Word: threshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Confederation, the Dominion government has spent only $79 million on peacetime highway construction, mostly on a dollar-for-dollar basis with the provinces as make-work in hard times. This fall's conference will thresh out how to charge off the estimated $400 million needed to put a cross-Canada route into shape. It will also try to agree on a route...
...offered to sit down with the Russians and thresh out the differences on the occupation of Berlin-but not unless the Russians first lifted their blockade...
...Brussels, the finance ministers of the five met to thresh out the economic aspects of their alliance...
...Saturday the 30-add delegated will thresh out such problems as the extent of administrative control over student newspapers and year-books and student reluctance to go to the polls in college elections...
...industry; a budget cut to speed the purge of "unreliable" civil servants; an order empowering shop committees to dictate a purge of industrial employees; transfer of the best Rumanian Army corps to the Communist-run Ministry of Interior; purge of several thousand Army officers; an order that peasants must thresh their grain in the presence of Government officials to prevent widespread hoarding...