Word: border
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Border Skirmishes...
Even with wheat prices still booming in a hungry world, the mortgage issue is far from academic for hundreds of submarginal wheat farmers along Saskatchewan's western border. To keep these uneconomic producers from going to the wall, the province will probably pass a cumbersome moratorium bill. On the broad issue of the province's powers, Premier Douglas promised to appeal the Ottawa court's decision to the Privy Council in London...
...rather it was the natural result of today's international business-a dozen different countries commercially interdependent, compressed into an area the size of the U.S., and all going through their separate agonies of political and economic upheaval. But in spite of the retarding effects of domestic and border controls, the businessmen of Europe are doggedly, and in many cases aggressively, attempting to rebuild their enterprises...
...voice from across the border did complain. The objection came from strait-laced Avery Brundage, president of the U.S. Olympic Association. He had once dismissed Swimmer Eleanor Holm Jarrett (now Mrs. Billy Rose) from the U.S. Olympic team for late hours and champagne-drinking. But to Canada, this was different: why should he run to fellow members of the International Olympic Committee with grievances that did not concern his own team? (He also complained that Barbara Ann had accepted jewelry...
...oldtime, rootin'-shootin' law enforcer of the Wild West; in Tucson, Ariz. During a career that made a Hollywood horse opera seem tame, Milton was a Texas Ranger, deputy sheriff in once-lawless Apache County, Ariz., police chief of El Paso, a one-man Rio Grande border patrol (from El Paso "to hell & gone"). He once went after three train-robbing desperados, wired back: "Send two coffins and one doctor...