Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true that G.M. was on a hotter spot than Ford, put there by the U.A.W. strategy, which had singled it out as the first target to strike. But as the G.M. strike entered its fifth week and the language on both sides grew more violent, G.M.'s negotiators were no match for U.A.W.'s fiery, eloquent Walter Reuther...
...Fifth Columnists. Inevitably, some of the displaced Japanese had gone underground. Into a Shanghai restaurant came a mild-looking Oriental dressed in a Chinese gown. Suddenly a Chinese woman rose from a table, screamed: "That man! He's not Chinese-he's a Jap! He burned me at the Bridge House!" (headquarters of the notorious Kempeitai, the Japanese Gestapo). She lifted her skirt to show ugly scars across her thighs. In the confusion, the mild-looking man vanished...
Shanghai was the focus of a loosely knit and potentially dangerous Japanese fifth column. U.S. newsmen reported that it was composed of Black Dragon terrorists and diehard operatives of Japanese intelligence services. The fifth-column objectives were said to be: 1) promoting anti-democratic propaganda; 2) promoting Chinese civil strife...
Inflation. Manhattan's Dale Fifth Avenue, Inc. did not think it could sell many men's alligator weekend bags at $2,000 apiece. It made one anyhow, just to show what it could do, and advertised it. The day the ad appeared, Dale's was crowded by hundreds of bag hunters. By week's end Dale had taken orders for four $2,000 bags, had some 50 other customers "seriously interested." Said President Herbert Dale: "Most surprising...
Married. Carole Landis, 26, chesty, under-chinned cinemactress; and Horace Schmidlapp, 30, freshman Broadway producer (Polonaise); she for the fifth time (twice to No. 1), he for the first; in Manhattan...