Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only on two major exchanges have stocks moved up lately in close harmony with Wall Street: Amsterdam, where 250 of the 2,400 listed stocks are those of U.S. companies, and Toronto, where an abundance of U.S. money is invested...
...foreign economists agreed with German Federal Bank Director Otmar Emminger, who felt that "a mild U.S. recession three to six months from now is a possibility." But many more, pointing to the continuing rise in U.S. purchasing and production, side with Allen T. Lambert, president of Canada's Toronto-Dominion Bank, who holds that "there is a tendency to overplay some of the weaknesses because North America is entering a new period of world competition. I certainly don't expect a recession in the next six to nine months.'' And a surprising number of the foreign...
Depending on Outsiders. There was also a natural rallying around the government in a time of national crisis, and most Canadians reluctantly had to admit that Diefenbaker's action was generally correct, even if overdue. Said A. T. Lambert, president of the Toronto-Dominion Bank: "Canada recognizes that we have been depending too much on outsiders to do too much for us and that we must depend more on our own efforts. A U.S. Treasury Department spokesman figured that Canadian dependence on its own efforts would cost the U.S. $350 million in trade and tourists if it lasted...
They swept the big cities, particularly Montreal and traditionally Conservative Toronto, but the prairies held fast for Diefenbaker, the small-town prairie lawyer, whose $425 million grain deal with Red China has helped the farmers prosper. Mike Pearson, the Nobel prize-winning diplomat, had proved to be an attractive Liberal candidate, but an insufficiently forceful one. The laborite New Democrats grabbed another 19 seats...
Undoubtedly the most successful supermarketeer in Europe is Toronto-born Willard Garfield Weston, 64, a philanthropic, publicity-shy millionaire who controls the U.S.'s National Tea Co. and Britain's huge Allied Bakeries. In the last five years, Weston has built a chain of 236 supermarkets in Britain, is adding to it at the rate of three new stores a week, and intends soon to absorb two grocery chains in France...