Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Which Way to Turn? For those who run _ trialists, Germany - Junkers - Nazis, the summer militarists, of indus 1943 posed one paramount problem: now that military defeat is growing closer, now that psychological defeat is imminent, could Germany still gain victory in the peace? There were two possibilities: 1) conditional surrender to Britain and America; 2) making terms with Russia...
...aboard the wreck, Merritt-Chapman & Scott's tough, salvage-wise John I. Tooker signaled his pump men. Too slowly for a waiting eye to see, the big dead ship moved in her muddy grave. Only the high-water mark etched on her nearly vertical deck revealed the inching gain...
...fact stood out: despite hell & high taxes U.S. corporations made more money than they had dared hope. The gloomily Republican New York Sun totted up 155 companies' earnings, came out with a 16.6% increase for this year's June quarter over last year's; a 14.1% gain for the first half...
...days later, at his press conference, the President brought the generalizations down to the give-&-take of diplomacy. When a victorious army invades a country, he explained, two essentials come first: ending all armed opposition and avoiding anarchy. To gain these essentials in Italy, he was ready to talk peace with the King, Badoglio, the mayor of a town -with anyone who was not a definite member of the Fascist Party. Self-determination of government by the Italian people would come later. To show the Italians what kind of occupiers we are, to prevent Sicily from slipping into hunger...
...plant may ask for a strike vote, even when a majority already has in force a collective-bargaining contract. This ruling will be a big help to John L. Lewis. Lewis' catch-all District 50, which includes everything from dairy farmers to petroleum workers, has been trying to gain control at the Allis-Chalmers plant in Springfield, Ill., where C.I.O. already has a contract. District 50 was in the minority when the contract was signed, but now contends it has since signed up a majority of employes. It has asked for a new plant election. NLRB, operating under...