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...only big stand of disease-free birch left in Canada. Newfoundland's unharnessed streams can eventually yield an estimated 8,000,000 h.p. of electric energy, nearly one-third the total developed in the U.S. The rocky land is rich in iron; it has proved deposits of lead, zinc and copper, and encouraging indications of nickel and oil. Even Newfoundland's location is valuable. The most easterly point of North America, only 1,600 miles from Ireland, it is a vital outpost of air travel and Western Hemisphere defense...
Fifty years ago, says the report, the U.S. produced 15% more raw materials than it consumed; now it produces 9% less than it needs. Once a big exporter of copper, lead and zinc, it is now the largest importer of those metals. Assuming the traditional 3% annual growth in the economy-and a population rise to 193 million-the nation's raw-materials output by 1975 will fall 20% short of filling estimated needs...
...uses 2½ times more bituminous coal, four times more zinc, 26 times more natural gas, and 30 times more crude oil than it did in 1900. "There is scarcely a metal or a mineral fuel," says the report, "[whose use] since the outbreak of the first World War did not exceed the total used throughout the world in all the centuries preceding." The result is that though the U.S. has less than 10% of the free world's population and land area, it consumes close to half the free world's output of materials. Every man, woman...
...works equally well with other low-grade ores such as nickel, copper and manganese (but not as yet with iron ores). Moreover, by reducing the amount formerly lost in slag, he says it can increase the pure metal recovered from scrap as much as 15% for copper, 70% for zinc. He predicted it could eventually cut the production costs of cobalt up to 80%, copper and nickel as much...
...frozen trout and whitefish from Great Slave Lake are driven , daily on their way to Chicago and New York, as part of a $2,500,000 fishing industry. Gold at Dawson and Yellowknife, uranium at Port Radium, base metals at Mayo have all built up thriving settlements. Great lead-zinc-silver deposits, lately found at Pine Point, less than 60 miles from the Hay River road, may bring a new smelter city of 15,000 to the N.W.T. within a decade...