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...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...
...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...
...Dominion of Satan. Much of psychiatry, Sheen argues, only gives man a false sense that all is well with him, when in reality things could not be worse. The psychiatrist's patient may indeed gain peace of mind, but the Christian gets something far better-peace of soul. "There is a world of difference between [them]. Peace of mind is the result of bringing some ordering principle to bear on discordant human experiences; this may be achieved by tolerance, or by a gritting of one's teeth in the face of pain; by killing conscience, or denying guilt...
...Living an awakened life...the individual can always have dominion over his institutions," said Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, striking the keynote of an appraisal of the role of the individual in a world of institutions...