Word: batch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese Embassy, another batch of luggage had just been moved in. A U.S. Army plane had brought Chungking's Prime Minister T. V. Soong and his new Foreign Minister Wang Shih-chieh to Moscow for a second series of talks with Molotov and Stalin. Better than anyone else, the Chinese visitors and their Russian hosts understood the full importance and impact of the Soviet declaration...
...higher strategy it was the end of Luzon. But down on the trudge-shoot-and-burn level it was far from over. Anywhere from 14,000 to 20,000 Japanese remained on Luzon, in four pockets besieged by some seven U.S. divisions. To the south, on Mindanao Island, another batch of Japs occupied the fighting time of two more divisions...
Busses. General Motors Corp. Truck & Coach Division delivered its first big batch of busses since war began. Seventy-five busses went to Manhattan and Chicago operators. G.M. had orders on hand for 5,632 busses, hopes to deliver 3,575 before...
Last week Pepsi-Cola quietly launched its biggest promotion of all by awarding the first of an annual batch of 117 college scholarships. The scholarships will pay tuition, fees, traveling expenses, and $25 a month for four years to two students from each state and the District of Columbia, plus 19 additional Negro students from the South. Winners were chosen through tests given to candidates elected by their own high-school classmates. A board of eleven, headed by Professor Floyd W. Reeves of the University of Chicago, has full control of the program. Pepsi-Cola is only putting...
Meanwhile Rumania's firing squads were oiling their rifles. The War Crimes Courts started with the first batch of 25 high Rumanian officers and officials. It was headed by ex-Premier General Constantin Sanatescu, formerly King Mihai's aide-de-camp. On the night of the coup d'état which overthrew the pro-Axis Government, General Sanatescu helped the King imprison Dictator Ion Antonescu in a vault built for ex-King Carol's stamp collection. Later, Sanatescu formed the first pro-Allied Government...