Word: cancel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This famine endangers the Tito regime so that the Marshal will have to import $50,000,000 in foodstuffs if he is to avoid mass starvation in Yugoslavia. He will be forced to cancel a large grain export program with which he hoped to earn money for the purchase of machinery. Discontent is already growing on the countryside; only two weeks ago starving peasants in the village of Selo burned local government headquarters. Similar outbreaks may convince Russia that the time is ripe to bring Yugoslavia back into the Cominform fold by getting rid of Tito and the Titoists...
...weeks ago a television set was just about the fastest selling luxury item on the marked. But suddenly last week sales virtually halted, and across the country there was a rush to cancel previous orders for sets. One manufacturer even decided to stop producing TV sets and made plans to convert to glass processing instead...
Conant was stricken with an intestinal inflammation shortly after June Commencement and was immediately operated on. The operation forced the President to cancel a summer trip to Europe...
...hookey-playing professor has forced the Department of Geology to cancel the one course he was scheduled to give this term...
...provided just about half of all the horsepower used by the combined U.S. air arms. Last week Fred Rentschler was ready to do the incredible once more. To 15,000 workers in Pratt & Whitney's main plant at East Hartford, Conn., he sent out an emergency message: cancel all vacations, stand by for big military orders...