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...Dominion Government took pains to say that rationing was "suspended, not abandoned." Official explanation: "Transport facilities have become acutely congested," sharply reducing overseas shipments of food and cramming Dominion warehouses. Canadians who remembered a previous glut in the meat supply-just before the North Africa invasion-felt pretty sure that second-front shipping priorities were responsible. They were also fairly sure that in due time rationing will return...
They gathered in London weeks ago, there attended lectures which deglamorized life in Canada. They learned, for example, that ranch life can be and often is woefully drab. They had a rough voyage -some of them in ships that brought German survivors of the Scharnhorst sinking. The Dominion Government paid the fares. At East Coast ports the Red Cross gave advice, emergency money, layettes for newborn babies. Now the 200 English, Scottish and Irish brides and fiancées of Canadian soldiers have scattered across the Dominion to new homes...
...Last year was the best in its history. Wall Street and Toronto brokers estimate that 1943 net will be better than the $2.63 a share earned, but not paid to shareholders, in 1942. The 12,000-mile Canadian Pacific Air Line, which blankets most of the Dominion with vital north-south routes, but is barred from the lucrative transcontinental service by the Government-owned Trans-Canada Air Lines, carried 71,000 passengers and 11.5 million Ib. of mail and cargo. Earnings from C.P.-owned telegraph and express services, hotels, grain-and ore-carrying ships on the Great Lakes, and grain...
...company stock-$50 a share. Mary Martin, 69, and weather-beaten, died in Oakville, Ont. last December. Last week her will, filed for probate, disclosed that she left $71,700 in real estate, $17,686 in mortgages, $28,138 in jewels, $320,773 in stocks, $568,768 in cash. Dominion and provincial taxes will nip off between $300,000 and $400,000. The rest goes to charities (about $80,000), to friends & relatives (about...
Meat rationing was originally imposed not to solve a Dominion shortage but to get meat for shipment to Britain (675,000,000 Ib. of Canadian pork went to Britain last year). True, said the Wartime Prices & Trade Board, there are now great surpluses, but they are due largely to a current and presumably temporary lack of ships in which to get meat overseas. Since Britain's needs are still great, Britain will get the surpluses-sooner or later. When Britain's meat needs decline, Canadian rationing will be eased or abandoned. But not until then...