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...visit to Canada was like coming back home. In 1944 we had one news bureau, in Ottawa, and Laybourne ran it. Today we have bureaus not only in Ottawa, but also in Toronto and Montreal. In addition, we now have a network of 30 part-time correspondents, from the Yukon to Newfoundland, who help insure our getting the best possible coverage of the news...
...years ago Aluminum Co. of America announced a plan to build a huge aluminum smelter at Skagway, Alaska, to be powered by harnessing the waters of the upper Yukon River. The project was to cost $400 million. But there was one hitch. The Canadian government wanted the industry to be located where the power came from: in Canada. Last week Alcoa's big plan became just a set of useless blueprints. British Columbia gave the go-ahead for developing the vast power potential of the Yukon to Canada's Ventures Ltd., big mining and metal holding company headed...
...Lindsley's plan, which will eventually cost $700 million to $1 billion, is to divert the flow of the Yukon and other rivers, build storage dams, tunnels, penstocks and generating plants that could provide 4,300,000 horsepower of electricity, about twice what can be got from the St. Lawrence Seaway power project. All these installations, as well as the metalworking plants which would use the power, would be located in Canada...
...Pioneers. In Seattle, the Alaska-Yukon Pioneers and The Ladies of the Golden North called off a scheduled meeting because of "bad weather...
...last week's shareholders' meeting, Lindsley let his aides expound most of the details of the great Yukon project. He said little except to summarize the plan with a shattering understatement: "The implications this may have on [the company's future] are far-reaching...