Word: com
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Churchill's urging, abruptly in 1944 switched to Tito on the grounds that Tito's Partisans were killing more Germans, and that some of Mihailovich's men were collaborating with the Germans. King Peter's Yugoslav government in exile in London was forced to recognize Com munist Tito. Mihailovich was later captured by Tito's Partisans, tried "for treason," and executed...
...drop of 10%. "Half our looms have no orders," said 37-year-old Ronnie Carter, manager of a weaving mill in the town of Padiham (pop. 12,000). "But we're lucky. Two of the town's ten mills have shut down com pletely." The immediate causes were obvious. Australia, Lancashire's best customer, last month slashed its imports of cotton cloth by 33%. In addition, uncertainty over whether the U.S. cotton surplus would be sold abroad at less than cost had led importers everywhere to cut back their textile orders in the hope of lower prices...
...thirds of the Wolverines are sophomores. Many of the varsity skaters are hoping that a quick lead will break their spirit. Center Frank Mahoney com- mented today that "if we can get a real jump on them, perhaps two goals, I think they may get rattled. Most of us played out there last year, though, and something like that shouldn't bother...
...Paris, where the Folies-Bergère ladies wear no blouses and streetwalkers are a major traffic menace, the puritanical elders of the famed Comédie-Française banned a production of Mrs. Warren's Profession, George Bernard Shaw's play about a British prostitute who at least solicited business in private. Rubbing more salt into the wounded realism of France's Shaworshippers, the Comédieans proclaimed that Mrs. Warren was "amoral," and her saga was "very bad and boring...
During the stormy 30's, when U.S.-Soviet relations were largely filled with acrimony, the staunchest friend of the United States in Moscow was probably Marshal Kliment E. Voroshilov, Minister of Defense and member of the Politburo. A non-com in the Czarist army, Voroshilov was made an officer by Trotsky's decree of August 13, 1918. His rise was phenomenal: reaching Defense Minister only six years later, he has ever since been among the half-dozen key men in the Moscow hierarchy. Quickly he came to close terms with William C. Bullitt, the first U.S. ambassador to the Soviet...