Word: dominions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
...endurance test. Only 1,945 out of 4,300-odd miles are hard-surfaced. In winter snow blocks the Rockies' passes, shuts off even the most adventuresome motorists. Not until 1943, when the last link was finished in Ontario, was there even a makeshift road across the Dominion. Even then, it was three years before any motorist made the trip from sea to sea-twelve days of bumps, jolts and dust...
...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...
...Vanquished. In Quebec's gloomy Reform Club, provincial Liberals surveyed their shattered organization, at its lowest ebb in 50 years. Duplessis' victory had pushed any hopes of dominion-provincial tax agreement off into the dim future. Along with Tory George Drew's recent victory in Ontario and Drew's open bid for national leadership, it gave the Drew-Duplessis axis a new and potent meaning...