Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia's desire to go to Paris had not resulted from any sudden realization that the U.S. wants peace; Russian leaders must have known that all along. Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith last week recalled a revealing remark Stalin had made when Smith was U.S. Ambassador in Moscow. Stalin had told him: "We do not want war any more than the West does, but we are less interested in peace than the West, and therein lies the strength of our position...
...should come back from exile to resume the throne. It is the overriding issue in the June 26 elections, and by last week the campaign was hot and ferocious. The Christian Social Party (Catholic) favored Leopold's return. The Socialists and Communists were against it. Labor threatened a general strike if Leopold returned...
...union demands which have been pushing up production costs and pricing British goods out of export markets. Laborite politicos, however, believed that in the present mood of Britons a "normal" unemployment of 1,000,000 would kill the Labor Party's hopes of winning next year's general elections...
...only field for the Yankee dollar. Last year, Chrysler, General Motors and Ford* turned out automotive products worth $183 million, 95% of Canadian production. Firestone, U.S. Rubber, Goodyear and Goodrich did 60% of the rubber business, and other well-known U.S. manufacturing names were familiar throughout the provinces. In the latest DBS report Coca-Cola has 22 bottling works, Borden Co. 23 dairy processing plants, Swift 26 packinghouses...
...they arranged to buy the track (from themselves and a few minority stockholders). From now on, they will take no profits, pay no taxes (saving up to $40,000 a year). They plan to split the surplus left after salaries and operating expenses between the university medical school and general charities...