Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There should be no departure from the generally accepted principle that the law does not concern itself with the private irregular or immoral sexual relationships of consenting men and women." But there should be stricter safeguards for the young, and the age of consent should be raised from 16 to 17 years...
...matter is," said the gazelle, "that our pastures are too far from here. We spend half the day on our journey to them. We have complained everywhere, but in vain. What sort of a concern for the voice of the working people is this...
...Weed, 65, was elected president of Anaconda Co., succeeding Robert Emmett Dwyer, 70, who is retiring after 53 years with the company. Weed, the company's mining boss since 1938, will be the first engineer in 41 years to head Anaconda, the world's biggest copper mining concern and No. 1 U.S. manganese producer. A graduate of the Michigan State College of Mining and Technology, Weed started at the bottom of a mine as a pick-and-shovel hand in 1911, later managed copper properties throughout Michigan, Arizona and Mexico. In 1935 he was named president of Cananea...
...shook the Liberals was the government's measure to advance up to $80 million to the U.S.-controlled Trans-Canada Pipe Lines, Ltd. to build a natural-gas pipeline from Alberta to eastern Canada (TIME, May 21). Not only was the loan itself unpopular, because of growing Canadian concern about U.S. investors' control of national resources, but the heavy-handed way in which the Liberals attempted to ram the measure through Parliament stirred up the entire country. As soon as Trade & Commerce Minister C. D. Howe introduced it to Parliament, he immediately announced that he would enforce closure...
CRUDE-OIL IMPORTS must be cut, warns ODM. With industry planning imports of 352,000 bbls. daily v. 287,000 maximum advised by Government, ODM has notified industry of its "real concern" about effects on domestic production, hints it may seek import curbs if industry persists...