Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...end, the outburst of penmanship had brought the refinery to a virtual standstill and produced 1,200 grievances. Only one appeared legitimate; a worker complained that his section of the plant was not properly ventilated. Others urged that the refinery negotiator be dumped in the nearby Houston Ship Channel, that the company provide workers with an on-the-job burlesque show; a third said that he got his pants wet from dew on weeds outside the refinery. Protesting that the union was pulling an illegal version of the sit-down strike, Crown Petroleum closed down the entire refinery for safety...
...Commons listened glumly while Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps read from eight pages of foolscap. Almost every one of the 20 minutes' worth was bad news. Britain's dollars were going down the drain too fast; $261,950,000 had been used up from the end of March to the end of June. Only $1,636,180,000 was left-well below the $2 billion reserve the British had considered the minimum for safety...
...continue its present passive attitude toward Asiatic communism. This is a well-worn track and needs no further exploration. It means a little money here, and a diplomatic note of protest there. It is easy, cheap -and useless. Judging by past experience, this policy would end with Communist domination of Asia...
...Americans could see the Russians in firing position across the border, and decided to leave the dead soldier where he lay. Next morning the body was gone, presumably carried off by the Russians under cover of darkness. The U.S. Army protested the border violation but by week's end no reply had been received from the Russians...
Under orders from SCAP to balance its budget, the Japanese government had decided to raise taxes, end subsidies to manufacturers and fire 270,000 government employees. To Sadanori Shimoyama, president of the Japanese National Railways Corp., fell the job of starting off the mass dismissals. Shimoyama joked with friends: "With these kubikiri [dismissals -literally, "neck cuttings"], I may get it in the neck myself...