Word: busyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For the benefit of other interested observers, London's papers printed every detail of the wedding plans as they were announced. Even in New York the British Information Service was kept busy answering questions. "Yes," they told one questioner, "the wedding will be paid for in the usual fashion...
Clark was only one of several American tree-buyers busy in Nova Scotia. This year the province expects to ship 2,000,000 trees to the U.S., up 100,000 over 1946. The trees will find their way into homes as far away as Miami and St. Louis.
In Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia, tree dealers were busy in the woodlands. Last year, the Dominion sent 7,143,525 firs and Scotch pines across the border, valued at $1,839,000. This year, the take may exceed $2,000,000.
The profits were enough to cause some viewing with alarm. At the New York Herald Tribune Forum, John G. Winant, ex-ambassador to Britain, warned that such "unprecedented profits in combination with the high cost of the necessities of life" created dissension at home and conflicted with U.S. foreign policy...
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