Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even as the nation good-naturedly shook hands with itself after the election battle, the realities of the world came crowding back. The Berlin airlift was clapped under new Russian pressures. The U.S.-supported Sophoulis cabinet wobbled and fell in Greece. Along the nation's East Coast a wildcat strike of longshoremen exploded into a full-scale tie-up. Then last week came the news that the whole Nationalist government in China faced collapse, that Nationalist China was fighting for its life on the Suchow front...
Outside of actual military intervention by U.S. forces in China, there was probably nothing the nation could do for the moment but wait and hope. Said the Washington official: "I have every sympathy for China, and God knows I'd like to see Communism rooted off the face of the earth. But what can we do at an hour like this? We couldn't even get anything started before this battle will be brought to a melancholy or a successful conclusion...
...press conference was like many that had gone before: there was little news. When the time came for questions and a newsman asked about his "golden moment" in Canadian public life, sober-sided Mackenzie King could not think of an answer. Said he: "I am proudest . . . of keeping this nation united." On questions about the new cabinet and the next election, King was his artful self in saying nothing. "I have been advised to avoid controversial issues," he said...
This week, the man who, in his years in the East Block, had made Canada a nation, was driven to Rideau Hall, residence of Governor-General Viscount Alexander of Tunis. There he handed in his resignation. Liberal Leader Louis St. Laurent was named to take his place. Then Mackenzie King rode home with his memories to the peace & sepulchral quiet of cavernous Laurier House...
...northeastern seaboard, upwards of a million people will follow the game by radio and television, with Harvard and Yale men across the nation receiving joint reports through news tickers provided by alumni associations and clubs of both colleges...