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...Flags. Prime Minister Clement Attlee offered Burma a choice between full independence and Dominion status, pointing out that the latter was not "independence minus" but "independence plus." The Burmans settled for an interim government much like India's. They won some concessions: 1) control of their own finances and troops; 2) an election in April for a Constituent Assembly...
...Dominion wanted to get out of the war-born airplane business. So last October, Reconstruction Minister Clarence D. Howe began looking around for someone to take over the big Canadair plant, near Montreal, which was operated for the Government during the war by Canadian Vickers Ltd. Howe wanted the plant to go on making the North Star transport, a modified Douglas DC-4, thus 1) keep 7,500 workers in their jobs and 2) preserve the nucleus of an air industry. He could not find a well-heeled Canadian willing to do the job. But last week he found...
...round body and face, keen dark eyes and spectacles that perched halfway down his nose, the Cardinal was also a power in Canada. Of recent years, his influence has been exerted notably to guide Quebec away from her isolationism and toward greater unity with the rest of the Dominion...
Satisfaction. Retail sales in Canada in 1946, helped by a massive Christmas rush, passed the $5 billion mark for the first time in the Dominion's history. The national income was at an alltime high: $9,400,000,000. Canadian exports for the year, primed by nearly $2,000,000,000 worth of loans to foreign countries (much of it for purchases in Canada), hit a record peacetime high : $2,300,000,000. So did imports, at $1,900,000,000. The bulk of the trade was with the U.S. Canada entertained 20,000,000 U.S. tourists who spent...
Anticipation. Best of all, the Dominion's markets for 1947 seemed likely to be as good as in 1946. Her 110 pulp and paper mills, the Dominion's largest industry, had turned out nearly 7,000,000 tons of paper products worth $700,000,000-and customers all over the world were clamoring for still higher production. Despite a lack of sheet steel (a shortage caused by U.S. and Canadian steel strikes), auto plants managed to build 178,000 cars and trucks, 3% above the average prewar production. And the pile of domestic and foreign orders was higher...