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| | William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron 1879-1964, British financier, statesman, and newspaper owner, b. |
 | | The son of a Scottish Presbyterian clergyman, he grew up near Beaverbrook, N.B. He made a fortune in business and was probably a millionaire when he went to England in 1910. |
 | | In World War II, Lord Beaverbrook was prominent in Winston Churchill's coalition government as minister of aircraft production (1940-41), minister of supply (1941-42), minister of war production (Feb., 1942), special envoy to the United States on supplies (1942), and lord privy seal (1943-45). |
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