Word: humps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This threat had stirred slow-moving Labor Minister "Hump" Mitchell into last-minute activity. Five days before the strike, the Minister announced to a dumfounded Parliament that the Government had seized the three plants. Only an hour's notice was given the union: even less was given management. But the Government was too late, and offered too little...
...such increase in the national pattern, as the U.S. had done with18½?. Rather than add to inflation by raising wages and then prices, as the U.S. had done, Canada still seemed to prefer to hold the line everywhere. There was but one significant concession: Labor Minister Humphrey ("Hump") Mitchell said that henceforth "just and reasonable" wage increases would be approved...
Some Canadians were not so sure that such a policy was enough. Last week the influential Conservative Toronto Globe & Mail angrily let fly at "Mitchell's muddling." Cried the paper: "The Labor Minister has bungled at every step! . . ." The next few weeks looked hellish for Hump-and maybe for Canada...
Nebraska's G.O.P. candidate for governor was a World War II veteran with an impressive Scandinavian name: Frederick Valdemar Erastus Peterson. As a lieutenant colonel of the Army Air Forces, 42-year-old Val Peterson spent 24 months in the CBI Theater, supervised air-freight movements over the Hump into China. But unlike many other veteran candidates, he was no newcomer to state politics, nor did he wave the bloody shirt...
They crossed Aberdeen Angus, Shorthorn and Hereford stock with buffalo. The offspring were called cattalo. First generation cattalos looked like king-sized cattle with a marked shoulder hump. By the third generation the hump had been bred out, reproduction bred in. So crossbreeding was dropped for straight cattalo-raising...