Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London, Sir Winston Churchill donned top hat and frock coat and turned up at the City's ancient Guildhall for the unveiling of a larger-than-life statue of himself by Sculptor Oscar Nemon. After one look he commented approvingly. But later, Author Gerald Hamilton, 67, a self-confessed "black sheep" of his family, interned in both World Wars for pro-German sympathies, announced that he had modeled for the body of the statue...
...With $200,000, donated in part by the Rockefeller Foundation and TIME Inc., Columbia University announced that a team of scholars from its faculty would now go to work on the first major edition of the papers of Alexander Hamilton since that compiled by the late Henry Cabot Lodge and reprinted in 1904. Among the hitherto unpublished items the Columbia volumes will contain: documents written while Hamilton was Washington's aide-de-camp, his Cabinet papers, reports to Congress, and his draft of Washington's Farewell Address...
...seaway's impact on both the geography and economy of the continent will be enormous. More than 8,000 miles of new coastline will be added to the U.S-s and Canada. Such lakefront cities as Chicago, Cleveland, l)uluth, Buffalo, Toronto and Hamilton will become genuine deepwater ports, 500 miles closer to Europe by seaway than at present. Goods now shipped by rail to the Atlantic from the U.S. Midwest at a cost of $13 a ton will be sent down the St. Lawrence to the sea for about $1.70. Millions will be spent along the waterfront to enlarge...
...major city on the seaway route is planning waterfront improvements to attract shipping. Chicago will start work this summer on a $22.5 million dock expansion program; Toronto already has built a new million-dollar freight terminal, and is filling in waterfront sites for two more. Cleveland, Toledo, Duluth, Buffalo, Hamilton, Montreal and Quebec all have laid plans to better their harbors and build bigger docks. More than 40,000,000 tons of ocean cargo are expected to clear through the seaway in its first year of operation, yielding an average of $1 a ton in harbor fees and loading charges...
Psychosomatic. In Hamilton, Ont., Alfred Henderson, visiting his wife as she was about to undergo an appendectomy, complained of feeling ill, was examined by doctors, had his own appendix removed 30 minutes after his wife...