Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CCFers and many a Liberal cheered. From the Tories came a chorus of "No! No!" Arsenault's private bill had little chance of passage. Snapped the Ottawa Journal: "... A very silly notion. Words or the lack of them do not make our independence." But many loyal, pro-Empire Canadians agreed with Arsenault's purpose, if not his motive: they were tired of explaining to Americans that "Dominion" does not imply "domination...
...batted in. Afield he looked a little slow (his brittle ankles were troubling him again), but he still had the uncanny knack of outguessing the ball that made him the league's top shortstop last year. As a manager, Boudreau has been somewhat less phenomenal. Yet when President Bill Veeck tried to trade Boudreau off last season (the club finished fourth), Cleveland fans flooded Veeck with 10,000 letters demanding that Boudreau be kept. He was on a $50,000-a-year contract...
Died. William S. (Signius Wilhelm Poul) Knudsen, 69, plain-spoken mass production genius, who left the General Motors presidency in 1940 to direct the U.S. armament program; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Detroit. Danish-born "Big Bill" Knudsen arrived in the U.S. with $30 in 1899, went to work in a shipyard, got a job in 1911 with Henry Ford and became his right-hand man. After a policy row in 1921, he went over to G.M. and soon made Chevrolet the competitor that killed the Model...
...from $1 to $5 a ton, even though first-quarter profits were down. (Big Steel's were down to $33,957,341 v. $39,234,511 last year.) Republic Steel Corp., third biggest steelmaker, was studying prices, had not yet acted. In all, the nation's steel bill had been cut about $80 million a year, not quite what it had been boosted two months ago (TIME, March...
...draft-UMT bill will become law in from three weeks to a month, Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14 predicted over the weekend...