Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looked stronger than at any time since 1936 when Duplessis, campaigning as a reformer against graft, ousted them from power. Quebec's splinter parties joined in an anti-Duplessis coalition, and the strong federal Liberal organization, dropping its hands-off policy toward provincial affairs, sent a team of Ottawa Cabinet ministers to Quebec to campaign...
...Manhattan's Rockefeller Center (R.C.A. Building lobby); in Ditchling, England. Because he always hated having his works "pawed over by a lot of strangers," Sir Frank gave away some half million dollars' worth to friends and fans. Others are pawed over in: the Canadian Parliament Building (Ottawa), London's Royal Exchange Building, the Cleveland Court House, Missouri's capitol building, the civic center in Swansea, Wales...
Another angry debate broke out in Ottawa last week on the issue of U.S. investment in Canada (TIME, April 30). It was touched off by a government measure, introduced in Parliament, to lend up to $80 million to Trans-Canada Pipe Lines, Ltd., a company more than 80% owned and controlled by U.S. gas and oil interests headed by Texas Millionaire Clint Murchison. The loan is to be used to build the first leg (Alberta to Winnipeg) of a long-delayed transcontinental natural-gas pipeline...
...Ottawa, where the wheat glut is the government's No. i political problem, there was such satisfaction over the orders that few people paused to consider why the Reds had placed them. In the past the Iron Curtain nations were wheat exporters themselves. The surprisingly big Soviet order for Canadian wheat, which is to be delivered to Siberia, was supposedly placed in order to spare the Russians the trouble of rail-hauling grain from the Ukraine. But if that were the case, there should be surplus grain on hand in western Russia for satellite Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary...
...like many another Scotsman, is a man of twinkling good humor, a quality that has helped to make him an extraordinarily successful salesman. Born on a dairy farm near Ottawa, he served in the Canadian army in World War I, then went on what he thought would be a visit to the U.S. But he never returned to live in Canada. Instead, he got an advertising job with the Cleveland Press. Later he switched to national magazine advertising and came to TIME in 1937. Since then, he has been manager of our branch offices in Cleveland, Chicago and New York...