Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brilliant but not unblemished, the career of Sir Richard Anderson Squires, Premier of Newfoundland, took a sharp, sensational downward twist last week. By one of the largest Opposition majorities ever piled up in a Dominion election 74% of Newfoundland's ballot casters voted to oust Squires...
Canadians, more rural than U. S. residents, are less self-destructive. Average rate for the Dominion's large cities was 14.9 per 100,000. But Victoria last year rated 20.8, Saskatoon 22.3, Vancouver...
John Stanley Plaskett, director, Dominion Astronomical Observatory LL.D...
...Supervision of Canadian broadcasts by a Dominion commission charged with improving the quality of programs...
British System. The U. S. has 609 radio stations, no license fee for receiving sets. Canada has 66 stations. It taxes receivers $2 per year, figures that there are some 100,000 "bootleg sets" in the Dominion. In the British Isles there are 22 stations, all directed from the B. B. C. flatiron. The license fee of ten shillings per set (about $1.80 at current exchange) supplies the chief revenue of the B. B. C. and most listeners feel they get their money's worth. From licenses B. B. C nets around $4,500,000 per year, nets another...