Word: dominione
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Immigration Act commute across the U. S. border to daily work. Minister Massey had protested to the U. S. on this interpretation, originally made by the Labor Department, on the ground that it goes behind Canada's citizenship laws, discriminates between native and foreign-born citizens of the Dominion. The Supreme Court's decision immediately barred some 600 Canadian workers at Detroit...
Newsprint. Some 90% of Canada's woodpulp and paper production goes to the U. S. International Paper & Power Co., a U. S. concern with holdings in the Dominion (see p. 40), has developed such a grip over the U. S. supply that last year the threat of a Canadian embargo made U. S. newspaper publishers shudder...
Annexation. The bugaboo of Annexation has lost its political potency in Canada and in its place has been raised a cry against the "Americanization" of the Dominion. ''Americanization" runs from U. S. bathtubs to U. S. comic strips, each item of which is at one time or another anathematized in the Canadian press, pulpit and political forum...
...Dominion of Canada there is a large corporation which last week was planning to spend some $5,000,000 on two hotels in Canada, and to build a new hotel in London, England. This corporation has also let contracts for an Atlantic liner, Empress of Britain, and a Pacific liner, Empress of Japan, the two ships to cost nearly $20,000,000. It owns some 140,000 miles of telegraph wire, distributes millions of young trees (gratis) to Canadian farmers, has settled more than 55,000 immigrants on more than 30,000,000 Canadian acres, and operates a traveling school...
...earnings. U. S. railroads traditionally sell at around ten times earnings, but in Canada there is no Interstate Commerce Commission and no recapture clause to limit a road's earnings on its investment. In addition to its extra-railroad activities, Canadian Pacific has asked the Dominion Parliament for authority to construct 1,200 miles of branch lines and expects to build some 465 miles during the present year. Expansion plans centre around the Saskatchewan district and may result in a "war" with Canadian National which has considered the Saskatchewan territory as particularly its own. Should hostilities result, the Canadian...