Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gestation of a Fifth International had scarcely begun when the old quarrels-and some new ones-broke out among the confused legions of the Left...
...Paris, right-wing Socialist bigwigs sputtered that Nenni, "like Harold Laski," talked too much. Socialists would not form a Fifth International, they claimed: at most they would revive the moribund Second International. They charged Nenni with trying to deliver Socialism to the Communist ogre. When reminded that in London Nenni had spoken out against a merger with the Communists, they snapped: "That was on an odd day of the month. On even days he's for [it]." Declared a like-minded right-wing socialist in New York: "This mountain will give birth to a little left-wing mouse...
Last week customers were snapping up the 8,000 copies of their fifth issue, and the two G.I.s had $5,000 in the bank. Inside the magazine's chaste blue cover were plenty of ads, dashes of fiction and poetry, an article by Saturday Evening Post Associate Editor Edgar Snow, predicting no big war in the next ten years...
Peerless Paper. Today the infant of 1846 is a giant of Fleet Street, fifth in circulation (with 1.5 million) among London's nine "national" newspapers, and known as the highbrow of the mass-readership field. Heading its high command is dry, aging Chocolate Tycoon Laurence J. Cadbury, whose father bought shares in 1901 (at David Lloyd George's behest) to keep them out of the clutches of Boer War imperialists. As chairman of Daily News, Ltd., Quaker Cadbury, a publisher without a peerage, leaves its operations to a devoutly Liberal triumvirate: Sir Walter Layton, quondam Cambridge...
...Fifth Air Force technicians who found the A26 (one of the only two built) on an airdrome near Tokyo are inclined to believe the claim. Notable feature: fuel tanks cover 75% of the A-26's wing span, carry nine tons (3,219 gallons) of gasoline, accounting for some 54% of the plane's gross weight...