Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discipline" troublesome labor unions. As States Minister, he brought India's 550-odd feudal princelings to heel. (In one whirlwind 96-hour tour he pressured two dozen princes into surrendering their political powers, thus added 8,000,000 people and 56,000 square miles to the Dominion of India.) Together with his many friends among India's industrialists, he worked successfully to modify Nehru's socialist tendencies...
...diplomatic smoke and steam, there was no real doubt in Ottawa or elsewhere that Canada stood squarely with the U.S. if total war proved to be the fateful outcome. Almost as a token of this, when the U.S. ordered an embargo on trade with Communist China last week, the Dominion immediately followed suit...
...last week, a reporter asked a World War II officer, now a prosperous father of three children, what he planned to do if the Korean crisis should develop into World War III. Said he: "I guess I'd be a damn fool again and join up." Across the Dominion this was a typical attitude. But like most Americans, most Canadians galloped off in all directions when they talked about ways to resolve the crisis...
...Street buzzed with rumors that the Aliens and allied U.S speculators had gobbled up 35% of Sun Life's stock. Out to Sun Life's Canadian stockholders went frantic telephone pleas from company officers not to sell, to "keep this fine old Canadian company Canadian." At the Dominion Insurance Office's behest, Canadian Finance Minister Douglas Abbott took one step to repel the invaders. He announced last fortnight that he would sponsor a bill to "freeze" Canadian insurance companies' dividend-payment policies...
...Canadians were financing their own future. While British and U.S. capital, which helped develop Canada in earlier days, is still welcomed, the Dominion is no longer dependent upon it. Canadians themselves are now plowing back more than 20% of their earnings into expansion and new developments...