Word: dominions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...John D. Rockefeller Jr., Brown '97, gave $5,000,000 to Harvard for a new Business School classroom building with a string attached: other donors must match his gift by July 1950. ¶ The Old Dominion Foundation (set up by Paul Mellon, Yale '29) gave Yale University and Vassar College $2,000,000 each to finance psychiatric studies...
...owns a big piece of Canada. According to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, U.S. citizens have invested more than $5 billion north of the border. Better than half of that amount-an estimated $2.7 billion-is in the U.S.-controlled companies, subsidiaries and branches that make up 37% of the investment in Canadian industry...
...would be changed at Newfoundland's Gander airport. There, under the "Bermuda Agreement" with Great Britain (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946), the airlines had been able to: 1) refuel for their transatlantic flights, and 2) pick up and discharge passengers (traffic rights). The agreement ended when Newfoundland joined the Dominion, since Canada had never granted traffic privileges to U.S. lines. Thus she had a strong card to play for more air rights from...
...permanent news bureau in Ottawa. Since that time, as TIME Canadian's circulation and advertising volume have more than doubled, our Canadian coverage has grown steadily. We now have additional bureaus in Montreal and Toronto plus 26 string correspondents who are high-ranking journalists on Canadian newspapers. This Dominion-wide network of reporters represents an increasing effort to get the best possible coverage of the news in Canada...
...London last week, six Prime Ministers and one Foreign Minister from the Commonwealth Nations joined British Prime Minister Clement Attlee to fret over a problem that might rudely upset the Commonwealth's finely adjusted balances. The problem was posed by the fact that India, now a free dominion within the Commonwealth, had declared her intention of severing her connection with the Crown; she would become an "independent sovereign republic" next August...