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...Gamble. Geologists have long known of the vast iron ore riches in the trough straddling the border of Quebec and Labrador. When Dominion Geologist A. P. Low talked about the deposits 50 years ago, Mesabi was just coming into its own, and nobody was interested in the subArctic wilderness. In 1937, when Quebec Geologist Joe Retty came out of Ungava with a more detailed report of high-grade iron ore, Mesabi was still king. But as war demand cut deep into Mesabi, Retty's reports became more interesting. By 1942 Hollinger President Jules Timmins was ready to gamble...
...defy constituted authority, all you have left is anarchy. Student expression has been allowed to run wild here over a period of years. We're not against student expression, but it must run through channels." And faculty critics were worse: "You can't feed at the trough and pull the bung out at the same time . . ." In his convocation address, Ashby promised to use DDT on erring faculty and students...
...Leche-Long ticket won, but afterward nobody had time for Earl. The gang rushed to the public trough and swilled up wealth with porcine delight. Leche, a fat and jolly man, built himself a mansion on the exclusive St. Tammany "Gold Coast." George Caldwell, an even fatter man, who was construction supervisor for the burgeoning L.S.U. campus, built an even better one-its bathroom boasted 14-karat gold fixtures. Not to be outdone, Abe Shushan, president of the New Orleans Levee Board, built a mansion...
...Cooked." TIME Correspondent Mary Barber watched part of the battle from a brigade command post in Fort Nestorion, overlooking Hill 1291, the day's objective in that sector. Cabled Barber: "Down below, Nestorion's main square was packed with ambulances, trucks and jeeps. In the horse trough near the spring, peasant women were washing out used field dressings and the stained water flowed over the cobblestones. In the church, the village priest was reading the burial service over eight soldiers who had died in the morning's fighting on Hill...
Cuban dopesters figured that Prio, so long as he gave the country good government, need not worry about Batista. A first and major job: driving the grafters from the public trough. When well-meaning friends like Eddy Chibas had gone to Grau and said, "Doctor, they are stealing," the idealistic President had refused to believe it. Prio knows better...