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...production was staggering. In the first seven months of 1946, strikes cost Canada 2,544.581 man-days (v. 128,208 in the same period of 1945). And some 21,000 workers, in addition to the 11,000 in steel, had been on strike in rubber, mines and in the copper, brass and electrical industries for from ten to 17 weeks. All these major disputes were deadlocked. They waited for a magic wage formula, or a settlement in steel to unlock them...
...huge wealth of the country is in the hands of a small bunch of millionaires who are the heads of capitalist industrial trusts-steel, oil, copper, etc. The millionaires lead luxurious lives and sweat the workers as hard as they can. A working day lasts nine to ten hours. ... At the age of 45 a worker loses his health and becomes...
Cobalt Comeback. One of the first towns to revive was Ontario's Cobalt. Its fabulous story began in 1903 when Fred La Rose, a railway worker, picked up a piece of ore in an isolated rail cut. He thought it was copper; on assay it showed a phenomenal 13,000 oz. of silver to the ton. Prospectors poured in, and made one jewelry-store strike after another. In four years, 44 mines were opened. By 1916 Cobalt mines had produced 300,000,000 oz. of silver. By 1922 the richest veins had petered out and the price...
Chile's brightest hopes lie in the half-Socialist, half-RFC Development Corporation, whose projects-a major steel mill, the Spring Hill oilfield, a copper processing plant, a new fishing industry-could in the long run raise the level of production. But the Chilean man in the street looked for action now. He would look to the new President...
Better than Vienna, G.I.s liked Salzburg with its mossy stone and patinaed copper. The Red Cross had moved into the Mirabell Casino, and G.I.s listened to symphony concerts in the Mirabell Castle's gardens.* Then, oblivious to the echoes of Mozart's minuets, they jitterbugged in the old, staid Hotel Pitter, which had suddenly acquired something known as the Sky Haven Garden...