Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days after he had sailed. (It was announced in Washington that if any flying were to be done, the President and Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes would fly in separate planes-so as not to hand the Presidency over to retiring Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau in the event of a fatal accident...
...event, Europe itself would have little say. Not since Charlemagne had the land between Russia and the Atlantic been so relatively weak-politically, economically, militarily. It lay, twitching but essentially passive, on the table. Three surgeons prepared to operate...
...Board report and announced that WPB is planning a postwar rationing system. Actually, WPB's survey was prepared for a special contingency: that Japan might be defeated in perhaps six months, before reconverted plants "are in full production and before military cutbacks have become fully effective. In that event, said WPB, the rationing prospects are as follows...
...power did not do what many an American thinks it did. It did not destroy German industry nor the potentials for a third world war. Airmen's explanation: "selective bombing" was never intended to destroy all industry. In any event, the host of Allied experts is gradually realizing that 70% of German industry, perhaps more, escaped the bombs...
...first time since the 1940 blitz, when German bombs drowned out a performance of Faust, London's Sadler's Wells Theater reopened last week. Opening night, the premiere of Benjamin Britten's tragic opera, Peter Grimes, was London's biggest musical event in five years...