Freight Revenues Of Railways Damaged By Truck Competition
The Canadian railways lose about 38 million dollars in annual freight revenues to highway trucks, with net losses around 34 million. W. Fairweather of the Canadian National Railways cites highway subsidies and low trucking costs as eroding rail profits and urges provincial returns from road transport. He notes winter costs on a Maritime branch and compares maritime highway costs to revenues from licenses and taxes in 1934.
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Canadian Railways
Maritime Board of Trade
Charlottetown
W. Fairweather
Bureau of Economics
Canadian National Railways
Dreath
Railways
Canadian National
Maritimes
Fairweather
Maritime Provinces
Eskimos Embrace Reindeer Herd Across Arctic Lands
Government reindeer stations near Aklavik survey a 3800 head herd watched by Nesbitt as a potential Arctic lifeline. Eskimo communities eagerly train herdsmen, seeing meat clothing and food security, while Nesbitt notes their ski expertise could aid Canada’s future Olympic team.
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Canada
Mackenzie River
Harvey W. Nesbitt
Aklavik
Ottawa
Arctic
Nesbitt
Canada Drops Indian Corn Tariff Under Drought Relief
Canada will import Indian corn duty free from treaty countries through year end due to depleted supplies from drought and other causes. Revenue minister Hona L. Niley announced the change, eliminating the 10 cent intermediate tariff and raising or adjusting previous rates under the French treaty and US trade pact. The general tariff remains 25 cents per bushel.
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Canada
Hona L. Niley
United States
Potash From Dead Sea Sparks Regional Development
The Dead Sea, 1300 feet below sea level, is revived as a potash and bromine source. A 30,000 ton yearly plant and surrounding British-backed resorts expand activity with 430 workers per shift monitoring brine to carnallite refining. The sea, 25 percent salts, supports little life and lends dramatic skylines from its blue white evaporation clouds.
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Dead Sea
Mediterranean
Jordan
Cen
Sodom
Gomorrah
David
Herod
Marianne
Jerusalem
B.C
Great Britain
Empire
Europe
Saskatchewan forms health group to study rheumatic disease
The League Against Rheumatism Saskatchewan branch formed by Saskatchewan Medical Association action in Saskatoon. Dr Duncan Croll leads a data collecting committee including Dr Baltzan, Harvie, Kirkby, and McCulloch to build national statistics for the Canadian Society for the Study and Control of Rheumatic Disease aligned with the International League Against Rheumatism based in Amsterdam.
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Saskatchewan
Canadian Society For the Study
Saskatoon
Saskatchewan Medical Association
Duncan Croll
National Organization
B. M. Baltxan
W. A. Harvie
Regina
R. W. Kirkby
Prince Albert
F. D. McCulloch
Moose Jaw
International League Against
Amsterdam
Glass Office Building Erected On Fifth Avenue
Corning Glass Works announced plans for a five storey glass office building on Fifth Avenue at 56th Street New York. The structure will be windowless above the ground floor with five show windows and will let occupants receive 78 percent of outdoor light in a walled interior.
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Fifth Avenue
Corning Glass Works
56Th Street
New York
Skywriter Mistake Stuns Montreal Crowd
Al Stinis slipped during a skywriting display in Montreal as spectators watched in wonder. A downtown onlooker criticized the stunt saying he spotted an error, noting an upper case T was dotted.
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al Stinis
Clever Love Bird of Sydney Claims World Vein of Cleverness
A Sydney barber, B. Perkins, proclaims a pet love bird as the cleverest in the world. The three inch bird can pull a match from a box and present it while saying OK Chief. It sleeps in a shaving mug and warms itself on tea steam in cold weather. Travel in England last year averaged 435 journeys per person across rail, bus, and streetcar.
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B. Perkins
Sydney
Australia
England
Many Uses Of Soy Beans In Increasing Interest In This Legume
An Associated Press report outlines rising interest in soybeans as a versatile crop. It details world production, Canadian cultivation prospects, bean composition, and numerous uses from oil and paints to plastics, soaps, foods, and medical applications.
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Manchuria
Japan
United States
Division of Chemistry
Central Experimental Farm
Realism In Films Tours Hollywood Studio Sets
A traveler in Hollywood reports on a tour of M G M studios showing massive detailed sets including a submarine, eighteenth century Paris blocks, a battleship in an artificial pond, a night club, and a convincing mountain for Romeo and Juliet. He notes two kitchen tables with dirt and straw used in The Good Earth to depict rice fields before and after the plague.
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Hollywood
M-G-M
Paris
China
The
New Yorker
Word Banished in Italy for Sanctioned Origin
In Rome the word tied to a famous earl and a sanctionist country is banished from Italian. It will now be called pampieni meaning filled bread. Brazil's 1936 37 coffee crop will fill over 21 000 000 bags.
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Italy
Rome
Brazil
Dish Towel Dogs Pattern For Weekly Gift Drive
Frisky dish towel dogs are featured in pattern 5652 including seven motifs one for each day of the week. The transfer pattern measures 4 445 x74 inches with stitch outlines, color suggestions, and material needs. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 E Winnipeg McDermot Ave for the pattern.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Winnipeg
McDermot Ave
Bees Attack Horse in Finnish Village Dies from Stings
In Naponkoski village central Finland a horse trampled a hive and was killed by furious bees. A peasant who tried to help was also stung and hospitalized in precarious condition.
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Naponkoski
Finland
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