Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which is near Hitler's Berchtesgaden eyrie. Strauss refused. As an old man of 80, he said, he felt entitled to privacy and peace. Nazi officials took the matter to Hitler himself. The Führer declared that Strauss's recalcitrance would mean the cancellation of his birthday celebrations throughout the Reich. Strauss replied that Hitler could cancel anything he wished, and added: "It was not I who started this...
When terminating war contracts, he added, the government might find it profitable in the long run to purchase unneeded war material or cancel contracts only in part so as to prevent an immediate slump in the national economy...
...believes that the job can be done more expeditiously with legislation, such as the George-Murray bill (TIME, Feb. 21). For many contracts being settled now are merely bookkeeping transactions. The Army will cancel one contract and let a new contract to the same company for about the same amount...
...Next Best Thing." Said an Allied diplomat: "This is the next best thing to giving us bases." Moscow's tone was tough and belligerent. The Government's Izvestia said that Japan had promised to cancel the Sakhalin concession early in 1941, failed to keep her word. Said Izvestia scornfully: there were some Japanese politicos who had bet on Hitler's victory, "but the Red Army's successes and the developing war operations of our allies have played their role. A sobering up had to come...
From his Philadelphia headquarters to 100,000 subscribers in cities of more than 25,000 population went an urgent plea: cancel your subscription temporarily so a food-producing farmer may have your copy, "to get the Farm Journal into the hands of those who could get the greatest value out of it." FJ's pledge: to resume subscriptions after the emergency for the number of months paid (at 50^ for two years...