Word: lyon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cost of power-seaway project is $579,000,000. Of this, Canada is to pay $277,000,000 (including credit of $133,000,000 for completed Welland Canal around Niagara Falls); the U.S. $302,000,000 (including credit of $17,000,000). Canada's cautious Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King wangled a good deal: her part of the work need not be completed before 1949; if war costs are too high, she can take even longer. Thus, if the U.S. wants the project now, she must foot all the bills, at least temporarily...
Every golfing oldster has heard about the fabulous legend of Canadian George Lyon, who scored a 70 on his 70th birthday, continued to "shoot his age" when he was 71, 72, 73, 74, 75. Last week there were no Lyons in the pack. Best Class A score for 36 holes was 180 (88-92), chalked up by C. T. Jaffray, 75, of Minneapolis...
Shortly to be transferred to a new branch office in Chicago is Graham Hutton, blond, 36-year-old ex-editorialist of the London Economist, well known to U.S. lecture audiences. Expected to follow him to the U.S. is David Bowes Lyon, the Queen's brother. Strongly resembling the Queen, handsome, intelligent, good-humored Bowes Lyon made his name for efficiency and helpfulness as press officer of the Economic Warfare Ministry...
...Negotiated at Hyde Park with Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King an agreement between the U.S. and Canada to coordinate production facilities (see p. 27). In a seven-hour session the two agreed to exchange defense materials. Canada's dollar exchange will be bolstered by the sale of machine tools, aluminum, ships (perhaps), an unspecified number of Bren machine guns to the U.S. for some $200,000,000 to $300,000,000. Canadian economy, threatened by its sale of wheat, war supplies, etc. to Great Britain for sterling-supplies Britain now gets from the U.S. on a lend...
...asked Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies to postpone his trip to the U.S. and remain for a conference of Dominion leaders: New Zealand's Prime Minister Peter Fraser, on his way to London, South Africa's Jan Christiaan Smuts and Canada's William Lyon Mackenzie King, if they could leave their problems at home. The long-awaited Axis drive against the bastions of British sea power, the drive to capture the subject countries of the British Empire and to isolate the English-speaking ones, had begun in earnest...