Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wanted: Macedonia. Macedonia lies on the northern shore of the Aegean Sea, between Turkish Thrace and the Albanian mountains. Bulgars, Serbs, Greeks have eyed it jealously ever since the breakdown of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th Century...
...South had to sell its cotton and other products abroad in order to get foreign exchange to keep its currency stable, just as China did. When the blockade shut off trade the South had to resort to the printing press and inflation resulted. It was this economic breakdown and lack of supplies as a result of the blockade which led to the weakening and defeat of the South more than any other single factor...
...commission last week as it had sailors in 1938. In that year its establishment numbered 109,065 officers & men. Last week the Navy announced that it had added 100,000 vessels (above the size of boats) to the 7,695 it had in commission on Dec. 7, 1941. The breakdown: 1,150 combatant ships; 557 auxiliaries; 82,266 landing ships and landing craft; the balance, patrol and mine craft...
Knut Hamsun, 85, Nobel Prizewinning Norwegian novelist (Growth of the Soil, The Road Leads On) and pro-Nazi intellectual, was reported to have suffered a nervous breakdown upon learning of the German collapse. Once before the old man was made ill by wartime: a stroke overtook him in 1942 when countrymen who had once loved his books mailed him thousands of dog-eared copies after he advised them to "throw away your rifles. . . " The Germans are fighting for us and now are crushing England's tyranny over us and all neutrals...
...Frank Hewlett, whose wife had stayed behind as a nurse when he left for Bataan and Corregidor with General MacArthur on New Year's Eve, 1941. Self-effacing Reporter Hewlett, in the middle of a long dispatch, reported simply: "I found [my wife] today, recovering from a nervous breakdown. . . . Her weight had dropped to 80 pounds. But I found her in excellent spirits. It was a reunion after years about which I do not want to think...