Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coal miners in the Ruhr produce less because they get less food. Italy's fruit and wheat would go a long way to boosting the morale of Ruhr miners and to raising their output. On the other side, German coal and steel would do a lot to improve northern Italy's industrial production...
...Orange Blood. Only ten years ago, on the Day of the Battle of the Boyne, Sir Basil Brooke, the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, had said some pretty harsh things about a people who make up 33% of his constituents. "Many of the audience employ Catholics," he said, "but I have not one about my place." The next July 12 Sir Basil recalled: "I recommended people not to employ Roman Catholics, who are 99% disloyal." (Meanwhile, down in Eire, Taoiseach Eamon de Valera was saying: "Ulster's rejection of an all-Ireland union is an outrage which Irishmen throughout...
...posts. His predawn raids, said Zervas, had been in the nick of time. The plot had been timed to support Russia at the United Nations; there Russia's Andrei Gromyko last week opposed the U.S. plan to set up a permanent border commission to watch Greece's northern frontiers...
...John Lewis' scowl was force of habit-or a victory too easily won. With almost cynical resignation the coal operators had caved in to his demands. U.S. Steel's Ben Fairless and Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal's George Humphrey had led the parade. All the northern operators had followed. This week with the southern, midwestern and western operators awaiting John L.'s pleasure, union and management lawyers sweated out the final details of a contract...
...approving nod from the Department of National Defense, Canada set out to look more closely at itself-particularly at the relatively unknown north. From Ottawa's Rockcliffe Airport, a Lancaster bomber, carrying cameras, thousands of feet of film and a crew of seven, took off for Churchill, in northern Manitoba. Other Royal Canadian Air Force detachments have been assigned to photograph Canada's uncharted wildernesses from the eastern slopes of the Rockies to the tundra wastes of the Northwest Territories...