Word: executioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Economically, said the communiqué, "primary emphasis shall be given to the development of agriculture and peaceful domestic industries." The fact that agriculture was placed first did not mean that Germany was to be completely de-industrialized. Perhaps the most significant point in the Potsdam communiqué was its provision...
"Widespread robot-bomb devastation, and the pressing need for clearance of areas, makes the immediate execution of a new housing program imperative," Finer continued. "Since the demand is so acute, the government will make socialized housing its first major step. In reality this will not be such a radical innovation...
Though the intellectuals of 18th Century England mapped out an Age of Reason, God did not altogether concur in their plan. He continued to turn out many odd and upsetting creatures-parsons who were hanged, poets who went mad, lords who started riots, scholars who drank ink, dukes who lost...
Last Fling. In Philadelphia, where they infested the parks, diseased pigeons that had been scheduled for extermination were granted a three-month stay of execution.
On the Chinese side, Generalissimo Chiang streamlined the command of his field forces, began to clean up the worst abuses of a chain-gang system of local conscription. Now the Generalissimo works out basic strategy with Wedemeyer, transmits his orders directly to his field commanders. Wedemeyer informs McClure and McClure...