Word: lesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the CRIMSON learned on December 2 that Lester Cramer was trying to revive the lucrative trade he enjoyed before the war, the editors decided to send a man around to investigate...
...leading, candidate was the External Affairs Department's experienced, able Under Secretary Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson. No, said Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Canada needs him at home. The next suggestion was General Andrew G. L. McNaughton. But the P.M. thought that McNaughton had his hands full as Canada's atomic-energy specialist. Then the P.M.'s advisers proposed Dana Wil-gress, former ambassador to Russia. Just the man, the P.M. thought-until he learned that Wilgress, now at the I.T.O. meeting in Havana, was exhausted and would not accept the job. Other candidates...
...rate of 14,174,000 tons, was higher than in any previous November on record. A Nottinghamshire shawl-making firm using century-old handlooms had increased its export production by 150%. "We just decided to work longer hours to make more shawls," explained 76-year-old ex-Miner Johnny Lester. And thanks to the efforts of others like Johnny, national production of cotton and rayon yarns has risen higher (17,940,000 pounds in one week) than at any time since...
...high cost of living put the Federal Government's H.C.L. expert out of business. Lester S. Kellogg, who was making $8,500 a year as chief of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' prices-cost-of-living branch, resigned, accepted an executive job with a farm-machinery manufacturer...
...said he had three alleged Communists still on his payroll. He named .them as Stewart, Trumbo and Lester Cole...