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...between the Islands this month. The Philippine Airlines has been reorganized, with the help of 560,000 pesos from Transcontinental & Western Air Inc., in exchange for a 28% interest in the company. But it is still awaiting planes to resume flying. Procter & Gamble's Philippine Manufacturing Co. (soaps, lard, coconut products) does not expect to get into production until next spring. Most industrial plants were destroyed, along with the Islands' chief industrial cities, Manila, Cebu and Iloilo. Salvage work on plants which might be restored easily was hamstrung by the inflation which had shot wages and materials...
Every bit of the $77,000,000, and probably more, will be spent in Canada for Canadian products. Orders already placed by UNRRA total $11,259,250-for such items as 25,000,000 lbs. of lard, 20,000 tons of farm machinery, 20,000,000 Ibs. of canned fish, $6,000,000 worth of woolen garments. Under negotiation are orders for wheat, meat, trucks, soap...
...began. He took a beating when he tried to make trouble for Dominion Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King by calling an election on the issue of provincial rights in wartime. This time he shrewdly capitalized on Quebec's dislike of war, conscription, beat Liberal Premier Adélard Godbout...
...truth in them to hurt. Quebec City's L'Action Catholique, the organ of powerful Cardinal J. M. Rodrigue Villeneuve, called Bouchard a "vile man" and a traitor to his people. The Cardinal himself said: "I must publicly disapprove. . . ." The Liberal Party's Premier Adélard Godbout, from whose Cabinet Bouchard had gone to the Senate, was sorely embarrassed. In Ottawa, a French Canadian member of Mackenzie King's Liberal Government tried to minimize the whole affair. Said able, cool Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Minister of Justice: ". . . a group of from one-tenth...
Plenty for All-Now. There was other news last week to make citizens suppose that the food shortage was over, and the long-predicted "famine" a false alarm. Butter stocks were over 100 million lb., as against a normal spring supply of 40 million lb. Lard stocks were the biggest ever. Total meat production in March was 27% greater than a year ago. There were hints that point values for lamb and mutton, butter, pork products, and some beef cuts would be reduced on May 1 Manhattan's bustling fish market was swamped one day by the arrival...