Word: alling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To speed up Germany's recovery, the Western powers in 1947 raised the permitted level of steel production in West Germany to 10.7 million tons, and several hundred surplus plants were dropped from the category set aside for dismantling. The most recent working list covered 796 plants and parts...
No Useful Purpose. Of the 172 war plants in their zone, the British had dismantled all but 74. Britain's Ernest Bevin insisted (and his colleagues agreed) that the remaining 74 must be removed, too. But of the 320 surplus plants, 112 were still largely intact. It was in...
Borrowing from Ivan A. Krylov (1768-1844), the Russian Aesop, McNeil said: "It seems . . . that a poor serpent was unhappy because everyone was afraid of him, and he concluded that the fear was due to his unfortunate voice. So the serpent pleaded with Jupiter to give him the voice of...
"By and by, all the birds of the forest came creeping around, charmed. But no one came very near him.
For a while Vishinsky seemed licked. But a few hours later he rose and addressed McNeil. "It would be well," said he, "if you would confine yourself to English fables, for perhaps your repertory is more complete. You made the mistake of not studying all of Krylov. One fable is...