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...vacuous is vast Canada that the 90,000 assorted farmers, fox-breeders, lobster folk, oystermen and smugglers who have ample room on the 2,184 square miles of Prince Edward Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence can boast that they are the Dominion's most densely populated province. Last week their ballots drove the final provincial nail into the political coffin of Canada's rich & prosperous Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett who is now somewhat less of a national hero than Herbert Hoover...
...Taschereau, grand old French-Canadian boss. In June 1932 the Conservatives did not feel too badly when they failed to oust the Progressive Liberal Government of farmer-radical Manitoba, but since then the Conservative Generalissimo at Ottawa has known nothing but rout after sickening rout. His Liberal rival, onetime Dominion Premier William Lyon...
...Most famed white dwarf, of which only three have definitely been spotted, is the companion of Sirius whose density is approximately half a ton to the cubic inch. *World telescope ranking: Observatory Diameter of Reflector Mt. Wilson........ 100 in. Dunlap (Toronto).....................................74 in. Dominion ...........................................72 in. Perkins (Delaware, Ohio).......................... 69 in. Harvard .....................................................61 in. Argentine National (Cordoba).........................60 in. Harvard (South Africa) ....................................60 in. Berlin-Babelsburg ........................................48½in. Melbourne..................................................... 48 in. †One light-year=approximately six trillion miles. Traveling 186,000 miles per second, light takes only eight minutes to reach Earth from...
Last week, therefore, the Dominion was prepared to tackle its wheat problem from a different angle. Passed by both houses of Parliament and approved by Governor-General the Earl of Bessborough was a bill whose provisions represented a complete policy somersault. The measure abolishes the present pool, substituting for it a three-man wheat board appointed by the Prime Minister. The Board is not to continue the present wheat price-peg (80¢) but has the power to fix a minimum price at which it will buy wheat from Dominion farmers. Since the minimum price may often be less than...
Prime result of Canada's new policy will be to put the Dominion on a sounder competitive basis with Argentina, Australia, Russia and the Balkans in supplying the world wheat market. Its effect on the U. S., where the tariff is 42¢ a bu., will be negligible, unless the U. S. has enough surplus to go after the world market...