Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canadian voters, traditionally suspicious of offbeat political notions, have been content to alternate their government more or less regularly between the Conservatives, who took over after Confederation in 1867, and the Liberals, who have ruled the country since 1935. With a general election set for June 10. the two major parties now face a bumptious challenge from Western Canada. From their stronghold in Alberta and British Columbia, the Social Credit Party's high command swept into Toronto last week for a national convention launching their first serious bid for national influence...
...manual, not intended for family use, is designed for physicians, first-aid stations, and particularly the 60 poison-antidote centers now being set up across the U.S. In one alphabetical section (more than 800 pages), it lists 15,000 products by their trade names, with the chemical content where the manufacturers are willing to disclose it. There is a wealth of detail on household compounds, the poisons they contain, and the antidotes. Samples...
Paris was not for long content with such enlightened methods. Frenchmen poured into Morocco, grabbed up the best farmland with the help of laws dedicated to "extending the French presence," and allowing French farmers to pay 20% less tax than a Moroccan. They displaced the Moroccan administrators. They dug mines, made Morocco the world's second in production of phosphate, fifth in manganese, seventh in lead. They built roads and railroads, power plants and dams, constructed ports (Casablanca handles more tonnage than Marseille). They built 133 hospitals, at one time boasted they were opening a school...
...added some frosting to the cake, scoring two insurance runs on some heads-up base running in the sixth. Cleary laid down a perfect suicide squeeze bunt to score Haughey from third and Bergantino from second, which proved to be more than enough to send the partisan crowd home content. Box Score AB H R RBI Bergantino 5 0 1 0 Cleary 4 2 1 2 Simourian 4 2 1 0 Hastings 4 2 1 1 Botsford 4 1 1 0 Getch 3 2 1 2 Stahura 3 0 0 0 Haughey 4 1 1 0 McGinnis...
...woodwork and descend on Versailles, all set to eat Pippin out of house and palace. His daughter's American suitor proposes to merchandise the impoverished monarchy ("The Dukedom of Dallas?-why, ten billionaires would be after it"). All goes well as long as Pippin is content to remain wax in the hands of his advisers. Unfortunately, ermine makes the king, and he is soon drawn to exercise his divine rights...