Word: canada
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Slim, aristocratic Louis Alexandré Taschereau, Premier of Quebec, and bluff, jovial George Howard Ferguson, Premier of Ontario, met in Montreal last week to talk about the price of paper. For Canada the occasion was vital. Of all Canadian industries, largest and most important is the manufacture of cheap, impermanent newsprint for U. S. dailies...
...provincial governments. Greatest Canadian papermaker is the U. S.-owned International Paper & Power Co. This gargantuan corporation controls under long-term leases, or owns outright, forest land equal in area to New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts. Despite the enormous consumption of newsprint in the U. S. and Canada, paper production is still greater. Prices are low. For the past year the I. P. & P. and its smaller competitors have been paying provincial governments toll for paper made from timber grown on Crown land, sold at a wholesale tonnage price...
...motored flying boat, the DO-X (TIME, Nov. 25), George King, "lone wolf of Alaska," tuned the enthusiasm to higher pitch last week by proposing a flight, in a Junkers plane similar to the Atlantic flying Bremen (TIME, April 23, 1928), from Dessau, Germany, across Siberia, Alaska, Canada, to New York...
...hoped that the American Bar Association will hold some of its sessions at the Harvard Law School in the fall, bringing with it, as guests of the Commonwealth, representatives of the Bar Associations of Great Britain, Canada, and, it is hoped of France...
...Canada has a few fess than 10,000 doctors. Last week 60 of them, professors in one or another of the nine leading medical schools of the Dominion, met at Ottawa and formally organized a Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada. The other seven dozen medical professors in the schools are to become Charter Fellows ipso facto, according to the enabling law passed by the Canadian Parliament last year...