Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small airport near Versailles, French police (disguised as mechanics) last week arrested Rabbi Baruch Korff of New York City just as he was about to board a private plane. Korff had planned to drop leaflets over England: "To the people whose Government proclaimed 'peace in our time,' this is a warning. Your Government has dipped His Majesty's Crown in Jewish blood and polished it with Arab oil. . . . We will carry the war to the very heart of the Empire...
Requiem. U.S. exports, which started to drop in June, fell another 7% in July, said the Department of Commerce, and are now down 19% from their May peak. The Department of Commerce expected exports to drop further as the world ran out of U.S. dollars. Latest dollar conservation move: Australia, following the British and French lead, imposed a ban on some 32 products ranging from washing machines to tires...
...adult life, easygoing Earl S. Tupper, 40, has described himself as "a ham inventor and Yankee trader." By last week, one of his inventions-an unbreakable, flexible, shape-retaining plastic which can be moulded into all sorts of containers-was forcing him to temper the "ham" and drop the "trader" entirely...
...Pullman Co., now owned by a group of 57 railroads, asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to boost all sleeping-car rates under $17.70 from 1% to 49%. The increases would amount to about $13 million a year. This, said the company, would be little enough considering the drop in annual revenues of $31 million compared with 1944, and a rise in costs of $26 million a year since 1942, the year of its last general fare boost...