Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week cracks had begun to show in the hard German crust. By the fifth day the Americans could count their advances in miles instead of hundreds of yards...
This week Chrysler's Dodge Division announced that shipment to India of several thousand trucks of special design for the Road was begun in October. Presumably the Army wanted China to know that help was near. While the trucks waited Lieut. General Daniel I. Sultan last week had Bhamo surrounded, needed only 65 more miles to link India with the Burma Road. Because the Japs' main bodies had been forced toward south Burma, there was some reason to hope that the 65 miles might not be too long or too bloody...
...Government would instantly change the course of the war, now going heavily against the Chinese, or would immediately remove all the causes of the criticism which has been leveled at Chungking and Chiang. But Chiang had shown new resolution at a moment when even some of his friends had begun to wonder...
...wiliest moves was his beguilement of the working press. Argentina's newspapers (La Prensa, La Natión, La Razón), traditionally free, frank and influential, smarted under the strict censorship begun by the Castillo regime. Instead of lifting the restrictions, which might have been dangerous for the regime, Perón forced the publishers to raise their employes' wages...
Twenty years ago, when Ella Lonn's career as a scholar had barely begun, she lived in a boardinghouse in Bloomsbury, lunched on is. 6d. a day, spent most of her waking hours in the vast files of the Public Records Office in London. As in most of her work since then, she was traveling paths of history no one had traversed before...