Word: gordon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canadian wages are frozen; so are manufacturers' wholesale prices and the retail prices of everything in Canada, from popguns to butter. The man responsible is 40-year-old Donald Gordon, self-educated Scots immigrant who is chairman of Canada's Wartime Prices and Trade Board...
...restrictions Gordon slapped on the Canadian public in 1941, designed to stop inflation, were the most stringent of any democracy's until Australia, in the face of Japanese invasion, went for all-out conscription. Canadians took them in their stride. But last week they wondered what next. In Montreal, their No. 1 economic controller announced that Canada's present competitive system must be replaced by one "based entirely on the criterion of maximum production...
...little disturbed that there may be an impression through the reading of [TIME, March 9] . . . that Major General Gordon Bennett was felt to have deserted...
...Remember, we are the Anzac breed. Our men stormed Gallipoli. They swept through the Libyan Desert. They were the 'Rats of Tobruk.' . . . They were the men who fought under bitter, sarcastic, pugnacious [General Henry] Gordon Bennett down Malaya, and were still fighting when the surrender of Singapore came...
...Although few of the rumors that we have been hearing since the beginning of the war actually originated in Berlin," Gordon W. Allport, associate professor of Psychology stated yesterday, "all of them play right into the hands of enemy agents who, with the help of German propaganda, are constantly trying to infuse untrue reports to destroy our national unity...