Word: frosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Canadians have kept Liberal governments in power in Ottawa for 20 years. Canada is by no means a one-party country. In provincial elections held last week in Ontario. Canada's most populous province, the Progressive Conservative (Tory) government, led by Premier Leslie Miscampbell Frost, won a smashing victory and was returned to office for a fifth straight term. The Tories captured 83 seats in the 98-seat legislature, while the Liberals, even with the strong backing of their party's powerful administration in Ottawa, could win only...
...Tory victory was largely a personal triumph for Premier Leslie Frost, 59. A genial small-town lawyer from Lindsay, Ont. (pop. 9,603). Frost took over the premiership in 1949 and steadily built up the Tory vote by running a smooth, prosperous administration. One of his first moves was to settle a long taxation feud between the Ontario and federal governments. Frost tried no spectacular political experiments, but he kept taxes low, increased welfare grants, ran his cabinet so efficiently that hardly a hint of discord ever was heard outside the caucus room...
...Sale: Human Milk. The floods that devastated about one-tenth of Red China's farmland last year were the worst floods of the century; then, for central and southeast China, came the sharpest frost in 72 years, for south China the worst drought in 100 years. "The calamities were so serious," Red China's Agriculture Minister Liao Lu-yen reported to the Communist State Council, "that last year's food production was reduced by 25 billion catties [12.5 million tons]." Tientsin's Ta Kung Pao noted: "150 million peasants are short of food...
This year Maine potato prices rose in April as a result of a damaging frost in the southern potato fields, hit a peak of $5.15 per 100 lbs. CEA suspects that speculators then sold short heavily in Maine futures, counting on a sharp price drop later on, which would enable them to deliver their contracts at a heavy profit. Furthermore, the traders had counted on delivering minimum-size 2-in. potatoes in the standard 100-1b. bags used by the exchange. But this year Maine's farmers got the Agriculture Department to allow only 2¼-in. potatoes...
...surprises. Eliot's lesser poetic cousins-Auden, Spender, Stevens-sip the highballs that somehow fail to intoxicate, that are diluted by too much intellectual ice. There are such grand old but long-familiar individualists as Martini-clever e. e. cummings (with lemon peel) and hard-cider-happy Robert Frost. The younger men frantically mix their drinks, from opaque Bloody Marys to phony-bucolic applejack. Mostly they are reduced to talking to each other...