Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Referring to your article "North Dakota v. 75 Nuns" [TIME, July 12] ... may I thank you and congratulate you on having stated our case with truth and understanding. As one of the nuns who taught in western North Dakota during the drought years of 1936-38, I am in a position to appreciate the current pro & con comments of the press...
...conferees had weightier matters than lumps of sugar to discuss, but the sugar symbolized how little progress toward real unity their five nations had made since signing the Brussels pact last March. In four months Western Union had gone a little way toward military integration, but hardly a step toward economic or political unity...
...counted as antiCommunist. Among officers the percentage is smaller because those with known democratic leanings have been purged. Some 1,200 officers have already been released or purged, including 25 of the 120 generals. About 14 generals have already escaped. Many, many more would like to escape . . . The western frontier is now more heavily guarded than at any time since the war. There are 45,000 police troops guarding the border and patrolling the Bohemian forests...
Under John Bracken, the P.C.s had tried to stable western progressives in the same stalls with eastern arch-Tories. It did not work. They had ended with a lacklustre program, not liberal enough to steal votes from Mackenzie King, not conservative enough for right-wingers. Last week many Conservative bigwigs were pinning their party's main hopes on a tested Tory, big, handsome Premier George Drew of Ontario. So far, the only other contender in sight was Saskatchewan's John George Diefenbaker, Tory gadfly of Parliament...
Puff, Puff. The big surprise was the railroads which, thanks to rate increases, were by & large chuffing along from slim profits into fat ones. For example, Baltimore & Ohio, with a half-year net of about $9,000,000, was up 73%. The Denver, Rio Grande & Western, with a net of $3,583,395, was up 260%. A major exception was Robert R. Young's Chesapeake & Ohio (see below), whose profits were nipped a third by the mine stoppage. Even the small, potato-hauling Bangor & Aroostook, which had not made money in any June since 1935, showed a profit...