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...preview of his radio talk tonight at 6:45, Charles S. Brooks, professor of Meteorology and director of the Blue Hill Observatory, described the extent of the current storm. It stretches from northern Maine and Labrador south to Cape Hatteras and North Carolina, and west as far as Chicago...
...Tokyo and contributed $5,000 to help complete it before flying on to Korea for his fifth consecutive Christmas with the troops. Dr. Blake, traveling in the personal plane of Lieut. General Glenn O. Barcus of the Northeast Air Command, with the general himself at the controls, stopped at Labrador and Greenland en route to Thule (700 miles from the North Pole) to deliver Christmas Day sermons...
...facilities, v. $300 a ton for entirely new capacity. The company is equally well fixed for raw materials. It has contracted for one-quarter of the rich ore that is already trickling in (and will pour in via the St. Lawrence Seaway by 1959) from the vast Labrador-Quebec fields, owns ore mines in four U.S. states and Liberia, operates its own coal mines and limestone quarries...
...provide jobs for some 270 residents of the industry-poor region. Trade and Commerce Minister C. D. Howe, in a speech at the ceremony, spotlighted another point of significance for Canada's fast-growing iron mining industry: "With the opening of Steep Rock in northwestern Ontario, the Quebec-Labrador mines, and this mine...
Vanishing Breeds. When the first count was run on Christmas Day in 1900, birds were getting scarcer in the U.S. The great auk and Labrador duck were gone; the umbrageous flocks of passenger pigeons were reduced to a pathetic aviary remnant; the trumpeter swan seemed likely to be silenced forever. Then came bird-protection laws and treaties. Although these are still not fully enforced, nearly all the once-threatened birds have come back, some in greater numbers than ever before. Birders, as bird watchers call themselves, have multiplied with the birds. Only a handful of the watchers are professional ornithologists...