Word: ont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...original SEC suit, filed in the spring of 1965, charged that 14 men had used advance knowledge of a copper ore strike in Timmons, Ont, to buy stock in Texas Gulf Sulphur. Lamont was initially said to be the only man not to have profited personally from the information; the original suit merely said that he had passed the information on to a friend, who had made large purchases for several banking clients. The suit was later amended, however, to charge that Lamont had bought securities for himself...
Born in Southampton, Ont., of a Scottish father and a mother of English descent, Thomson was a bright but restless student. He left Canada at 18 without finishing high school, headed south of the Canadian border, turned up at the home of an uncle in the Queens borough of New York City. Interested in figures and bookkeeping, he went to Wall Street for a job, was hired by Merrill as a runner at $14 a week. "I remember the salary well," says Thomson, whose present annual income is over $100,000. "I couldn't live...
...announced the news of the new field. The word had already been carried on Dow-Jones tickers. Brokers' representatives had attended the press conference and phoned the information to their offices. Rumors of the find and reports of heavy rigging equipment moving through the nearby town of Timmins, Ont., had been carried in newspapers for two weeks; on the morning of the Texas Gulf Sulphur press conference, Ontario's minister of mines made a jubilant official announcement of his province's bonanza. By the time Lament placed his 3,000-share order, the price of Texas Gulf...
...Ottawa, Ont...
...farmer in Saskatchewan, but the bleak and lonely life sent him scurrying back east. "Goddam, what a fool I am," he berated himself. He turned to selling radios in desolate northern Ontario, then discovered that people heard only static. So he built his own radio station. When the Timmons, Ont., Citizen pressured him to drop a certain news program, Thomson angrily bought out the paper for $6,000. Inadvertently, he had started his publishing empire...