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Next day, Laborite John Dugdale turned to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, directly asked him to come clean on the Government's colonial policy. Said the Prime Minister, with his accomplished air of plowing a statesmanlike furrow through the rich dirt of politics: ". . . His Majesty's Government are convinced that the administration of the British colonies must continue to be the sole responsibility of Great Britain. The policy of His Majesty's Government is to plan for the fullest possible political, economic and social development within the British Empire-and in close cooperation with the neighboring and friendly...
...farm bloc then insisted on 112 per cent by writing in a clause that wages to labor should be included in costs. Since only a few thousand well-to-do farmers hire laborers for pay, this proviso is both arbitrary and unnecessary. Only this minority fights to the last furrow for inflationary farm prices...
...very successful as a tenor, furrow-browed, gesticulating Vocalist Karolik 13 years ago married Martha Codman, a member of one of Boston's best families, whose personal fortune was estimated at five million. Installed in a marble mansion in Newport, Karolik, inspired by the workmanship displayed in his wife's inherited family relics, decided to make early American antiques his hobby. Badly needing advice, he made a deal with the Boston Museum of Fine Arts: they should guide and direct him in making purchases, he would present the completed collection to the museum...
...Georgia. He came back to manage his brother's plantation near Oxford, where he "raised niggers and mules." John Faulkner admits he is still not much of a farmer, says "it would take a man a lifetime to learn how to plough a straight furrow...
...Texas Panhandle is a high (4,000 ft.) plateau, famed for its freakish weather, its cities that rise abruptly above the plain, its ranches, wheat and oil fields. It is so flat and landmarks are so rare that around Amarillo (pop. 52,000) early settlers plowed furrows from settlement to settlement to guide travelers across the trackless, treeless expanse. One such furrow was about 150 miles long. It was so bleak that an army officer who explored it in 1849 reported: "This country is, and must remain, uninhabited forever." Its wind and weather became so famous that Texans said, "There...