Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something be done and done soon about internationalizing The Bomb. A prominent spokesman for them had been Physicist Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant. Others, following Oliphant's lead, had secretly circulated a round robin declaring that they would rebel against enforced secrecy if the Government ignored them, Official Secrets Act...
...Into Parliament's lap last week Justice Minister Louis Stephen St. Laurent dropped the 60-page, 30,000-word summary: a report on cartels, their effect on Canadians, what should be done about them. Chief investigator was Fred A. McGregor, Commissioner of Canada's Combines [Monopolies] Investigation Act. Examples of what be reported...
...Act III finds Cynthia a very, very sick girl-a juicy situation that Playwright Delmar seizes on with such intemperate pleasure that she loses her head and her grip on the show...
Billy Southworth had done a good job of pulling himself up by his bootstraps. He first took over the Cards in 1929, and Degan by putting his foot in his mouth. The first day he read a highhanded riot act to the club, and Veteran Chick Hafey whispered to tobacco-chewing Jim Bot-tomley, "Don't look now, but there's a hell on the job." Southworth got fired in midseason...
...only way of selling the rest, FLC hopes to induce foreign nations to borrow from the U.S., use the money to buy surpluses. So far, no nation has shown any signs of wanting such loans. Thanks to the inept Surplus Property Act of 1944, they are well aware that the U.S. is in no position to haggle. The act bans the shipment of goods back to the U.S. for resale, lest such goods compete with private industry. So the goods must stay where they are. Ironically, the U.S. cannot even ship home its steamrollers & bulldozers (see cut) rusting away...