Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tree-lined Southern Rhodesian capital of Salisbury (pop. 53,000), jovial Sir Godfrey Huggins, 70, was sworn in last week as Prime Minister of British Central Africa, the brand-new federation of the British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland and the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia. Sir Godfrey adjusted his spectacles, tuned in his hearing aid and almost shouted his oath of allegiance to the Crown. For Sir Godfrey, a lively and sure-handed surgeon with a flair for colonial politics, a 30-year dream had come true...
...years as Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister, he badgered London for a federation of the three colonies. Northern Rhodesia, rich in copper, needed Southern Rhodesia's coal; both colonies needed Nyasaland's ample supply of African labor. "A black front is advancing from the Gold Coast, a white front [Boer South Africa] is moving from the south," he explained. He believed that the federation would save Central Africa from becoming "the clashing point of those two fronts...
...were reflected in Vancouver's leading newspapers, the Sun and the Province. Said the Sun: "The tough policy has been tried before [and] has always failed." Said the Province: "Plain, ordinary methods cannot cope with [dynamiting and arson]. They could be moved bag and baggage to some isolated northern wilderness . . . where the prevailing temperature rules out nude parades...
Until his 40th birthday, Roy Herbert Thomson never owned a newspaper or hoped to. But once started, Thomson made up for lost time as few publishers have. After he bought a tiny paper in Northern Canada (with $3,000 he borrowed), the newspaper business looked so easy to Thomson that he confidently told a friend: "I'll be a millionaire some day." It was an accurate prediction. At 59, Publisher Thomson owns a string of 18 dailies all over Canada, close to one-fourth of Canada's English-language newspapers. Last year he pushed into...
...began to clerk in a fishing supply store, starting at $5 a week. Within ten years he had invested his small savings so shrewdly that he had $20,000, which he lost in a pie-in-the-sky Saskatchewan land deal. During the Depression he sold radios in northern Ontario, quickly found that in some remote Canadian towns reception was so poor that few people would buy his sets. Thomson knew how to solve that. For $500, he bought his own transmitter, started broadcasting recorded programs from North Bay, Ont. (pop. 15,599). When he moved 230 miles north...