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New Idea. Ross Lawford, left, president of Ortech, and Steve Carter, senior consultant, hold the firm's new gaseous fuel injection kit.
New Idea. Ross Lawford, left, president of Ortech, and Steve Carter, senior consultant, hold the firm's new gaseous fuel injection kit.

New Idea. Ross Lawford, left, president of Ortech, and Steve Carter, senior consultant, hold the firm's new gaseous fuel injection kit.

Date9/17/1990
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0129257F
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President Peter Dover holds beer can-lighter produced by his Junior Achievement company. Behind him are Jennifer Phillips, the firm's secretary, and David Leggat. The lighters sell for $3.50, including 70 cents profit.
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1/23/1974
Presidential smile: The new Mississauga Board of Trade president is Pat Fitzgerald. The 45-year-old Oakville resident is a consultant with a Mississauga firm.
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Business is Booming, for Laurier Life and here's a deskful of new orders for the company's president, Ernest Brooker. With no salesmen and using only direct-mail promotion techniques, Laurier Life has found a big insurance market in areas - such as older clients - long-established firms sometimes neglect.
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3/1/1972
Leading edge of a 25-yard-long wing for a giant DC-10 airliner-wings are a specially at Malton's Douglas Aircraft of Canada- is examined by the firm's treasurer, Chuck Gollihar, left, and president Dick Richmond, Douglas Canada makes major parts of airpla
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Behind counter of his flagship Diana Sweets stores, company president George Boukydis ponders the future of his $6 million a year enterprise. Stores stopped selling candy some years ago when firm's key candy maker retired after 45 years of service. An adequate replacement was not found and now, says Boukydis, it's getting tough to find pastry cooks. The supermarkets are stealing what few there are left.
Behind counter of his flagship Diana Sweets stores, company president George Boukydis ponders the future of his $6 million a year enterprise. Stores stopped selling candy some years ago when firm's key candy maker retired after 45 years of service. An adequate replacement was not found and now, says Boukydis, it's getting tough to find pastry cooks. The supermarkets are stealing what few there are left.
12/23/1977
Highland fling danced by Confederation Life Insurance Co. president J. Craig Davidson, and three great-great-great grandsons of the company's founder, was highlight of a dinner last night making the firm's 100th birthday. From left, Davidson and David Latimer, age nine, and brother Jeffrey, eight, Michael, five.
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Marshall Crossley holds his firm's plastic spool
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Milton Stark holds a connector for a computer terminal, one of his firm's products
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Sharing the profits, Employees of Beckett Packaging, a small Scarborough firm, are now members of a profit-sharing plan instituted last night by firm's president, Don Beckett.
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Clean sweep: George Moffat, president of Halo Enterprises, holds the kit his company is retailing for dog owners to help them clean up after their pets
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