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Finance Minister Walter Harris, who devised the measure five months ago, remained its main supporter. In a 35-minute speech he hailed the tax as a great boon to Canadian culture, contending that Canadian magazines are in desperate economic shape and that a tax on competing U.S. publications is necessary to save them from "disappearance...
...weathermen, radar has been the biggest boon their science has known since the barometer. Without radar, weather forecasters had to depend on reports from observation stations, which are always too few, and often slow to arrive. With radar, they can actually watch the approach of storm clouds. Many a weather or storm disaster might have been averted or minimized if proper radars had been on the job to flash a timely warning...
...great boons of modern medicine, the U.S. today has more and older old folks than any previous culture in history. In 1900 only 4.1% of the population were 65 or over; now these "senior citizens" account for 8.4%, and by 1980 they will make up 10% to 15% in a nation of about 225 million. But the boon has brought with it some perplexing problems-medical, social, economic. In Ann Arbor last week at the University of Michigan's annual Conference on Aging, the only such regular meeting in the country, 700 experts from the medical and social sciences...
...lives up to its early promise, the Crusader will be as big a boon to Chance Vought as to the Navy. Splitting off from parent United Aircraft Corp. two years ago, Chance Vought and President Frederick 0. Detweiler, 44, have been through a difficult first solo. The last of C. V.'s famed prop-driven F4U Corsairs came off the line in 1953; bugs and engine trouble held back the Corsair's successor, the big twin-jet F7U Cutlass fighter, with production scheduled to end in late 1955. Though C. V. was also producing the Navy Regulus guided...
This fall, the boon was on! Eliot House announced the formation of its Drama Group to produce plays meeting the demand for an "intimate theatre;" Adams House went beyond the traditional scope of House productions to present Alcestis in Sanders Theatre and its Music Society gave Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein's opera The Mother of Us All. The Eliot group gave three productions this year, The Tempest, Richard II, and The Merchant of Venice, all of which were very favorably received...