Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Others had. Passionate Internationalist Edgar Ansel Mowrer, for instance, who last February had resigned from his job as deputy director of OWI to conduct an uninhibited newspaper column on world affairs, submitted the hottest : "This Pravda piece means simply the breakdown of Anglo-American diplomacy." And the Moscow edict may indeed have been a unilateral P.S. to the Teheran communi...
...first six months last year, train accidents were up 32% over the same period in 1942, to a new high point of 8,209. What is equally significant, those caused by breakdown of equipment were UP 39%, those caused by improper maintenance up 47%. The grand total for all classes of accidents: 28,857 people injured (2,429 passengers on trains, 21,835 em' ployes on duty, the rest trespassers, etc.), 2,349 killed (41 passengers on trains, 491 employes on duty, the remainder trespassers...
...breakdown at Khersoi would throw the Germans back to the Bug River, further imperil the troops still entrenched within the Dnieper bend. It looked like the beginning of a hard winter for Germans...
...neglect may be higher. In a fact-packed report on transportation the Truman Committee last week bluntly warned WPB and the Services that no further miracles could be expected from the overworked, undersupplied carriers. Only a generous quantity of new equipment and replacement parts can prevent a critical transportation breakdown...
Died. Colonel Van Santvoord Merle-Smith, 54, until last August General Douglas MacArthur's Executive Intelligence Officer, peacetime yacht-skippering investment banker; three months after a breakdown induced by heavy South Pacific staff work; in Cove Neck, N.Y. Princeton '11, Harvard Law School '14, he won the D.S.C. as a World War I captain (later he was a major) of the 165th Infantry...