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...went to college classes at odd hours, was graduated, and finally got a job in the State Department. But during years abroad, as U.S. consul in Windsor, Ont., Stuttgart, Antwerp, Lisbon and Algiers, and as consul-general in Marseille, he did not forget his memories of Washington. When he came back to the capital as head of the visa division, he confined himself to rigid administration of the immigration laws, surrounded himself with experienced men, kept a policy of complete honesty and forthrightness with legislators. His policy worked out so well that even Nevada's crusty Pat McCarran, self...
Accrued Interest. In Orangeville, Ont., after waiting six years for Albert Self to pay up a 50? debt, Leonard Speers went out to the Self farm, demanded the money, got into a fight, paid a $100 fine for assault...
...work began on the biggest international hydroelectric project in history: a $157 million construction job which will divert part of the Niagara River's water around the falls, shoot it through a 5½-mile tunnel bored in solid rock 300 feet below the heart of Niagara Falls, Ont., and into a giant penstock to create 600,000 h.p. of electricity for fast-growing southern Ontario. The project, not to be confused with the much-debated St. Lawrence seaway, was approved in a treaty signed between the U.S. and Canada last year...
Spring Offensive. Near Port Arthur, Ont., when three cops showed up at Louis Damill's farm with a search warrant, Damill's nettled nanny goat 1) grabbed the warrant and chewed half of it, 2) butted one of the officers, 3) broke loose from the barn after they locked her in, 4) routed the three from the premises...
Success Story. By last week, when Bar reca formally opened a new $500,000 plant at Port Credit, Ont., Canadian Admiral had sold more than 16,000 TV sets and was the nation's biggest television manu- facturer. For 1950, its sales totaled $5,000,000 (up 92% from 1949), net prof its $308,000 (up 123%). The Port Credit plant, a shiny brick-and-glass structure on the mud flats, is turning out sets at a rate of 25,000 a year, and Barreca is ready to hike that to 50,000 on short notice. The first Canadian...