Word: seale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forced by the threat of three of its own Ministers to resign from the Cabinet (Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin, Home Secretary Herbert Morrison, Lord Privy Seal Clement Attlee), Labor cooled off. The wealth conscription amendment was rejected...
...cement, cut costs 40%, saved time too. The cement-and-dirt pavement can scarcely be broken with sledge hammers, can easily absorb the pounding of Flying Fortresses, is expected to last over ten years. Air force engineers who developed it expect small cracks to appear during the winter, will seal the field with asphalt to prevent ice heaves...
Thus, according to Rudyard Kipling, sang the great sleek Callorhinus alascanus, the fur seal, of his summer home in the Bering Sea, the barren volcanic islands of the Pribilof Archipelago. To these islands each May the males come first, from their winter haunts in the north Pacific-huge, scarred 600-lb. bulls, full-coated three-year-old "bachelors." By the time the females arrive from the south with their pups, weeks later, the bulls have battled themselves ragged and bloody fighting for places to set up their harems on the rocky ledges of the rookery. Each bull takes some...
When the Pribilofs were bought by the U.S. as part of Alaska sealing was a profitable industry. By 1910, through leasing sealing rights on the islands, the U.S. had made $9,473,996, nearly one and a half times the price of all Alaska. And by 1911 the seal herds had shrunk from 2,000,000 to a scant 125,000. Then an International Convention was signed. Pelagic sealing- hunting seals in the water-was ended. The U.S. supervised seal hunting on the Pribilofs, turned over 15% of the proceeds to Japan, 15% of the furs to Canada. Since then...
Arriving by Clipper for a labor meeting, Lord Privy Seal Clement Richard Attlee exclaimed: "What, are they still here...