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...Canadians needed statistics to remind them that 1951 was a banner year. Evidence of the boom ran clear across the country, from the $9 million mining development to get more iron ore from under the Atlantic off Newfoundland, to the $27 million pulp mill built by Columbia Cellulose Co. (an affiliate of Celanese Corp. of America) near Prince Rupert in the Pacific Northwest. Other developments...
...what he calls "dealing in special situations." By such deals, Fox has gained control of U.S. Leather Co., holds a dominating, if not controlling, interest in Western Union, has his finger in a handful of other companies, including one which is about to start prospecting for oil in Newfoundland...
Sweden to the Himalayas. In the last quarter century, honors have converged on the quiet professor. From 1933 to 1948 he was president of the International Commission of Snow and Glaciers. He was asked to help set up snow surveys in many western states, and in Norway, Sweden, Canada, Newfoundland, India, Switzerland, Russia, Chile and Argentina. His most difficult job was in the Himalayas, where most of the snow lies above 17,000 ft. He made the grueling survey, which would have stopped many a younger man, in 1947, when...
...while Elizabeth slumbered in the 6-by-4-ft. bed of her private cabin-the plane began to nudge the edge of a hurricane. The pilot, Captain Oscar Philip Jones, 52, veteran of 3,000,000 air miles, shifted his course, made an unscheduled fuel stop at bleak Gander, Newfoundland. Airborne again after two hours, Elizabeth visited Jones at the controls-asking, he reported later, "some knowledgeable questions." At noon the plane let down through heavy overcast at Montreal's Dorval airport before a crowd of more than 25,000 people...
...Water Gipsy, more. Charged with mine-spotting on the Thames, Skipper Herbert also fought no-hit engagements with passing "doodlebugs" (V1 flying bombs), once scurried ashore with his crew to retrieve books (including one of his own) from his publisher's burning office. In midwar, he traveled to Newfoundland and Labrador on a parliamentary survey, made a report and duly noted that Labrador Husky dogs were "the only modified wolves in the Civil Service. Or perhaps...