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Best Customer. Despite such wealth, Canada today is a sort of well-heeled pauper. Reason: the world's dollar crisis. As the U.S.'s best customer, the Dominion needs a whopping supply of U.S. dollars to keep her economy going. Traditionally, she earned some of the dollars by selling in the U.S. and the balance by selling such surpluses as grain and timber to Britain and the rest of the world. Because of the dollar shortage, Britain and many another customer have slashed their purchases in Canada, and have thus ripped apart the historic pattern of Canadian trade. This week...
...himself never uses the term "French Canadian"; his phrase is "French-speaking Canadians." But wise Politician St. Laurent knows that French-speaking Canada can not be brushed off with symbols and phrases. He has been methodically building up French Canadian representation in the civil service, where it had fallen well below the 2-to-1 ratio of Canada's English-French population...
Doctors have welcomed the change-or Clark and Cumley have proved themselves topnotch promoters. Circulation has already jumped to 61,000 in 13 states which are following Texas' lead. Public funds from state health departments, as well as Cancer Society donations, will be used still more widely if the sponsors reach their goal of 100,000 circulation by year...
...again on the increase. During the first half of this year, asset value dropped from $27.18 a share to $26.27, mostly because Atlas was selling off department-store and liquor shares. But, having bought into mining properties, Atlas' asset value was up again last week to $28.10, well above its selling price of $22.63 on the big board...
...Beta Gauge, which measures the thickness of a material by spraying it with beta particles (electrons) from a radioactive isotope and gauging their penetration, was first installed last May in Continental Paper Co.'s plant at Ridgefield Park, N.J. It worked so uncannily well that rubber, paper mills and other industries all began clamoring for it. To meet the demand, Tracerlab has tripled its space by moving into a nearby six-story building paid for out of $1,196,000 of new capital raised last spring with a stock issue. It expects to step up gauge production from...