Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Much of the freight it hauled was chili peppers. That was how it got its name. But when busses and trucks began to compete, business on the Chili dwindled. Offi cials of the D.&R.G.W. asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to abandon the line. Permission was granted, and last week the mourners gath ered, and wreckers moved in to "roll up" the track...
...special position in North China. In return for this Japan would: 3) make peace with Chiang Kai-shek on a basis of American mediation, withdraw from all China south of the Yellow River and west of the Peking-Nanking line; 4) withdraw from South China and Indo-China; 5) abandon the southward drive. Nor was this all. Am bassador Nomura further was to seek restoration of normal U.S. -Japanese trade relations, Anglo-American recognition in principle of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, U.S. economic assistance to Japan...
Joint returns were dead as far as the committee is concerned. Also dead was the Treasury plan to abandon the average-earnings base in computing excess profits. The committee might shave surtaxes for the $5,000 to $20,000 group, will probably add some new excise taxes if only to have them on hand as bargaining points in wrangling with the House over broadening the income base. By merging last year's special defense tax with the surtax rate, the committee proposed to increase the lowest surtax rate from 5% to 6%, readjust upward the rate for higher brackets...
...Battle. German Intelligence had also studied PU-36. Reconnaissance had looked over the Smolensk area. In posthumous tribute to Marshal Tukhachevsky, the German commander in this area, Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, decided to abandon the fundamental pattern of Blitzkrieg -cutting as if with a knife through one strategic spot (as at Sedan) and then encircling. Instead he dug in, as if with a gigantic fork, sending five parallel prongs into the defense area. Each pair of prongs had to reduce island after island between them...
Frankensteen was persuaded to abandon Reuther, flop over to Addes' side; he was slated for a new office especially created: U.A.W. vice president. The radical element in U.A.W. was to be let alone. Communists in North American Aviation Corp., who two months before had engineered a wildcat strike (TIME, June 16) and defied U.A.W. and C.I.O. leaders, and whom the Reuther group wanted to hang and quarter, were to be given a thoroughgoing slap on the wrist. The whole program was to be labeled "harmony...