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...plane parts manufacturer. But all over the world, U.S. airmen know Gilfillan's gadget-the G.C.A. (ground-controlled approach) equipment for blind landings. At Berlin's Tempelhof Airdrome, two of Gilfillan's G.C.A. units are bringing in Allied transports through all kinds of weather. At Gander, Newfoundland, G.C.A. is guiding in U.S. Air Force and commercial planes. At New York's La Guardia Field, Chicago's Municipal Airport, and Washington's National Airport, G.C.A. approaches are routine in thick weather...
...principal mine-operating subsidiary of Dominion Steel & Coal Corp. Ltd. ("Dosco"), which controls 90% of Nova Scotia's coal pro duction, besides the steel plant at Sydney, where iron ore from Newfoundland is reduced...
...Canada's armed services and General Andrew G. L. McNaughton, co-chairman of the Joint Defense Board set up under the Ogdensburg agreement. Top items for discussion: plans for Canada's industrial mobilization, the standardization of U.S. and Canadian arms, what to do about U.S. bases in Newfoundland when the "Oldest Colony" becomes the newest province. No hard & fast detailed decisions were made; the idea of the meeting was to keep defense cooperation firmly based on close, human relationships...
Even cagey old opportunist Mayor Camillien Houde of Montreal jumped on the Duplessis bandwagon, just in time. He kissed and made up with his archenemy, then set out to top Duplessis in headline catching. Houde howled that the inclusion of. Newfoundland as the Dominion's tenth province was a foul plot to bring in 350,000 British votes to drown out French Canada, that Prime Minister King started World War II by "provoking Hitler," that Louis St. Laurent was a discredited leader of the French Canadians and should resign. When it was all over, jubilant Union Nationale supporters paraded...
...Liberal M.P.s; all Liberal candidates defeated in the last federal election; the Liberal Senators; delegates representing the Liberal parties in the provincial legislatures; the Liberal Women's Federation; the Liberal clubs in Canadian universities-and possibly a delegation from Canada's tenth province-to-be, Newfoundland, which last week voted to become part of Canada...