Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just before the Tories convened, Lord Beaverbrook, most powerful of Tory publishers, splashed across his front pages his own ten-point program for Britain's salvation. His main points: ¶ All-out effort for empire self-sufficiency ("The empire comes first . . . Without the empire not only is there no hope for the future-there is no future"). ¶ A minimum wage of ?6 ($16.80) for British workers, but at the same time "no limitation on dividends. Pioneers should be encouraged to go into . . . new industries...
...longer called merely-or mainly-for a railroad operating man. Canada's most imposing example of government-operated business had become too big for that. Since C.N.R. was formed in 1923 out of the ruins of five separate lines, it has grown into a $2.4 billion empire which operates 24,178 miles of main track, twelve hotels, three steamship lines, an airline (TransCanada) and a nationwide telegraph service. It has become Canada's biggest employer (some 111,000). In recent years, C.N.R. has earned money on its operations, but, except for the war years, has seldom shown...
President Conant will address the freshman class in the main dining of the Union tonight...
...smaller rooms which ad-joined the main part of the old library will now serve as music and game rooms, equipped with victrola, plane, records, and bridge and parlor gams facilities...
These two talks are part of a special series of free lectures being presented this fall, and are not connected with the law School Forum's main series...