Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ministers' Table." After lunch, he is in his office until about 6:30. Except on the hottest days St. Laurent works with his coat on. It is an unwritten rule that the 44 members of his staff shed theirs only when the P.M. is in shirtsleeves. He writes ten to 20 letters a day, receives an average of five visitors, places his own telephone calls, starts the conversations with a crisp: "St. Laurent here...
...Laurent's law firm occupied ten rooms in the Price Building, Quebec City's only skyscraper. St. Laurent was elected president of the Canadian Bar Association and ranked by lawyers throughout the country as one of the three best in Canada...
...ten months as Prime Minister, Louis St. Laurent, no man to show his hand, has dropped a few hints of what Canada can expect from him during his five-year term as his country's leader. On Parliament Hill, top-level government men have already labeled him "the most efficient Prime Minister Canada ever had." He has speeded up the poky, 19th Century office routine of Mackenzie King. Decisions come down so fast that his aides often worry that St. Laurent is too hasty. Cracked one: "What Mr. King needed was an animator; what St. Laurent needs is a brake...
...between 19 and 50, called up four classes of former conscripts. In a radio broadcast Acting President Urriolagoitia thundered: "If necessary, I myself will fight in the streets ..." A force of 2,000 loyalists converged on Cochabamba. Two days later, the city fell at a cost of less than ten casualties, and the government spoke confidently of isolating the rebel stronghold at Santa Cruz...
Only about one out of ten Americans has ever gone to college, but almost all of them have ideas on the subject. Last week FORTUNE gave its summary of their views. With Pollster Elmo Roper, and an advisory board of educators, it had just completed a nationwide survey probing into everything from costs to Communism and coeducation...