Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...News Chronicle's reliable Derek Patmore wrote from Istanbul that the Lebanese capital and chief port, Beirut, had begun to rival Cairo as an Allied base. "The huge concentrations of United Nations troops in Syria and Lebanon seem to confirm the general feeling that attacks on the Greek Islands and the Dodecanese will take place in the near future." Besides "extremely important units of British and Imperial troops," there was in this theater a Greek army "fully equipped with the latest weapons and totaling 30,000 men. Supplies are pouring in from Egypt. It can now be revealed that...
...Allied air prospects are looking up. Australia's Prime Minister John Curtin, chronically on the defensive, announced last fortnight that the holding war was over, that the phase of attack had begun. General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters said last week that a new type of U.S. ship was in action: the air forces had received some Vultee Vengeance dive-bombers and the R.A.A.F. had used them to raid the Tenimber Islands 300 miles north of Darwin...
...citizen used to eat his food and talk about other things. Last week he was still well fed, but he had begun to talk of little else but food...
Need & Answer. The need for this type of international cooperation was amply demonstrated in North Africa, where the job of feeding the Axis-scourged countries has already begun (see cut). There the U.S. and Britain are learning to coordinate their relief activities; as the United Nations offensives widen, the problem will become worldwide...
...coal conferences, begun three months ago in Manhattan, dragged on & on in Washington's air-cooled Statler Ho tel. By now the miners and operators had run out of proposals and counterproposals ; they had even gone through all the jokes and small talk they knew. One day last week the conferees started pitching pennies. The hotel manager stopped that. The major coal-strike news of the week: Solid Fuels Administrator Harold Ickes slapped some $2,500,000 in fines on the miners for striking. Day later, presumably under White House pressure, he had the matter of the fines transferred...