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...Masters. Just 800 years ago, the hermit's peace was disturbed. The region at that time was under the dominion of a boyar called Stephen Ivanovich Kuchko who had a pretty wife. A neighboring prince, one Yuri Dolgoruki (meaning Long-Arm),*quarreled with the boyar because (at least according to one version) he wanted Kuchko's wife. Long-Arm seized Kuchko's domains, threw a bang-up banquet on what later became Kremlin hill, and decided that this spot-with its roads and rivers crossing in all directions -would be a good place for a town...
...began work last year when dentistry reports at the University of Toronto complained about the cost of dental supplies. The commission, in a 98-page report last week, charged that: 1) the Canadian Dental Trade Association is a monopoly; 2) it suppresses competition by controlling about 85% of the _Dominion's dental-supplies business; 3) it gouges Canada's 4,602 dentists by fixing prices (sample: a dental chair that costs $695 in the U.S. costs $957 in Canada...
...glad to do business with their Latin American neighbors. Before the war, Canada's trade with Latin America was a piddling one-half of 1% of her total foreign commerce. By 1946 it had jumped to 5.1%, amounted to $218,290,000. It is still growing. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported last week that in July Canada's exports to Latin America totaled $9,366,000, against $6.806,000 for July...
...history the Dominion Treasury had never known anything like it. Best guesses were for a $400 million surplus, double the figure forecast by experts only four months ago. The big surplus, plus the fact that 1948 will almost certainly be an election year, made another fat tax cut a sure thing...
...Ottawa Citizen: "Such a [defense] pact is obviously useful both to the United States and to the South American nations. But it would make complications for Canada. This Dominion has its own defense understanding with the British Commonwealth and the United States. No treaties are needed to assure us that in the event of an attack upon our shores the British Dominions and the United States would spring to our assistance...