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...Finance Minister Douglas Abbott, just back from a sobering view of conditions in Europe, warned that the Dominion's cost of living index, now at 136.6, might well go to 145 by next spring...
Canadians must get along with fewer U.S. automobiles, washing machines, radios, refrigerators and Florida vacations. To bring its dollar trade into balance, the Dominion Government is going to cut imports from the U.S., even though it means lowering the Canadian standard of living. In seven months (January-July) Canada bought $573 million more from the U.S. than she sold there. At that rate the deficit would be almost $1 billion by year...
...Toronto's Financial Post, Sports Scribe Ronald Williams called them "shamateurs." The Canadian Rugby Union insisted they were amateurs. The Dominion's Revenue Department, which defines an amateur as a player "not signed to a professional contract," accepted the C.R.U.'s ruling. Result: big-time rugby teams will not have to pay the 20% federal amusement...
Said Leo Dolan, boss of the Dominion's Travel Bureau, last week: An "abnormal season. . . . We ought to hit . ". . $230 to $240 million this year." That was less than the $300 million expected by some Canadians earlier this year (TIME, Aug. 4), but it would still easily top the peak of $214 million spent by 21,282,000 visitors from...
...Latin America in general were competitors in the world market in 1939. When the war cut off traditional European customers, they found that they could do business with each other. Latin America had vegetable oils, coffee, bananas, cotton, sugar and many another tropical product that Canada wanted. The Dominion, in return, needed markets for newsprint, machinery', wheat and whiskey...