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...Once in an early age of the world, there emerged a struggle between the Fish and the Amphibian for the dominion of the seas. At length after long and futile encounters. It was adjudicated that which of the two Classes could raise its voice in louder din, that would win the dominion of the seas. After many months of preparation, the great day of the contest dawned and millions upon million of the denizens of the deep, from the farthest corners of the sea, assembled upon the shore. All was soon ready. The judges took their places. The multitudes were...
Rudyard Kipling to the contrary, Britain's dominion over palm and pine by no means amounts to a monopoly. Britain's dominion over rubber plants, however, is the most extensive in the world. In the early 1920's rubber-growing Britons sought to control, through the notorious Stevenson plan, the world's rubber market. They managed to stretch rubber prices to $1.23 per lb., but when the restriction scheme collapsed the price did not stop shrinking until it hit 3? per lb. early last year. Chief reason for the plan's failure was not Secretary...
Canada has no New Deal, no NRA, no Brain Trust. Canada did, however, have a Depression. Dominion business is estimated to be at least 33% above the 1933 low. Newsprint to Canada is what automobiles are to the U. S. Dominion newsprint production for the first quarter was 41% above last year, in March was up 53% to the highest figure for the month since...
...Senate Banking & Currency Committee to be cross-examined on such a transaction by rich, radical Senator Couzens, the ensuing commotion in Washington would have been deafening. Yet 500 miles to the north on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, last week, approximately the same set of facts was revealed without any Dominion-shaking uproar. Edward Wentworth Beatty, blunt, ready-tongued head of Canadian Pacific Ry., had testified before the House of Commons Banking & Currency Committee that in order to obtain $60,000,000 in bank loans, he had been forced to ask the Prime Minister for a Government guarantee of principal & interest. Bond...
...Bennett hastily got the Parliament to extend the eleven banks' charters for one year instead of ten in re turn for his promise to call a commission to study Canada's whole banking, currency and coinage system. Head of this com mission, which shuttled all over the Dominion holding public hearings last summer and autumn, was Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron of Aberfeldy (TIME. Aug. 28, Nov. 20). For ten years Lord Macmillan had been heading British com missions including the Royal Commission on Lunacy & Mental Disorder and the Home Office Committee on Street Of fences. His most publicized...