Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...urgent need of the government armies in Manchuria for ammunition and spare parts to use in their American arms and equipment is one which cannot be filled in a leisurely manner. It requires immediate action. President Truman should act at once as President Roosevelt acted after Dunkirk, when the British and French were desperately short of munitions. President Roosevelt then had certain stocks of the U.S. Army declared no longer essential for use by the Army. They could then legally be sold, and vast quantities were sold to Great Britain at approximately 10? on the dollar. We have hundreds...
Britons steeled themselves to hear news grimmer than any since Winston Churchill had offered them "blood, sweat and tears" after Dunkirk. At last Clement Attlee was to tell Britons what they had to do to save themselves from bankruptcy...
...London stockmarket tumbled sharply under the impact of the Empire crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS). A selling wave sent common stocks crashing down eleven points to 119 on the Financial Times index, their worst fall since Dunkirk. Even consols (British Government bonds), which are generally regarded by Britons to be as solid as the Rock of Gibraltar, sagged to a two-year low, then rallied slightly. The scare caused a shiver in Wall Street, where the ten-week long upswing in stock prices suddenly halted. The Dow-Jones industrial index dropped 3.85 points from the July high of 187.66. This week...
...memoirist rattles off Churchillian prose to his secretaries. Five ribbon-bound stacks of notes, diaries and outlines, one for each volume, lie on Winston Churchill's work table in his library at Chartwell. Early next year, it is hoped. Vol. I (probably covering the period up to Dunkirk) will appear in a weekly series in LIFE, and daily installments in the Times. Other installments will probably follow at six-month intervals, timed to dovetail with book publication by Houghton Mifflin...
Next day the newspapers did their patriotic best to make it a pugilistic Dunkirk. The Tory Daily Mail stout-fella'd: ". . . a Briton has once again proved his ability to 'take it' in the face of hopeless odds. . . ." The Laborite Daily Herald gave it the headline of the week...