Word: exits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...persuade the British Labor government to recognize Mao Tse-tung. In British-held Hong Kong, trade with China skyrocketed. The artificial prosperity did not last. On the mainland, the Communists imposed confiscatory taxes on foreign enterprises, shut off trade, and while refusing to allow workers to be fired, denied exit permits to some 700 British nationals...
...that its members would sever trade ties and abandon all their assets in Red China-holdings worth more than $840 million. Most of the 700 British nationals in China-all that is left of a British trade colony that numbered 10,000-will probably ask the Communist government for exit visas. The firms will try to sell their assets to Chinese Communist agencies, but the Foreign Office fears that it will prove to be a dismal bargain sale...
...infirmary, complaining of illness. An attendant went for a doctor. Left alone in the room, John seized a blanket, made a beeline for an open window, dropped on to a shed roof, threw the blanket over a ten-foot wall and slid down to freedom. A villager spotted his exit and gave chase, but John eluded him. No siren alerted the village to the escape: the Ministry of Health does not believe in such devices. Soon afterward the lunatic, clad in a dapper pinstripe, was happily rubbing elbows with window shoppers in the village of Crowthorne...
...take West Side Drive into Henry Hudson Parkway, go through two toll gates, follow sign to Connecticut, turn right off highway on to Cross Country Parkway, continue about mile and half, follow sign Kimball Avenue, Bronxville, exit to right, left on Kimball Avenue, go straight, turn right on the Glen Washington Road...
Decoy. In Chicago, after an undercover man telephoned police headquarters to report that 40 men were playing poker and blackjack in a poolroom-saloon, Police Lieutenant George Mankowski raided the place with a flying squad, forgot to guard the rear exit, succeeded in nabbing only the undercover...