Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lends spiritual guidance to attending multitudes. Whether he is a master of industry (Arjay Miller, 50, president of Ford) or a master of jurisprudence (Byron R. "Whizzer" White, 49, Supreme Court Justice), he determines the patterns of social change. Whether the opinion molder is at the University of Toronto (Marshall McLuhan, 55) or on Madison Avenue (David Ogilvy, 55), he shapes the thoughts and desires of a continent...
Because of its punitive tone, the bill provoked a strong protest in Washington. Approving an otherwise routine merger between the California Canadian Bank of San Francisco, owned by Toronto's Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and the Northern California National Bank of San Mateo, of which Singer Bing Crosby is chairman, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. deplored "the apparent lack of reciprocal treatment" accorded U.S. banks in Canada...
...quit New York during the depression for Toronto, where for 20 years he worked hard, shrewdly and courageously, "collecting moola for those bums I love -the prospectors...
...lost $60 million on 1965 passenger service, it has now ordered five of the turbotrains developed by the U.S.'s United Aircraft Corp. Even without roadbed improvements, these lightweight, low-slung, turbojet-powered whizbangs should be able to clip nearly an hour off the present five-hour Montreal-Toronto...
...Canadian National's reckoning, on a downtown-to-downtown basis the turbotrains should approach the time-including traveling to and from airports-that the Montreal-Toronto trip takes by propjet Viscount. In fact, the ride will be somewhat similar: passengers will hear a faint engine whine, get free airline-style meals, sit in aluminum coaches slightly pressurized to keep out dust and dampen track noise. A pendular suspension system tilts the car inward on curves, thus eliminating the lurches of ordinary trains and enabling the train to hit 110 m.p.h. on existing tracks, and eventually 160 m.p.h. on improved...