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What Steep Rock will ultimately mean to Canada, no one yet can say. Some Canadians have already talked optimistically of "a great metropolis in the bush of Atikokan, where great smelters will belch smoke. . . ." This much is sure: the Dominion, hitherto dependent on the U.S., now has a large iron ore supply of its own. This does not mean Canada will now supply fully the furnaces of its own young but lusty and growing steel industry. But it does mean that Canada will become, for the first time, an iron-ore exporter. And no longer will Canada have to import...
...Conscription of secondary-school students and graduates, hitherto draft-exempt, to form student brigades...
...headquarters in the city's largest carbarn (without audible protest from the company). Up on a toolbox jumped burly, bull-voiced James Henry McMenamin, 43, to take command. He shouted: "It's white against black!" He well knew that the company's 600 Negro employes had hitherto worked peacefully (in menial jobs) beside other workers. But now, he pointed out, as motormen, they could sit on the same benches as whites. Cried McMenamin: "The colored people have bedbugs...
What Juan Trippe proposed was not only a revolution in speed and comfort in airline travel, but also a revolution in airline thinking. Hitherto airlines have cautiously added planes only when forced into it by increasing business. Trippe plans to get the equipment first and then drum up the business. Eventually he expects to shave passenger fares to 3½? a mile (current average: 8¾?) and thus tap the probably enormous "See South America in Two Weeks" vacation market. He expects to drop average cargo rates to 25.4? per ton mile (current rate...
...liberals and of China's true friends abroad. Chungking's strict censorship seemed to be relaxing. Allied correspondents, on a trip to the long forbidden Communist zone, were allowed to report warmly on the Communist village setup, land reforms, guerrilla tactics against the Japs. In Nationalist China, hitherto quiescent democratic groups issued a manifesto: "The formation of a democratic system should not be postponed any longer. We warn our fellow countrymen that if democracy is not realized in wartime, what we gain after the war will not be democracy but the disruption and annihilation of the nation, with...