Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Wail. Let the Democrats nominate Ike as a nonpartisan, cried Pepper. Let Ike write his own platform, pick his own running mate. Let him be a "national" President, free to choose anyone, Democrat or Republican, for his administration. In short, let Ike go before the country as a Man-on-Horseback-who would, incidentally, carry the rachitic Democratic Party to safety...
...less than a month, the national convention of the Liberal Party would meet -to pick a party leader to succeed retiring Mackenzie King. Hats began to go into the ring. Short, scrappy Agriculture Minister James Gardiner last week announced: "I have agreed that those who think I would make a suitable leader for the party might place my name in nomination...
Attracted by gravitation, they flash down to the center of the star, releasing enormous energy. The reaction may spread in a short time through most of the mass of the star. The energy released is enough to blow off the star's outer layer. All that remains, according to this theory, is a small, dense core of neutrons and a vast shell of flaming gas that burns itself out in a few months of splendor...
...time this movement got under way, birds had already evolved into modern types. Dr. Wolfson thinks that some of them had learned to make comparatively short seasonal migrations between feeding and nesting places, that generation after generation, for millions of years, they stuck to the same routes. New oceans appeared and widened under their beating wings. New mountains reared up. The climate changed as glaciers crept forward, then melted. The birds, more steadfast than the earth, kept to their ancient flight plan, though their journeys became much longer than at first and twice as long as need...
...years the Federal Trade Commission poked and jabbed at heavy industry's . basing-point system ,of pricing. Under that system, producers absorbed enough freight costs to "meet competition" in areas distant from their mills, added "phantom freight" costs on some short-haul sales. Thus they got to identical prices at any given destination. Last April, the Supreme Court upheld FTC's charge that such identical prices added up to trustlike collusion. The court ordered the defendants in the case, the cement industry, to drop the basing-point system. The order went into effect last week...