Word: transfers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blame the Tories for Canada's business slowdown and rising unemployment and to accuse them of mishandling relations with the U.S. Neither major party is remotely anti-U.S., but the Tories traditionally cherish stonger ties to Britain; soon after taking office, Diefenbaker called on. Canadians to transfer 15% of their U.S. purchases to British suppliers...
...appropriations group okayed the full $1,260,000,000,000 in new cash the President asked for. It also approved Eisenhower's request for authority to transfer 110 million in funds now available, and added 40 million to this amount...
...Offered to suspend nuclear weapons tests as part of a world-wide agreement based upon a foolproof termination of "the now unrestrained production of nuclear weapons . . . Since our existing weapons stocks are doubtless larger than yours, we would expect to make a greater transfer to peaceful-purpose stocks...
...Army's Research and Development section, bluntly revealed his "intuitive" feeling that Army Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor had reneged on an agreement to make him head of the U.S. Continental Army Command (with a fourth star for his shoulder). Furthermore, said Gavin, the Army had tried to transfer him to command of the U.S. Seventh Army in Europe (the same three stars), a step that was aimed at halting his ringing insistence that the Army's role was being whittled down...
...Wolfe and Sherwood Anderson--Wolfe a chaotic, massive, but overwhelmingly vital power, and Anderson a smaller, more controlled talent. Whereas Angel as a book has the solid core but lacks shape, Winesburg, despite its wellshaped phrases, has a weaker core. Therefore a stage craftsman can, by pruning and shaping, transfer and even intensify much of Thomas Wolfe; the only important element lost in making Angel into a play was the visible stagnation and oppressive boredom, which are communicable far more easily in a long novel than in a tight play. On the other hand, a craftsman working on Anderson...