Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Jimmy Gardiner supporters were in the field, promising freight rate adjustments to the Maritimes, cheap feed grains to Ontario farmers, federal financial aid for scores of community projects. In Quebec, they reminded French delegates that Jimmy was a steadfast opponent of conscription (in private-he followed the party in public) and that he fought what he terms the "thin wedge of Communism" of the CCF in Saskatchewan...
...R.A.F. together, and were made the official R.A.F. Quartet. Besides playing in shelters, at airdromes and in factories, they played a command performance at Buckingham Palace, and at the Potsdam conference. U.S. critics, who first heard them on a 60-concert tour of the U.S. in 1939, generally rate them among the top four or five quartets playing in this country. No other major quartet has stayed together so long...
Prospects of early price cuts in meat were also out. With an abundance of feed on hand, farmers this fall would hold back more than the expected number of animals for breeding and fattening, pushing the low rate of meat production still lower and prices still higher...
...fourth session of Canada's 20th Parliament had been a bore from the start. Its chief issues: the shortage of U.S. dollars, freight-rate increases, the $2,175,000,000 budget. All had been handled the easy way, by voting "yes" to the Cabinet's decisions. The high cost of living was talked about by everybody, then sidestepped; so was the touchy subject of Canada's ban on margarine...
Over the Moon. The Department of Agriculture predicted that meat prices, which hit a new high last month (295% of the 1909-14 average), would go even higher this summer and fall. Reasons: 1) a seasonal decline in the already low rate of production, 2) an "unusually strong" demand due to high consumer income...