Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dominion Coal Co.* could be expected to do some hard bargaining before granting any such increases, and would probably tie them to production boosts. Two years ago, Dosco's miners were digging only 1.6 tons of coal per man-day (against 6.3 in the U.S.). Two weeks ago, Dosco reported that June production was up to 2.53 tons-near the prewar peak -and still rising toward a goal of 4.5 tons in 1953. Much of the increase is due to mechanization, which the miners once fought, now support...
...Ottawa, the Dominion government issued figures on immigration to Canada in the first half of 1948. Six-month total: 57,275. Main sources: British Isles (23,-468), Europe's D.P. camps (18,886), The Netherlands...
Since India and Pakistan became independent just one year ago, 561 of 562 princely states have joined either one dominion or the other: The holdout is Hyderabad, about the size of Minnesota, whose ruler, the Nizam, is said to be the richest man in the world. Last week, under pressure to become part of India, Hyderabad appealed to the U .N. Security Council for help in preserving its independence. In Hyderabad, TIME Correspondent Robert Lubar examined Hyderabad's cold war with India, which may touch off a new wave of Hindu-Moslem warfare. Lubar cabled...
...lack of a modern, well-paved Trans-Canada Highway is not for want of talk. Associations all over the Dominion have plugged for it. So have provincial leaders, and last week Ottawa admitted that it had heard some of them. Prompted by the oratory of British Columbia's Premier Byron ("Boss") Johnson at the Liberal Convention, it promised to call a Dominion-provincial highway conference this fall. Because the British North America Act leaves the problem of highways to the provinces, Ottawa was not ready to do much more than confer. Besides, it wanted the provinces to bear...
Since Confederation, the Dominion government has spent only $79 million on peacetime highway construction, mostly on a dollar-for-dollar basis with the provinces as make-work in hard times. This fall's conference will thresh out how to charge off the estimated $400 million needed to put a cross-Canada route into shape. It will also try to agree on a route...