Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Socialists got 67 seats (they had 76 before). The new League of Independent Voters, which is openly pro-Nazi, gained; it got an ominous 12% of the popular vote and 16 seats. The Communists, still Austria's weakest party, managed to add one parliamentary seat to the four they previously held...
...voice resumed its complaint. "Fleas," it said loftily, "have not been known in Le Locle for many years. When the war ended, arrangements were made for French train crews to use the Swiss bunkhouse. Promptly the trouble began. First there were two fleas, then there were four, then they came by the hundreds...
...going out of business in Berlin? TIME Berlin Bureau Chief Enno Hobbing revisited the city last week after a four-month absence. His report...
...every four of West Berlin's workers is jobless: a total of 250,000. At the beginning of the blockade the total was 50,000; at the end, 150,000. In five months of "peace,"' 100,000 more have lost their jobs. Why is this...
Trading with the Pigs. Frau Weimann, 40, reflects the toll on human nerves. "I'm glad when my husband is out; he's so on edge." Franz Weimann lost his job when the blockade ended. To Buckow-Ost, a pastoral suburb, he moved his family of four. Their home is a two-room brick shack in a tiny garden. "How could we pay our old rent of 50 marks ($11.90) when unemployment compensation is 120 marks?" Frau Weimann asked. "This week my husband gave me 15 marks; we're all supposed to eat on that...