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- Crawford Gordon, business executive, public servant (b at Winnipeg 26 Dec 1914; d at New York City, NY 26 Jan 1967). Educated at private schools and McGill, Gordon worked in the Department of Munitions and Supply during WWII. At the end of the war he became C.D. HOWE 's director of industrial reconversion.
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Crawford Gordon Jr. (26 December 1914 – 26 January 1967) was a leader of wartime defence production in Canada under Minister of Munitions and Supply C.D. Howe during the Second World War.
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After a long battle with alcoholism, Crawford Gordon died on 26 January 1967 of liver failure. His friends would say that he drank himself to his death. As the 1979 documentary, “There never was an Arrow” points out, “Gordon could handle success, but not failure.”
Dec 19, 2012 · Hollywood should take a moment to regret the retirement this week of Gordon Crawford of Capital Research and Management, one of the wisest, most influential and most successful investors in...
Then there was the often-contentious relationship between conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, and Avro Canada president Crawford Gordon, Jr.
Jun 2, 2008 · Crawford Gordon. Crawford Gordon, business executive, public servant (b at Winnipeg 26 Dec 1914; d at New York City, NY 26 Jan 1967). Educated at private schools and McGill, Gordon worked in the Department of Munitions and Supply during WWII. At the end of the war he became C.D.
Dec 21, 2012 · Now Crawford, who on Friday at age 65 will wrap up a four-decade career at the giant Los Angeles investment firm Capital Group, is focusing his heft and attention on his second act: fixing...
In this engaging and revealing biography of Crawford Gordon, the charismatic and mercurial dynamo at the helm of the Avro Arrow project in the 1950s, Greig Stewart chronicles the life and demise of the infamous plane that has taken on mythic proportions.
