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Though still dwarfed by the productivity of the U.S., Canada's growing industrial muscle has expanded her world influence to an extent never before achieved by a country of 14 million inhabitants. The swelling flood of foodstuffs, metals, oil, newsprint and goods flowing from her fields, forests, mines and factories has given Canada a position of importance in the free world's councils subordinate only to the U.S. and Britain. Canada now supplies...
...Half the world's newsprint; three out of five of the world's newspaper pages are printed on Canadian paper...
London's newspapers admiringly nicknamed him "Captain Stay Put" and "Captain Enterprise," used great blocks of newsprint, day after day, on the tale of his chilling adventure. British underwriters knotted around the bulletin board in Lloyd's to follow news announcements about the captain's battle. All over the U.S., millions followed newspaper and radio accounts with breathless interest...
...ever. Canada's national product jumped from $17.8 billion in 1950 to $21 billion in 1951 (making it roughly comparable to the national product of France). Her foreign trade and cash farm income both rose an estimated 25%. Production boomed in all the country's traditional exports-newsprint, wheat, lumber, asbestos and nickel. But the most striking figure of all was the year's new capital investment of $4.6 billion ($800 million from the U.S.). That made 1951 far & away the biggest development year in Canadian history...
...years ago its plant was padlocked for alleged reselling of newsprint-though the difference between what the newspaper bought and what it used had been less than eleven ounces. Then Peron expropriated Editor Torino's personal property, and a Salta judge slapped a lien on his bank account. Torino fought back, brought out a mimeographed edition of El Intransigente, and appealed for help to the Inter-American Press Association. Peron declined to let the Association's commission into Argentina, then jailed Torino for running his clandestine paper and for "disrespect" toward the Salta judge...