Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...potent threat: they could refuse to sign peace treaties with puppet governments in Eastern Europe. For a fortnight the Russian press raged against Anglo-American interference with internal affairs of sovereign Balkan nations. London denied the charge of Balkan intrigue. Once the U.S. and Britain had taken a firm stand, direct intervention was not necessary to encourage democratic elements in eastern Europe which looked to the West for both economic aid and political sympathy...
...Allied Chemical & Dye Corp., which he and Eugene Meyer organized after World War I as a holding and operating company surpassing any European competitor; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Son of a Socialist labor leader, Tycoon Weber had such a fetish for secrecy that no firm member could appear in Who's Who or have his picture taken for publication. Not until the New York Stock Exchange threatened in 1933 to remove Allied's 2,400,000 shares from its lists did the corporation reveal its financial anatomy-and its amazing profit record-even to stockholders. Soon...
...this gets started in a very leisurely fashion, but it is done with firm taste and imaginativeness. People who like their horror dished up with a lavish hand are liable to become restless. But they will do well to keep their seats: the time soon comes when a seat is handy for hanging onto...
...reaction was of almost atomic intensity. Cried Commentator Karl Hoffman in Red Star: "It is significant that not a single Labor paper has opposed the conceptions put forward by the Times which are difficult to fit in with the common task of the Allied nations to ensure a firm peace. . . . A prescription has been found [by the Times]; eastern tendencies must be opposed by western ones, and for this purpose elements in western European countries who are displeased with the new democratic arrangements of eastern Europe and who are now dreaming once again of setting up a cordon sanitaire against...
...onetime fighter and wartime Nazi propaganda stooge has an interest in a book-publishing firm; the commission refused the firm a publishing license...