Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another aim in making Jamaica a model Caribbean island. A start has already been made toward federation of Britain's Caribbean colonies (TIME, March 5), and Manley, who returned from London last week, envisions the day when all the colonies will be joined in a new British Commonwealth dominion. When that day comes (probably in 1958), Chief Minister Manley wants Jamaica to be the new nation's richest province-and, of course, its logical capital...
Under the gradually slackening reins of colonial dominion, Nigeria has achieved a high degree of national prosperity. In 1954 its favorable trade balance of exports (cocoa, palm oil, peanuts) over imports reached a record $100 million. Even among the slums and squalor of beggar-strewn Lagos there are startling evidences of a middle-class prosperity: neat two-story homes in Ikoyi suburb, equipped with every modern convenience; a ramshackle bar in Shopono Street doing a hotcakes business in the best imported beer at 35? a bottle. A block from Ibadan's new University College, Nigerian necromancers sell dried mice...
Said Albert Clifford Ashforth, president of the Toronto-Dominion Bank: "Canadians never had it so good. In 1955, they produced more, imported more, exported more, earned more, spent more, consumed more, borrowed more, saved more and invested more than in any previous year...
...rough division of labor, South Africa's 1,100,000 whites of British descent run the country's commerce and industry (including the richest gold and diamond mines on earth), and leave its politics to the dominion's 1,500,000 largely rural Afrikaners. A consequence of this uneasy arrangement is that the most immoderate government in the British Commonwealth is fast driving the country toward race trouble and out of the empire...
Through his Canadian Delhi Petroleum Ltd., Murchison has control of i 1trillion cu. ft. of gas underground in Alberta. In combination with other gas interests, Delhi formed the Trans-Canada Pipelines Ltd. to build a line across the dominion to supply the gas-starved east. Estimated cost of the 2,240-mile line: $350 million...