Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buzzing cheerily over frozen Dominion tundra, Pilot Hume lost his vision because of a frosty windshield. He slowed down to clean it off by moving into a large snowbank at the side of the road, since it would save his rather feeble brakes undue exertion. Like the boy who tackled the snowman built around a fire hydrant Hume found that all is not snow that drifts. The ancient carriage demolished itself against a submerged culvert...
...sooty town of Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia there was cheer one morning last week. The Princess Colliery, owned by Dominion Steel & Coal Corp. Ltd., had announced that it was putting on extra shifts so that the miners could earn something for Christmas. Shops broke out with holiday decorations and Sydney Mines was festive. But the cheer lasted only...
...surface facts seem impishly simple: backed at first by an elderly Halifax financier, he engineered mergers of banks, utilities, steel and cement companies, collecting ever bigger commissions. His greatest merger, which formed the $37,500,000 Canada Cement Co. Ltd., was almost a Dominion scandal (which Beaverbrook blames on a disappointed rival). But he was already tired of mere moneymaking...
...Duke & Duchess of Gloucester are now touring in British Africa. Neville Chamberlain, in close collaboration with the Dominion Prime Ministers, is preparing to play every Empire drawing card from Kents to Quints. Dr. Dafoe announced last week that the five Wards of the King will be taught how to curtsy to royalty before Their Majesties arrive next Spring...
...ruins, crawled over fallen temples which reeked with the decayed jungle vegetation of eight centuries, collected Khmer statuary, then abruptly lost interest in Indo-China's past, became interested in Indo-China's present. Working with a group known as the Young Annam League, which fought for dominion status for Indo-China, he was soon in trouble. He had collected Khmer statuary which the authorities insisted should be turned over to the Government. Malraux refused, lost a suit in the lower courts but won an appeal when it was learned that the documents submitted in the case dealt...