Word: poorest
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...Poorest Boom." The new need is electricity to power the province's growth. Since 1946, British Columbia Electric Co. has quadrupled its sales of electricity; but even so, the populous lower mainland and Vancouver Island face the prospect of power shortages by 1962, unless some new developments are opened. One mighty project calls for tapping the swift-running Eraser River, which alone could provide enough power to meet British Columbia's needs for years to come. A second idea is to develop the Columbia River, dammed at nine points in the U.S. and nowhere in Canada. The idea...
Like the rest of Canada, B.C. had its share of recession this year. Capital spending for major pipelines, newsprint mills and hydroelectric projects tapered off last year; markets softened for lead, zinc and aluminum. Yet, typically, British Columbians spoke of the recession as "the poorest boom in years." The province's salmon fishermen had their best season in decades, and farmers, loggers and production-line workers were making-and spending-enough to keep income and retail sales at record levels...
Spain is still a dictatorship, but not so severely as it once was. It is more prosperous than it used to be-though still the poorest nation in Western Europe, outside its next-door neighbor Portugal, where a fellow dictator, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, is Franco's only senior in office...
Chrysler also settled with the U.A.W. along the Ford pattern after thousands of workers struck. Both sides did some giving on key points. Chrysler, traditionally plagued by the industry's poorest labor relations, agreed to grant greater preference to high-seniority workers when rehiring. In return, the U.A.W. accepted a cutback in company-paid union stewards and a tougher no-strike clause to prevent the wildcat walkouts that have hit Chrysler hard for the past three years...
...spending more money in 1958 than ever before, but not on automobiles made in the U.S.A. The U.S.A. has got to a point where it makes the poorest cars in the world...