioactivity of rocks in the Laurentian Shield...
Climatic shifts offer hope for such people, Maciver explains. For instance, the inhabitants of the Laurentian hills are now "superstitious and disease ridden" because their climate is too cold...