Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ages. In New Delhi, people gave Lord Mountbatten an endless and slightly rueful round of farewell parties. Preparing to take his place was Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (conveniently known as "C.R."), one of the Congress Party's austere leaders (he neither smokes, drinks nor goes to the movies). If the Dominion of India decides to break away from the British Commonwealth, C.R. will be its last Governor General. Said he last week: "I shall have to shake hands with Warren Hastings* across the ages, saying, 'You were the first and I am the last in your noble line...
...Dominion's Labor Department, Canadian housewives have a reputation as the country's toughest employers. They are always short of domestic help, seldom satisfied with what they have. Their sternness, plus the attraction of jobs in factory and store, long ago began to whittle down the supply of Canadian maids who could turn out tasty meals, dust in the corners and keep a civil tongue...
...Amusement taxes of 20% and 25% and the 5% tax on pari-mutuel betting are abandoned, at a cost to the Dominion of $23½ million annually. (At least three of the provinces will impose similar taxes to fill their own tills...
...nine others charged but found innocent, four are back at their former jobs; one of them working for the Dominion government, one for a Montreal newspaper and two others, a physician and an optometrist, at their own practices in Toronto. The rest of the acquitted have had to get other jobs. One of them, a biochemist, went to Paris to work after vainly trying for a year to get a place in Canada...
...tell the U.S. about the new road, the summer skiing, the mountain peaks and the trout fishing, the Alberta government was spending $179,900 on radio programs, advertisements and glossy come-ons. It was laying down $15,000,000 for roads, while the Dominion government was earmarking $3,500,000 for Alberta's parks...