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...might prove difficult. For the CCF is strongest among farmers, where the Liberals were losing popularity. And in keeping the CCF pleased, the Liberals would probably lose the rest of the country. Said the Ottawa Journal, "What we face ... is the danger involved in a dying government which can prolong its life only by the grace of the CCF-by progressive surrender to socialism...
...participate in the government and in the Chinese National Assembly scheduled for November. Said Information Minister Peng Hsueh-pei: "The Communist Party is now standing at a historical crossroads. . . . Do the Communists want to continue their attempts to seize political power by armed force? If so, they will prolong bloodshed and create chaos...
...this welter of stubbornness, tough talk and bad feeling, what could Mr. King do? If he stood firm on the 10? line, as his colleagues had done in his absence, he would just prolong the trouble. Yet if he agreed to the union's demand, and repudiated his colleagues, he might bring a rift in his own Cabinet. Best bet was that Mr. King, an old friend of labor and a skillful bargainer, would effect a compromise somewhere around 12½?. This might bring the resignations of hold-the-liners like the Prices Board's Donald Gordon...
...prolong the life of its batteries, station MOON would be clocked to broadcast only one minute in each hour. After landing, it would settle down to reporting local conditions. Compressing their findings on the radio wave, sensitive instruments (already highly developed by meteorologists) would feel for moisture and atmosphere. Thermometers would measure the violent temperature changes during the moon's month-long "day." Other instruments might report the effects of cosmic rays upon the moon. Carried back to earth by the radio wave, such information would give a new view of the sun's radiation, prime mover...
...tendency in the future should be to prolong the courses of instruction at the colleges . . . and to equip our young officers with that special technical professional knowledge which soldiers have a right to expect from those who can give them orders if necessary to go to their deaths. . . . Professional attainment, based upon prolonged study . . . are the vital needs of the commanders of the future armies, and the secret of future victories...