Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief of correspondents of the U.S. and Canadian News Service for the past eight years, will take the new post of managing director of TIME International Ltd. of Canada. Larry Laybourne was an experienced reporter on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before he came to TIME in 1944 as Ottawa correspondent. In that post he was one of the most widely traveled newsmen in Canada, covering every province from the Maritimes to British Columbia. He moved to Washington as deputy bureau chief in 1946, was LIFE'S News Bureau chief in New York, 1949-50, then took over...
...Washington bureau. A graduate of Wesleyan University, where his father, later governor of Connecticut, was president, McConaughy came to TIME in 1938 as a summer-vacation office boy. During World War II he was a Marine bombing control officer in the Pacific. He served as bureau chief in Ottawa and Seattle before he moved to Washington in 1951 to report on Capitol Hill. Covering Congress for TIME, big (6 ft. 2 in., 203 lbs.), greying Jim McConaughy says, has been like "trying to report six fires with each threatening to get out of control, while 19 different fire companies roar...
...their common backyard. On the Arctic Circle, the DEW line (for Distant Early Warning), a 3,000-mile electronic tripwire, was switched on; for the first time, Canada and the U.S. could feel reasonably secure against a Pearl Harbor attack from the north. At the same time, Washington and Ottawa announced that the two nations' air forces would form a joint command (ADCANUS) for continental defense. ADCANUS will be commanded by Air Force General Earle E. Partridge at the U.S. air-defense center at Colorado Springs, Colo. Its deputy commander in chief: Air Marshal Roy Slemon, until now Canada...
...combat one of the worst U.S. outbreaks of anthrax in a quarter-century, Oklahoma threw National Guard roadblocks around Craig and Ottawa counties to prevent shipments of livestock, began vaccination of more than 60,000 cattle. Veterinarians working 16-hour days each vaccinated 788 to 1,000 animals a day. At least 200 cattle were dead of the disease; so far, no cases have spread to humans...
...first Tory Prime Minister with a non-British name) loves Britain-and sees it as a useful lever to help Canada resist U.S. domination. In London for a Commonwealth Conference soon after his election, Diefenbaker invited his fellow Prime Ministers to send their finance ministers to Ottawa this fall to talk up Commonwealth trade. And back in Ottawa, he called on Canadians to shift 15% of their U.S. purchase orders to British suppliers, thus strengthen Britain's ability to buy Canadian wheat...