Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor used a telling argument at the hustings: a Labor Parliament needed Labor councils to carry out Labor policy. Then, in the words of its slogan, it could go "full steam ahead." When the votes had been counted in the 182 biggest metropolitan and provincial boroughs, Labor had brushed aside most of its opposition to win 2,977 seats (a gain of 1,245). Conservative strength slid from 1,595 seats to 835, Liberals from 245 to 111. Communists upped their standing from...
...second time in less than four months, Britons had given Labor the clearest of green lights. Now it could go full steam ahead to socialism...
...almost any gauge, Notre Dame has worked up enough steam to press West Point's pants. But Army is a clear favorite with experts and public alike. The 1945 Cadets look and act just as unbeatable as 1944's unbeatables (who laid down a 59-0 barrage that was the worst beating in Notre Dame's history...
...rich Lake Superior region, the steam shovels are biting close to the bottom of the vast open-pit iron ore mines, including those in the famed Mesabi Range. Within 17 years the steel industry will have to depend on low-grade iron ores...
Perhaps some of the U.S. people were ready to, but their representatives in Congress were not. The House promptly passed the Senate resolution for a full investigation (TIME, Sept. 17), after the Democratic steam roller had beaten off an attempt by Republicans to give them equal representation on the investigating committee. After that, the G.O.P. abandoned its effort to continue the inquiry through the 1946 elections. The committee (six Democrats, four Republicans) must now report by next...