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...John's, Newfoundland...
...Newfoundland also is cashing in handsomely on the $200 million building program at the U.S. bases in the province. Fort Pepperrell, near St. John's, the Harmon air base on the southwest coast, and Argentia naval base, near which Churchill and Roosevelt held their Atlantic Charter meeting in 1941, are all being expanded. Much of the money is paid out directly in wages to Newfoundland workmen. Newfoundland also benefits from the free-spending U.S. troops stationed there...
...migration of workers to Newfoundland's new industries and defense jobs is steadily bringing the island's top-heavy maritime economy into better balance. An estimated 15,000 fishermen have come in from the sea to earn an easier, better living inshore. With fewer hands to man it, the fishing industry itself is being forced to modernize. The trend is to big diesel craft instead of the old dory trawlers, and to fresh-frozen fish packing instead of the wearying process of salting cod by hand...
...minority of diehard Newfoundlanders think that the development program is all wrong-that they should not attempt such a wrenching change in the economy that has kept the island since the time of Cabot. They say that Smallwood has gone "whoring after false gods" in his campaign for industries. Joey Smallwood pays scant attention to such complaints, preferring instead to restate his faith that old Newfoundland is at last beginning to catch up with the rest of North America. "For the first time in our history," he says, "our people have a chance to be healthy, well fed, well dressed...
...Squanto, the Indian who acted as interpreter for the Pilgrim Fathers in Massachusetts, had learned some of his English in Newfoundland. *Since 1869 a song with the defiant punch line "Come near at your peril, Canadian wolf!" had become an unofficial national anthem of Newfoundland...