Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frail Tomás Berreta. When Berreta flew to the U.S. to visit President Truman in February, Uruguayans wondered if it would be too much for him. When he took office in March, they wondered how long he could live. Soon he had strength enough only to conduct affairs of. state at his bedside. Last week in a Montevideo hospital long-ailing Tomás Berreta called his Cabinet for a last meeting. Two hours later he died. Through streets jam-packed with mourners, his supporters bore his coffin on their shoulders to Government House...
With Dignity. In Edmonton, Health Minister Cross was not talking. One day before the Whitton summary was released, his government set up a three-man commission headed by Chief Justice William Robinson Howson to conduct a "full investigation" into the policies of the Child Welfare Branch of the Ministry. Minister Cross said he would await the findings of the commission...
Recognizing that all Germans are not "bad" and that their conduct was partially not of their own volition, the powers that finally dispose of Germany's future should temper their firmness with merey. But they should not be either weak or apologetic. Germany should be reconstructed in a fashion best suited to promote peace. Maudlin sympathy, such as Mr. White drools, should not be permitted to sheme Americans into letting Germany write its own ticket...
...most conscious of the necessity for free speech for all--not just for those with whom they happen to agree--if change and progress is to be accomplished without violence. Yet their action is all the more deplorable since they are private organizations and not accountable for their conduct in any election...
...bark or a floating feather may scare them into piling up in great heaps in which the bottom ducks smother. Sometimes dive-bombing seagulls frighten them into drowning. Diseases may wipe out whole hatches. Yet when the Long Island Duck Farmers' Association recently hired a retired physician to conduct research into cures, he had difficulty getting information from tight-lipped quack farmers. During the prosperous war years, duck farmers netted anywhere from $7,000 to $50,000 a year-thanks partially to the 90? a pound they got for duck feathers for airmen's vests...