Word: greatly
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...coal; 4) If Canada should choose to put a high tariff on "non-British coal" (i.e. on U. S. coal) she would first be retaliating potently upon the U. S., and second she would be in a position to buy nearly all her import coal from Great Britain, thus giving work to the thousands of jobless coal miners who form the bulk of Britain's unemployed...
...Minister King and numerous Canadian tycoons, including august Sir Henry Thornton, President of the Canadian National Railways. "I do not propose to tell the Canadian people how to carry on their business!" stoutly maintained Jim Thomas. "They know more about that than I do." But he added. "We in Great Britain would like a share in the orders now going to foreign countries. It is a mistake to assume that Governments know nothing of business. Personally I would like to see an Empire Economic Conference held in Canada before many months...
...many years ago Jim Thomas himself was tempted to take an executive, white-collar job with Britain's Great Western Railway. He had just led a successful strike. When the white-collar was proffered with a temptingly high salary Mr. Thomas went home and talked to his wife. According to an inspiring, legendary-tradition in the British Labor Party Mrs. Thomas said: "Jim, if you ever desert the union I will never speak to you again...
They discussed, drafted and signed, he declared, "a secret treaty establishing a military unity between the 'Little Entente' nations, thus raising the effective status of the group to the rank of a Great Power...
Amazed students of modern history had only a few hours in which to wonder whether Dr. Edouard Benes?co-founder of the Czechoslovak Republic with famed President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk? could possibly have tinkered together in secret the new three-in-one "Great Power." For the day after its revelation. Ceske Slovo announced that the entire story "must be considered as withdrawn." In all the "Little Entente" countries censorship was clamped on tight. None of the three Governments made an announcement or explanation. What could not be hushed up in the U. S. can and frequently is hushed in Central...