Word: exits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Germans took over U.S.companies, along with almost everything else in France in June 1940, they expected to stay quite a while. Methodically they deposited the profits they made from these companies in two German banking houses in Paris. When they made a hasty exit four years later, they left the accounts intact, the bookkeeping clear. So last week the French Government had good news for some U.S. firms...
...chance were any of you in the neighborhood of the tunnel exit yesterday? Or the bridge ramp this side? A disgusting spectacle. Here were hundreds of American cars, lined up bumper to bumper, coming to Windsor for just one thing. Gas. The Government allows each 'tourist' twelve gallons. All he has to say is that he's going to Tilbury or Stoney Point or Leamington or North Bay. ... He gets the little book...
...Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo when she was 14 and toured the world with it. Her roles got better, but her pay ($50 a week) did not-and she finally walked out. Three years ago, as a member of the Sol Hurok troupe, she made another ballet exit-when the Government refused to let her go to California because of her Japanese blood. Sono, who has a brother with the Nisei 442nd combat team and is married to a young French-Moroccan architect, has never had any other trouble over race...
...77th Divisions. All the Japs east of the corridor were cut off, and although some would filter back to the northwestern peninsula, they would have little hope of survival or escape. For the 77th turned west and soon brought Palompon, the Japs' last port of exit, under its guns...
...what fear was like. It came in the middle of a bright, moonlit night while Captain Bliven was working in a command tent. When a stick of bombs exploded close enough to shake the tent and rock the lights, the occupants grabbed their helmets and made for the exit. The third series of blasts found Captain Bliven groping through the canvas passageway...