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...More than 90% of the free world's nickel, and an important share of the zinc, copper, aluminum and other strategic metals for the West's defense...
Even in the dead of winter, when temperatures drop 50° below zero, the search for oil continues on the Canadian prairies. Winter has actually speeded development in Northern Manitoba; a whole town is being moved overland by tractors and sleighs to the isolated site of a new nickel mine. Another town, Uranium City, is springing up in the far north of Saskatchewan near the shaft of a new uranium mine that will be the biggest in North America, and may be the richest in the world when it goes into production late this year. Meanwhile, Canada...
...College dining halls the Graduate Center, and the Business School's Cowie Hall. Transient diners and those bringing guests to meals in the College will have to pay $1.15 in coupons (include tax) for dinners, a ten cent rise over the present rate, and 85 cents for lunches, a nickel hike. Breakfasts will remain at 65 cents...
...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...
...Canadian nickel companies, already producing more than 90% of the free world's nickel, pushed ahead with expansion plans involving more than $160 million. Canada also moved to dominate world production of titanium. After putting up $40 million, Quebec Iron and Titanium Corp. (owned by Kennecott Copper and New Jersey Zinc) began mining the world's largest deposits of titanium ore in Quebec...