Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...north of the Yangtze River, and he had to return there to defend it. Last week the withdrawing movement gave the Chinese the big prize of Wenchow, ancient treaty port on the east coast. Its occupation increased the Chinese-held coastline to 280 unbroken miles. Another and bigger prize, due to fall momentarily, would be Liuchow, onetime U.S. air base...
...due for a rest. After that, he was due for the shore-based post now held by Aubrey Fitch: Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air, little more than an administrative post-unless he got the new job which airmen hoped he would...
...House last week approved U.S. participation in the Bretton Woods monetary program. On the final vote, party lines dissolved: 138 Republicans joined with 205 Democrats (and two minor party members) to pass, the bill, 345-to-18. (The dissenters were all G.O.P. bitter-enders.) The overwhelming vote was due to: 1) educational spadework by the Treasury Department; 2) sure-footed maneuvering by Speaker Sam Rayburn; 3) sober second thoughts by Republican House leaders. The nonpartisan character of the vote prompted a happy comment from President Truman: Congress would really be ready for the peace treaty...
Obviously the Progressive Conservative triumph was due less to a decline in CCF popularity than to a record outpouring of Progressive Conservative voters...
Labor, sticking to the view that the failure of markets to keep industry busy is largely due to "oversaving" by business and by individuals of the higher income groups, would scale its tax reductions so that the low income groups would be the chief beneficiaries. It proposes individual tax exemptions that would free a family of four from all taxes on incomes up to $2,750. But it also proposes to raise $12 billion (about ten times prewar) from the individual income tax-which would mean that tax rates in upper brackets could be reduced very little. It proposes...