Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the foreign diplomats still assigned to Nationalist China hurried from Canton to Hong Kong. The British crown colony alerted its 40,000-man garrison, waited nervously for the arrival of the new Red neighbors. Hong Kong authorities let it be known that they were eager to resume trade with and air service to Canton just as soon as its new Communist masters said the word...
...nominating the man Liberals hated most, Conservatives had made sure that Colombia would see as bitter a campaign as any in modern times...
...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...
...Early Start. To get around this financial track block, most Canadians agreed that hearty, burly (6 ft. 4 in., 240 Ibs.) Donald Gordon was probably the best man to have at the throttle. A Scottish immigrant boy, he got a job at 15 as a clerk in the Bank of Nova Scotia. At 34 he was picked as first secretary of the new Bank of Canada, became deputy to Governor Graham Towers three years later...
...slave economics, the South was resorting to "book-burning, the censorship of the mails [and] the gradual illegalization of dissent." Adds Schlesinger: "When a society based on bond slavery acts to eliminate criticism ... it outlaws what a believer in democracy can only regard as the abiding values of man...