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Manitoba had long known there was a solution: diversification of the province's industries. In 1912 provincial boundaries were redrawn and Manitoba, which had been known as the "Postage Stamp Province," unrolled 500 miles northward to Hudson Bay. Adventurers and prospectors had already discovered copper and gold, trapped beaver, muskrat and wild mink...
Oldtime traders found it hard to believe that Hunt had sold out. In 20 years of eager-beaver business, first as vice consul, then as U.S. shipping board agent, finally as head of Hunt & Co., Bill Hunt had put his monogram on a sizable hunk of the Celestial Kingdom. Through Hunt & Co. he had exclusive distribution rights to 250 key products manufactured by 70-odd U.S. firms, had sold motors, electric trolleys, machine tools, steel buildings with a careful hand. Tirelessly the Hunt fingers had probed every phase of Chinese commercial life, often turned up in a competitor...
...other clerks will board the sturdy H.B.C. supply ship Nascopie at Montreal, which will arrive at treeless Arctic Bay in September, bringing coal and food for the post, fresh fruit, gasoline, medical and dental supplies, 20 new books for the library, the latest copies of the company magazines, the Beaver and Moccasin Telegraph...
...Beaver-busy Belgians, their economic house in order, took time out this week to vote. In their first national Chamber of Deputies election in seven years, they swung toward the right...
...centuries the wind, sweeping down over vast, unknown Ungava* in northern Quebec, had covered nature's riches with a deep mantle of snow. Hungry caribou foraged for lichen. A few thousand Eskimos and Indians trapped beaver, hunted seals. The white man had crossed Ungava on foot only three times, had flown in briefly to prospect for minerals-and had not even scratched Ungava's bountiful surface...