Word: canada
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Presumably more bootleggers than good-will crossed the border between the U. S. and Canada last week. Reason: on one side were ranked the newspaper publishers of the U. S. who are accustomed to purchase their newsprint (newspaper paper) almost entirely from Canadian manufacturers at wholesale prices averaging about $55 per ton. On the other side were the Canadian newsprint manufacturers, who desired to raise the price to $60. Louis Alexandre Taschereau, the crisp Premier of Quebec, had declared on his own behalf and for Premier George Howard Ferguson of Ontario:*". . . The price of $55 is not a fair return...
...following figures, compiled by the National Student Federation, indicate the trend of student migrations: Canada 1,173. China 1,109. Japan 814. Philippines 804. Russia 504. England 369. Germany 360. Mexico 271. Porto Rico 250. India 208. Italy 203. Hawatt...
...Harvard College Observatory is to be the host of the forty-third meeting of the American Astronomical Society, which is to last from Monday, December 30 to Thursday, January 2. About 100 out-of-town visitors are expected, including astronomers from all parts of the United States and Canada. The purpose of the meeting is to make known the latest discoveries, to expose the newest theories to criticism, and to exchange ideas on the cosmic riddles. Papers on these subjects are to be discussed in several sessions throughout the period...
...Last year 279,678 immigrant and 199,649 nonimmigrant (visiting) aliens were admitted to the U. S. Europe furnished 158,598 permanent immigrants, New World countries 116,177. Asia 3,758. Chief sources were Canada (64,440), Germany (46,751), Mexico (40,154), Great Britain...
...Parker Dresser Cramer, who twice vainly tried to fly from Illinois over Canada, Greenland and Iceland to Europe (TIME, July 15) was with Explorer Wilkins and Flyer S. Alward Cheesman on Deception Island last week, preparing to attempt a South Pole flight. *Rendered possible by 80 pages of intricate computations and figures of George Washington Littlehales, 69, government hydrographic engineer, comfortably located in Washington. The Littlehales tables are to the avigator what Bowditch's tables are to the navigator. They aided Commander Byrd's North Polar flight...