Word: simmer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Work to be Done. Donald Nelson hoped his realignment would stick. Some problems were left on the stove to simmer. One is a serious transportation jam, but he could do little with it. For Transportation Chief Joe Eastman has no status on WPB, must work round about. Another is Harold Ickes' separate jurisdiction over petroleum. Authority over electric power rests with six different Federal agencies. Plant expansion has to be checked again, lest there be more factories than materials to feed them...
...some 38,000 men mining gold. Officially, Canadians maintain that gold is essential to their war effort; unofficially they are not so sure. In the great Ontario Kirkland Mines District (which produces 16% of Canada's gold) a C.I.O. strike for union recognition has been allowed to simmer for six weeks with no visible Government intervention. With some 70% of the laborers idle, the District has seethed with rumors that they would be shifted to strategic base-metal mines, and that gold-mining taxes would be upped in the next budget. Already Canada has stopped pampering its gold mines...
Prime Minister Peter Fraser brought the stew back to a simmer last week, postponed the elections for a year "on account of the war situation...
...leaves, 8 whole allspice, 6 cloves, 2 lemon slices, ½ tsp. salt, ¼ tsp. pepper, unflavored gelatin, horseradish sauce. Directions: skin and clean eel. Cut on bias into 1-inch lengths. Cover with cold water, heat to boiling, skim and add remaining ingredients except gelatin. Simmer until eel is tender, about 1 hour...
Displaying beautiful teamwork halfway round the world, Messrs. Menzies and Fadden did what they could to simmer the crisis down. Mr. Menzies dictated and Mr. Fadden seconded a put-up-or-shut-up appeal to the Laborites to join up in the National Government. Then the Prime Minister saw to it that Australian Lieut. General Sir Thomas Albert Blarney was quickly upped to second-in-command in the Middle East under General Sir Archibald Wavell...