Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always amazes me to see the 'big names' who write TIME'S letters," wrote Canadian Reader Stan Obodiac of Yorkton, Sask. "One recent issue [Nov. 26], I believe, hit the alltime high: Ignazio Silone, Renata Tebaldi, Major General Chennault, Ed Sullivan, Floyd B. Odium, to name several...
...Canadian immigration center in London's Mayfair district, long queues of men, women and children overflowed into the street from morning to night all last week. Ordinarily, winter is a quiet time at Canada's overseas immigration bureaus. But ever since the Suez crisis, immigration offices in Britain have been stormed by a steady rush of Britons who want to move to Canada...
...fated Suez adventure had powerfully affected the Britons' decision to leave. The British emigrant flow to Canada averaged close to 50,000 annually in the first difficult postwar years, but fell off to a mere 12,000 in 1950 as British living conditions improved. In 1955, despite vigorous Canadian promotion, only 35,467 made the move. Applications picked up noticeably after Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal in midsummer, and when the canal was blocked and new austerity measures were enforced at home, the long queues began to form...
Canada, understandably, prefers British immigrants. To make sure that none would be turned away, the Canadian government planned to open two new offices in Britain (there are four now). Some 60,000 emigrants are expected to be on their way within the next year, raising Canada's total British immigration to 467,000 since World...
...paper to a charitable foundation that he had set up to avoid paying crippling inheritance taxes. To comply with an Ontario law that sets a seven-year limit on ownership of businesses by philanthropic groups, the paper technically should have been put up for sale last April. But when Canadian Beer Tycoon E. P. Taylor offered $25 million for the Star, three of the five directors vetoed the sale out of respect for Atkinson's oft-stated hope that the Star would remain in his family's or employees' hands. In May, when U.S. Newspaper Broker Nelson...