Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statistics. In the Quebec wilderness, 325 miles north of Montreal, Canadian National Railways is building a $35 million line to Chibougamau, a newly developed copper field. At Hamilton, Ont., the big Steel Co. of Canada, which has spent $100 million on new mills since 1950, reported with rueful pride that it was a full year behind on some orders -and promptly laid on an additional $70 million expansion program. Western oil production increased nearly one-third during the year, and great new developments for Canada's petroleum industry lay right ahead: a $350 million pipeline eastward...
Their end seemed inglorious, yet the splendor and pride of their campaign clung to Merrill and his Marauders. His own brilliant Army career cut short when a third heart attack in Manila forced his retirement as a major general in 1948, Merrill was always acutely conscious of what his men had undergone. He attended their annual Labor Day reunions religiously, wrote them letters all year round, kept them out of trouble, lent them money...
Last week's merger of old rivals, amid the peace and plenty of the 1955-model U.S. they helped to forge, had about it a pride in the long way traveled from weakness to strength. Said Walter Reuther, ending the C.I.O.'s 17th and final convention a few days before: "We have brought sunshine into the dark places of America...
Meanwhile, he takes pride in such signs of success as the recent elections at the big Someca auto-parts plants where two of his missionaries worked for a year: for the first time the Communist C.G.T. lost to the Christian Workers Union...
...easy to see why these Diaries have lain so long like buried treasure. They tell a story that must still be painful to Mormon pride; they dig up terrible incidents that many would rather forget. And yet, thanks to the quality that was in John D. Lee, and thanks to the healing march of time, no American can read these Diaries without thrilling to the roughhewn courage and tenacity that is written in every page of them...