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...winter day in Labrador some 30 years ago, a fur trader named Clarence Birdseye caught a fish, watched it freeze instantly in the 50° below zero temperature. Days later, he dropped the fish into a pail of water to thaw it out, was amazed to see the fish flip its tail and swim about. Birdseye decided that he had "unlocked one of nature's secrets"-and also hit upon a new way to preserve food. When he returned to civilization (i.e., his home in Gloucester, Mass.), he developed a mechanical quick-freezing process and thereby laid the foundation...
...Donald B. MacMillan. In the bottle he put a note requesting that it be returned to him. When the bottle was dropped, the schooner Bowdoin was sailing on a course west from Cape Chidley to Frobisher Bay in Baffin Land. Apparently the bottle drifted south down the coast of Labrador to the Grand Banks, where the Gulf Stream carried it to Scotland...
...Australia, Pepsi-Cola Co. was spending $1,200,000 to buy and renovate two factories, and Borden Co. was planning a new milk-processing plant. In Canada, Cleveland's M. A. Hanna Co. was developing the rich iron-ore deposits in the Ungava area of Northern Quebec and Labrador, a project that may cost $200 million. Automaker Henry J. Kaiser had landed a $2,500,000 contract with Israel to build an auto assembly plant in Haifa. In Latin America, considered an "undeveloped" area by Point Four planners, some of the biggest U.S. companies were hard at work...
Ludlow Griscom, Research Ornithologist, agreed with Randall that the Yard pigeons had little or nothing to fear-as a general group, that is. There are less than 50 duck hawks between Labrador and Massachusetts, Griscom said, and as for pigeons, "why they multiply almost to the fourth power...
With the steel mill proposal, will come a redoubled effort on the part of New England businessmen to block the St. Lawrence Seaway. If the ore from Labrador could travel down the St. Lawrence to the Great Lake ports, the geographical advantage of a New England steel mill would be materially diminished. The prospect of an important industry in New England threatened by the Seaway may well be the reason why New England senators fight the St. Lawrence project...