Word: deliverance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cold France. In France, which normally imported two-fifths of its coal, the shortage is Europe's worst. During the occupation, the Nazis kept the French output at a peak of 42,000,000 tons a year by wooing the miners with double food rations. The French Government tried...
Under these restraints the leftists-and most of hungry, harassed Italy-chafed. U.S. and British policy had never seemed more out of touch with popular feeling. U.S. and British prestige had never seemed so low. Reported London's New Statesman & Nation: "Already a year ago the people were singing...
Said the U.S. Army Air Forces chief: Superfortresses, backed by Liberators, would deliver bombs to Japan at the rate of 2,000,000 tons a year. "We are going to do the same thing to industrial Japan that we did to industrial Germany. ... It requires the complete and utter destruction...
Busses. General Motors Corp. Truck & Coach Division delivered its first big batch of busses since war began. Seventy-five busses went to Manhattan and Chicago operators. G.M. had orders on hand for 5,632 busses, hopes to deliver 3,575 before Jan. 1.
A Question of Timing. Automen thought that WPB's conservative figures were close to the mark. They had to find the solution to more problems than the steel supply before they could count on fast-moving assembly line operations. Now auto manufacturers had a hunting license, but they still...