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Doughty, able Premier Stuart Sinclair Garson asked the provincial legislature for authority to raise a loan of $10,500,000, then to embark on an ambitious project to buttress Manitoba's basic agricultural economy with new and expanded industries. If he got the loan, he proposed to add $5,500,000 more which the Government had laid aside out of tidy wartime surpluses...
...south. All were there by agreement; all by agreement should leave not later than next March 2. The U.S. contingent of nearly 4,000 men, smallest of the three, was preparing to depart by the end of the year. The other two would stay until due date, presumably to buttress their Government's diplomacy...
Gloves Off? Back to their respective stations hurried the proconsuls. New levies of Dutchmen drilled in Malaya. French battalions disembarked in Indo-China. The British 6th Airborne Division, veterans of the Battle of Arnhem, stood ready at Singapore to buttress the strong policy in Java...
France remained impassive. Without abrogating its League of Nations mandate, France had recognized the de facto independence of the Levant states in the dark days of 1943. Now, the Quai d'Orsay wished to buttress its position with a treaty of alliance and friendship giving France strategic rights (air fields in Syria, naval bases in The Lebanon), economic privileges (preferential tariff treatment), cultural advantages (French to be a compulsory school language). The Lebanese and Syrians are willing to compromise only on the first point...
...buttress this and other suggestions, NPA pointed out that, in prewar 1940, Congress cost the taxpayers only 1?: out of every $7 spent by the U.S. Government, held that a small extra cost would pay handsome dividends. But Heller insisted that other changes-e.g., reduction of standing committees-should come along with such items as pensions and salary increases. Said Heller: "It appears obvious that Congress is operating with hand tools in a mechanized...