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...which killed its engine and all but swamped it, too. Captain Cronk took the Bibb over to the swamped launch. As passengers began to be washed out of it, seamen leaped into the water for them; others reached out from life nets over the cutter's side to haul them to safety...
...reason for all this was a familiar one: the chronic freight-car shortage had become critical again. There were not enough cars to haul coal, wood, oil as fast as they could be produced...
...investigation would hardly stretch the bottleneck fast enough. And a hard winter would squeeze down and close many a plant. The likeliest solution was Government allocation of steel. Though they dread the effect allocation would have on their markets, many steelmakers, who need cars as badly as anyone to haul coal and ore, privately thought that allocation was the only...
Privately, top-flight officials admitted that restricting imports would be a form of economic nationalism and a bar to the freer, multilateral trade that Canada seeks for the long haul. "It's shocking-horrible," said one, "but we're doing it only as a last resort and we're going to make it as temporary as we can. Meanwhile, we aren't headed for anything like British austerity. We'll cut down, but we'll still get by and have a good time...
...King's job. A brilliant lawyer and a respected politician, with a full grasp of both French and English, St. Laurent has only one political handicap: his age. He is 65, and cannot be expected to be Prime Minister for more than a few years. For the longer haul, the Liberal Party must find a younger...