Word: auge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time last week, it looked as if Dave Beck had finally made it. As everybody expected, Uncle Dan made him the union's executive vice president-the crown-princely post which Tobin and Beck created at the last Teamsters' convention (TIME, Aug. 25). Teamster courtiers were sure that this was it; the boys were even trying to figure out who would get Dave's mahogany-paneled office in Seattle, where he rules a Teamster duchy of eleven western states...
...Atomic Energy Commission announced this week that it had picked shell-blasted Eniwetok atoll, just west of Bikini in the Marshall Islands chain, as its Pacific proving ground for atomic weapons (TIME, Aug...
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin left last Aug. 19 for his Black Sea retreat, Sochi. He has not yet returned from his longest vacation in years. However, the machine that carries out his will never rests. Last week world Communism was still gaining in power on several fronts, notably China; but it was sharply checked in the crucial battle for Europe...
...Next Summer? So far U.N. has made little provision to deal with armed disturbances. The U.N. plan calls for withdrawal of British troops by Aug. 1, 1948 (London said this week that they would probably leave sooner). After that the plan entrusts the policing of Palestine to Jews and Arabs themselves, in their assigned areas...
...came out, smiling. Said he: "Grau is content with my conduct before the Senate." In the Senate, Labor Minister Prio Socarrás had been called on the carpet last week to explain why he threw the Communists out of Havana's Labor Palace last August (TIME, Aug. 11). He told the Senate that the Reds were a fifth column for Russia, that they did not belong in the Labor Palace and that they did not represent Cuban labor. By the time he had finished almost everyone but the Communists seemed satisfied. Prio hoped that his Senate success...