Word: posting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canada ($4.2 billion in the past five years) that it now equals almost half the gross national product. Canadians rejoice in the boom that the money brings-but they are increasingly uneasy about the implications. CAN WE SURVIVE u.s. INVESTMENT? asked a recent headline in Toronto's Financial Post, Canada's most influential business newspaper...
...capital comes in here because this is a profitable country in which to invest, not for altruistic reasons. U.S. capital dominates many key Canadian industries. What this means is that the making of economic decisions affecting Canada lies far too often in non-Canadian hands." Said the Financial Post: "Canadians wonder whether they can call their country their own when outsiders own so much...
...Anglican Communion (and included a prayer for the Pope as "Head of the Church"). Yes, he had celebrated the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary-not recognized by the Church of England. In fact, said Harris, he deplored the Reformation and felt no loyalty to the post-Reformation church. Then he resigned...
...white officials, who have impounded issues and jailed staffers, sometimes confiscated the cameras of Drum photographers on the ground that any "coloured" with a camera must surely have stolen it. These difficulties do not perturb Drum's Editor Henry Thomas Hopkinson, 54, former editor of the London Picture Post (now defunct), who went to Johannesburg in 1958, regularly entertains native staffers in his home...
...homeland to a waning but graceful and distinctively Japanese art-the woodblock print. But the clean, flat patterns of Japanese printers had a major influence on Western painters from Whistler to Matisse. A century later, the influence has been reversed. Japanese artists, freshly inspired by the works of European post-impressionists and abstractionists, are breathing new life into an old form...