Giant civilian airlift fuels Labrador iron venture
United States air force support and Fairchild C-119 flights enable Canadian Iron Ore Company mining near Knob Lake Labrador. About 600 workers build a 360 mile railroad from Seven Islands to the ore site as a new city rises for 3,000 residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Warner, JR
CPC
Hagerstown
Saguenay
Knob Lake
Labrador
United States Air Force
Fairchild
U.S. State Department
Iron Ore Company of
Canada
Seven Islands
Que
Seven Isles
Berlin
United States
Niagara
Dizzy Divorces of 1951 From Across the Globe
A humorous roundup of 1951 divorce tales cites cases from Sydney Detroit Brazil Indiana Pittsburgh Los Angeles Madison Jersey City Paris and Miami. Each couple ends marriage over quirky quarrels, financial squabbles, or personal clashes, with details of spats satire and satire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley H. Langdon
Sydney
Australia
Joseph L. DeLemere
Detroit
Brazil
Ind
Geneva Mae Pollom
Anne Swick
Pittsburgh
Paul Joanethis
Miami
Fla
Los Angeles
Jane Neally
Thomas Anderson
St. Louis
John
Betty Dimick
Sarah Daly
Jersey City
Paris
France
M. Claude
Try and Stop Me by Bennett Cerf in London
An American lecturer addressed a large London audience where laughter failed at a top joke. He quipped that they would laugh at it next summer. The chairman countered that they laughed last summer. A teacher asked a pupil for a punny answer about tanning hides and a student replied with a joke about a teacher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennett Cerf
London
Canadian farmers face buoyant markets despite West crop setback
The Monthly Review of The Bank of Nova Scotia notes a strong year for Canadian farming as 1951 ends. Domestic demand remains robust, U S imports surge, and overseas demand for milling wheat stays high. Cash farm income could exceed last year by about 20 percent, aided by high animal-product prices and Western grain payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Bank
Nova Scotia
U.S
United States
Canada
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Health-Insurance, Pensions Drive Canada 1951 Reforms
The spring session authorized 50-50 cost sharing with provinces for 40 monthly pensions to needy Canadians aged 65 to 70, starting January in agreement provinces. A fall measure extended 40 monthly pensions to all Canadians 70 plus, 20 years in Canada, funded by a 2-2-2 tax mix. About 145,000 and 700,000 eligibility respectively. The act earmarked one fifth of the sales tax for pensions. Other reforms included national health-insurance study, CBC funding, university aid, and amendments to the criminal code and citizenship act. A defence department and Colombo plan aid were approved, with seaway and rail rate reforms advancing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Martin
St. Lawrence Seaway
CBC
Eisenhower
Europe
Korea
United States
Royal Commission On Transportation
Massey Commission On Arts and Science
Just Plain Farming Passes Says Louis Bromfield
Louis Bromfield told the Garden Forum in Toledo that farming has changed and economic pressure forces between 150 000 and 200 000 unscientific farmers out of business each year. He said the farmer of the future must be part capitalist and part scientist and part specialist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledoo
Louis Bromfield
Garden Forum
Bromfield
Ohio
Napoleon's Elba Expedition Weak Force
The 1815 return of Napoleon from Elba began with a small force of about 1,000 men and four guns. Owls fly quietly due to softly edged wings, a noted comparison in the passage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleon
Elba
France
Europe
Hens Prefer Water To Snow In Winter Study
J Le Tessier of the Dominion Experimental Station Kapuskasing reports on two winter tests with 150 hens each year showing water fed birds produced 16.2 percent more eggs while consuming 10.6 percent less feed than snow fed birds. He recommends keeping water available to hens despite freezing challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. le Tessier
Dominion Experimental Station
Kapuskasing
Mr. Tessier
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Hebe
Bess
Plum
D Kleiner
Richa
Elaine L. House
House
Mrs. House
Laughlin Hayes
Gladys Hayes
Ethel Sue Kaye
Ethel
South
Southeast Asia
M. Harrison-Gray
Sua
Ecmns Fsse
East
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