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...Dominion of Canada there is a large corporation which last week was planning to spend some $5,000,000 on two hotels in Canada, and to build a new hotel in London, England. This corporation has also let contracts for an Atlantic liner, Empress of Britain, and a Pacific liner, Empress of Japan, the two ships to cost nearly $20,000,000. It owns some 140,000 miles of telegraph wire, distributes millions of young trees (gratis) to Canadian farmers, has settled more than 55,000 immigrants on more than 30,000,000 Canadian acres, and operates a traveling school...
...earnings. U. S. railroads traditionally sell at around ten times earnings, but in Canada there is no Interstate Commerce Commission and no recapture clause to limit a road's earnings on its investment. In addition to its extra-railroad activities, Canadian Pacific has asked the Dominion Parliament for authority to construct 1,200 miles of branch lines and expects to build some 465 miles during the present year. Expansion plans centre around the Saskatchewan district and may result in a "war" with Canadian National which has considered the Saskatchewan territory as particularly its own. Should hostilities result, the Canadian...
...discussing at Paris his recent audience with the Holy Father, Cardinal Dubois said: "He mentioned his joy in being able henceforth to travel about freely. Sooner or later the Pope, who claims world-wide spiritual dominion, will visit every part of the globe, America not excepted, of course. The imagination is staggered when one comes to think of what will happen when a Pope sets foot in New York. I do not say that the present Pontiff will attempt it, although, personally, I am sure, he is willing enough. But the day will come...
Every soldier knows the strategic reasons why the Empire "must" keep Palestine, but the mission of the Seventh Dominion League will be to acquaint civilians with the business reasons. The best of these may be summed up in an arresting name - Pinchas Rutenberg...
...enterprises dependent upon electric power. By the time Great Britain's mandate over Palestine expires, it is quite possible that Pinchas Rutenberg will have developed a vertical and horizontal trust so vast that the only way of adequately protecting the capital involved will be to create the Seventh Dominion. Certainly the degraded and impoverished natives of Palestine, who would be raised up to "Rutenberg prosperity" during such a process, might be expected to identify the hand of Pinchas Rutenberg with that of Providence...