Word: mcgills
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John C. Cooper, Professor at the Institute of International Air Law at McGill University, suggests a strip of national air space within which all conventional aircraft fly. This follows the present system where nations can fly over each other's land only after negotiating agreements. Above this territorial space would be a zone up to three hundred miles high of "contiguous" air space. Haley points out that nations would have partial sovereignty over this area, since most future flights through this zone would be ground to ground rocket flights. Since transportation would have to use the landing facilities...
...finished. Belgium, Germany, and Italy suggested a 1959 conference in Europe with a preliminary meeting next year. For the week's discussion had demonstrated that capitalism has more to offer the world than cash. Its message: through technology, efficient management, research and the brand of valor that McGill University's Dr. David McCord Wright called the "energy to venture into uncertainty," competitive business can widen the distribution of goods, realize new sources of profit and do both in such fashion as to fortify free societies...
...under constant pressure to achieve economic and social gains, they cannot realistically hope to match in a few years the living standards built up by Western nations over the centuries. In Mexico, for example, noted Dr. David McCord Wright, professor of economics and political science at Montreal's McGill University, the value of goods and services produced per capita in 1955 was $187, v. $2,343 in the U.S. Even to increase the per capita gross national product to the present U.S. level by 1980−when Mexico's population will have doubled−Mexico would have...
...Anita Boyer Field, Frederick Field's wife, and former wife of McGill University's research chemist Raymond Boyer. Chemist Boyer served 19 months for passing Canadian explosives secrets to the Soviets...
...Overall management of the seven-paper group and a string of allied TV and radio stations fell increasingly to James Cox Jr., the twice-married publisher's son. But the governor still showed up at his Dayton office, held frequent long-distance powwows with Atlanta Constitution Editor Ralph McGill, even found time to indulge his second passion, golf.* A fortnight ago, Fighting Jimmy suffered a stroke in the $3,000,000 Dayton newspaper building he had dedicated last month, died five days later at the home outside Dayton that he called Trailsend...