Word: novas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nova Politika...
...judges, editors and teachers continued. Zdenek ("the Red Grandfather") Nejedly, the new Minister of Education, declared: "Stalin's picture will return to the classrooms. This is not merely a matter of a picture, but a conception of national life." The newspaper Svobodne Slovo (meaning "Free World") was retitled Nova Politika ("New Politics"). Foreign publications (including TIME & LIFE) were banned. The Ministry of Information instructed foreign correspondents to stop "malicious distortion of news." When asked whether the Ministry was to be the only judge of what constitutes distortion, a spokesman replied with genuine wonder: "Who else...
...mountain wood lots that ring Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, it was Christmas-tree harvest time. During the summer, lanky Bruce Swinamer, 43, had been out spotting likely trees for the trade. Last week, his boss, a New Yorker named Willis ("Christmas Tree") Clark, checked into the Cornwallis Inn at Kent-ille, got set for the cutting of 125,000 balsams for the city market...
Clark was only one of several American tree-buyers busy in Nova Scotia. This year the province expects to ship 2,000,000 trees to the U.S., up 100,000 over 1946. The trees will find their way into homes as far away as Miami and St. Louis...
...Meteghan, Atlantic Shipyards (builders of wooden ships for two centuries) has plans for turning out small steel freighters, has already converted a wartime corvette into a freighter and passenger carrier. The biggest order to date: three 3,100-ton transports for the Argentine Navy. Never in peacetime have Nova Scotia's yards had it so good...