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...Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada, W. L. Mackenzie King. Under his firm guidance Canada has risen to take her place among the great nations of the world...
...fire blotted them from sight. Moments later some of the same figures could be seen again, burned to blackened skeletons. The heat melted stonework to limy slag. In all, the destruction lasted just 16 minutes. Firemen counted 41 dead, none positively identifiable, in the worst fire disaster in Dominion history. Two days later, when New Zealand put out flags to celebrate the royal wedding, Christchurch flags flew at halfmast...
...news had come too fast for quick digestion. Not until Canadians had a chance to study last week's historic pronouncements did they realize that their government had boldly set the Dominion's economy on a new course. The trip would be risky, the destination uncertain...
...cure? Finance Minister Abbott had the beginnings of one. Under a new order-in-council, which will be shored up and clarified at the coming session of Canada's Parliament, the government is going to try to make a dream come true. The dream: a more highly industrialized Dominion that will make many of the goods now bought abroad, chiefly from...
Direction. To expand this industrial economy, the government granted sweeping powers to Reconstruction Minister Clarence Decatur Howe, a 61-year-old, U.S.-born engineer who bossed Dominion industry during...