Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unseen in House of Commons lobbies in several years. Said one, noting that Thorneycroft was hanging on to most of his surplus: "If things turn out well, he can give more next year and even more the year after that. Remember, the year after that will be election year." Prime Minister Harold Macmillan agreed. "This is a plan for victory," he told Conservatives. "And the last of our three victory budgets will be better than the first...
Canadian voters, who have long anticipated a general election this spring, finally got a date. The Liberal government headed by Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent last week wound up its business in the House of Commons, dissolved Parliament, called an election for June...
...prime example of how productivity can be boosted in a short time with such cooperation was demonstrated at Chrysler. More than a year ago, with sales sagging and 45,000 of its 130,000 production workers laid off, Chrysler retooled and modernized its production lines, got tacit approval from the U.A.W. to increase output per man. Today, with 110,000 workers, Chrysler is making almost as many cars as in 1955. But this has also brought protests from union locals against the "speedup." To bring pressure on the corporation for a change in production quotas, the U.A.W. last week ordered...
...testimonial from the great Cardinal Newman himself. But by then he was in full rebellion against everything of a "stuffy" nature. Catholic or non-Catholic. He had begun to draw, paint, write stories; he yearned for action, detested orthodox stability, made the discovery that aristocrats and Jews were prime enemies of the people. "How I long for the Great War!'' he wrote in 1889. "It will sweep Europe like a broom, it will make Kings jump like coffee beans on the roaster...
...appointment ended a six-day crisis set off by Hussein's ouster of Prime Minister Suleiman Nabulsi, a moderate Leftist who headed the powerful National Socialist party. Nabulsi is included in the new Cabinet as a concession to the party, which controls 13 seats in the 40-man Parliament. But no other National Socialist is included...