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They asked little of life but independence, and that had a price. Through the '20s and '30s Newfoundlanders knew hard times. Their underdeveloped, underpopulated (300,000) island has never been self-sufficient. They imported much of what they ate. When world markets dried, and the full impact of depression was felt, Newfoundland went steadily downhill, hurried along by shortsighted leaders who ran her national debt from $43 million to $100 million in twelve years. In 1933 the treasury had $8 million in revenue to meet an expenditure of $11 million ($5 million in interest charges alone). Then there...
...help the hard-hit islanders become self-supporting again, the British Government agreed to pay deficits, made gifts and loans. But in return Britain demanded control. To replace Newfoundland's freely elected Assembly and Legislative Council, the British Dominions Office appointed three English civil servants and three Newfoundlanders to form, with the governor, a Commission of Government. The Commission turned out to be a dictatorship, however benevolent, and it never won public approval. Moreover, it could not lift the island out of the economic doldrums...
Arms & Surpluses. What finally did the trick was the war. Several months before Pearl Harbor, American servicemen joined Canadians in transforming the island into a Gibraltar. Before war's end, the U.S. and Canada poured hundreds of millions into Newfoundland for bases, barracks, dockyards, airports...
Under the new service, planes will leave Chicago every Monday morning, make the trip in 27 hours via Gander, Newfoundland, and Shannon Airport, at Rineanna, Eire. Fare: $605 one way, $1,095 round trip...
...Canada's official definition of "overseas": 1) for the Army-anywhere outside of Canada except in the West Indies, Bermuda or Newfoundland; 2) for the Navy and Air Force-anywhere beyond Canadian or U.S. territorial waters...