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Show Things I Nrvrr Kncio 'Til Now (About Canada's War Effort) Canada is the only one of America's Amer-ica's Allies which has not used Lend-Lease Lend-Lease help . . . Most of her money payments to the Allies have been outright gifts because Canada Is opposed op-posed to piling up war debts . . . The United States is Canada's best customer; and Canada is at the top of the list of our best customers . . . Canada is the world's largest producer pro-ducer of aluminum. Last year she produced more than the whole world did in 1939 . . . Canada is the world's largest producer of nickel and is practically the only source of supply available to the United Nations . . . Canada is the world's largest producer of asbestos, terrifically terrifi-cally important on aircraft carriers and battleships . . . She is a heavy producer of lead, zinc and mercury, and the most important discovery of tungsten ore yet found on this continent conti-nent is now being developed by the Canadian government direct . . . It's the backbone of battle armor. without Canadian radium tne new services and hospitals of the United Nations' armies would be almost helpless . . . Canada is producing five times as much armor plate, guns and tools as she did in 1939 . . . She is producing 16 types of gun carriages and mountings, although al-though before she entered the war she had never manufactured a big gun . . . She has delivered 100,000 units to date . . . Canada has the largest small arms factory in the British Empire. She has produced more than a million rifles and enough ammunition to fire 300 shots at every soldier in the German army . . . Canada is second only to us in building ships, although she had not built a seagoing cargo ship in 20 years when Hitler marched on Poland . . . Canada supplies all of the signal corps of the United Nations Na-tions with a large amount of their equipment, including nearly 100 types of signaling sets . . . Canada has developed a new secret explosive explo-sive for the invasion the most powerful pow-erful in the world. Canada has mobilized the mightiest mighti-est of all her resources, her fighting people . . . Forty thousand women are in the Canadian armed forces. Over 5,000 are in the Canadian Navy Services, and 16,000 are in the RCAF . . . On Canada's mighty munitions assembly line, one out of every four persons is a Canadian woman. They handle the technical signaling devices de-vices and secret naval codes and, believe it or not, they plot the convoy con-voy routes . . . The Canadian Gov't has found them so proficient at Radar Ra-dar and Asdic that women are used as instructors. Nor is their work confined to intricate mechanical devices. de-vices. They overhaul aircraft engines, en-gines, operate power machines and actually operate the new instrument which determines errors in cannon fire. The newspaper you are reading probably is printed on Canadian newsprint. Canada is by far the largest producer of newsprint in the world ... In spite of her terrific war effort, Canada is sending more newsprint to the U. S. ;than she did at the start of the war. A large part of it goes in direct support of our own war effort, because American Ameri-can production has declined 24 per cent and our other markets have almost al-most disappeared ... In our crucial cru-cial year of 1941 Canadian production produc-tion of newsprint was more than three times that of the U. S. and everybody knows how much paper a bureaucrat can use. In Canada price ceilings mean something . . . The cost of living has gone up only 2 per cent in two years, while in the United States and Australia it went up almost 14 per cent on the same scale of measurement meas-urement . . . The Canadian people are shelling out taxes at a rate which would equal more than 30 billion bil-lion dollars in this country . . . Last year the Government of MacKenzie King threw 4 billion dollars into the kitty to beat Hitler . . . Production and national income in Canada have doubled since the start of the war . . . After the war Canada will expand ex-pand like we did in 1900 . . . The Shipshaw power development in northern Canada has an installed capacity equal to the total capacity of Niagara Falls plants on both sides of the river. It has a continuous output of electrical energy greater than that of our own great Boulder Dam plant . . . Canada, with less than a fifth of its water power resources re-sources developed, has the second largest amount of hydro-electric generating gen-erating capacity of any country in the world. The Royal Canadian Air Force has 200,000 men manning its planes . . There are 36 RCAF squadrons overseas over-seas . . . The Royal Air Force itself it-self depends for one-fourth of its strength on RCAF crews . . . The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan is based in Canada . . . Practically Prac-tically every man in the service of His Majesty, who has anything to do with a plane, learned how to handle han-dle his job in Canada . . . Nineteen out of 20 of the boys who are dropping drop-ping the bad news on Berlin got the know-how in Canada. |