Word: highnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was scarcely a Communist leader in the Russian satellite countries who in 1949 had not been reported under Moscow's suspicion and on the verge of death or demotion. Nobody in the West could be quite sure who was in high favor or in hot water. Western observers thought that the likeliest purge candidates for 1950 were Rumania's Ana Pauker (who was conspicuously absent from the last Cominform conclave), Czechoslovakia's President Klement Gottwald and Foreign Minister Vladimir dementis...
...back on its feet. New wartime industries provided a market for Alberta coal. Premier Manning was scarcely responsible for all Alberta's good fortune, but Albertans gave him credit for making the most of it. In the 1944 election, they returned Manning's party to its alltime high of 51 legislative seats. Just when the war boom began to peter out, the great new oilfields at Leduc and Redwater surged in. Manning smothered the opposition with another landslide...