Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LONDON--The "war of oil" spread over larger areas of Iraq today after a breakdown of neutral peace feelers when British bombers blasted destructively at Iraqi military positions and weakened the five-day-old siege of Habbaniya air base...
...Mediation Board panel (Davis, C.I.O.'s Clinton Golden, Standard Oil's Walter Teagle), convinced that the President's proposal was fair, put the blame for the breakdown squarely on the Southern operators. In their final report board members declared...
Whereas in World War I the "submarine menace" was the only thing to fear, the threat this time has come from all these new factors. A recent breakdown of British sea losses by cause...
...along as delightfully as in Chapter I. But the planning itself begins dubiously and ends with the grim words, "a diversity about fundamentals is intolerable." With this destruction of individualism, Noah Wells makes clear the fact that Noah Lammock has become "an overwhelming menace." The rest is almost unmitigated breakdown. God plays the harmonium, Lammock preaches, underfed rhinoceroses lie about "like huge unpacked leather bags," the whole voyage disintegrates into weak comic strip. At length God identifies the Jonah, the unstrainable fly in the human ointment. He is "the essential treacherous cunning in man, the 'save...
...genuine reporter of world events and become a propaganda sheet for the subversive forces which are wrecking civilization throughout the world, our own country included. It was these same forces whose work your magazine is doing which were responsible for the Red hell in Russia, the breakdown in Italy, the collapse in France, the Red horror in Spain, now happily crushed but at fearful cost, for the present plight of England, for Hitler's regime in Germany as a counteroffensive and for the economic misery, confusion and breakdown in our own country. Hitlerism, which you profess to hate...