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Young and Hirshhorn, Goldstein said, had come into the McNutt company by virtue of a deal with a Canadian company called Pax Athabasca Uranium Mines, Ltd. which Young and Hirshhorn control. Last summer they swapped the company's Saskatchewan land claims for 1,800,000 shares of American-Canadian. News of the swap, said Goldstein, had sent Pax Athabasca's stock soaring (recent price: $28 v. 5? in 1949). Counting the shares in American-Canadian Uranium held by Pax Athabasca, said Goldstein, insiders owned 83% of American-Canadian's stock. All told, they...
...night of May 17, 1900, Victoria rejoiced. Her troops that day had relieved Mafeking, besieged seven months by the Boers. Though no great war, this had been the gravest challenge to Pax Britannica since Waterloo, four years before Victoria was born. On Mafeking night in the upper quadrangle of Windsor Castle, Eton boys sang patriotic songs for the old Queen. She sat by a window in the dusk, leaning out again & again to say "Thank you. Thank you from my heart." Many of the singing boys or their sons were to die in the two great wars to come...
...title of last night's lecture was "Pax Americana...
Recalling the world's two great periods, of peace under the Roman and British Empires an the "Pax Romana" and the "Pax Brittanica," Senator Ralph E. Flanders last night called for a "Pax Americana" in the third and final Godkin Lecture...
Flanders, delivering the second of three Godkin Lectures on "The American Century," spoke before an audience of about 100. His final talk, on the topic, "Pax Americans," will be delivered at 8 p.m. tonight in Litauer...