Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...INTENSE FEELING IN THIS MATTER RESULTS FROM RECENT TRIP MADE TO GREECE, WHEN AT GENERAL VAN FLEET'S INVITATION ACCOMPANIED HIM ON VISIT TO FIGHTING FRONTS. FROM FIRST-HAND OBSERVATIONS, LEARNED GREECE IS FIGHTING COMMUNISTS IN FULL-SCALE ALL-OUT WAR WHICH IS MOST VIOLENT AND RUTHLESS IN HER HISTORY. TRUE TO HER TRADITION, GREECE AGAIN FIGHTS TO PRESERVE WESTERN DEMOCRATIC CIVILIZATION...
During the Communist siege of Taiyuan, Marshal Yen Hsi-Shan, leader of the Nationalist forces, arranged to have TIME Pacific parachuted to him along with the ammunition supplied by chartered planes. In Tokyo, General Douglas MacArthur reads TIME, as does Emperor Hirohito, after his secretary translates...
This year Saga's cautious bamboo-shoot farmers realized with shocked surprise what a spiritual vacuum was left: in January's general election, 37 of their young people voted Communist. Saga's conservative toshiyori (elders) lost no time in calling a town meeting to talk it over. Up stood prosperous Farmer Sakuji Takahashi with a ready-made solution. In the big city of Kyoto, said Sakuji, he had heard Msgr. Paul Furuya, a Japanese Roman Catholic priest, preach to some new converts. The monsignor's brand of religion, he argued, looked like just what Saga needed...
...doldrums for months, this week got some long-awaited good news. The Federal Reserve Board cut the cash required for stock purchases from 75% to 50% of the stock price, the first margin reduction in over two years. FRB said it was relaxing margins "in the light of the general credit situation"; credit on stocks was near an alltime low. In effect, FRB was saying in another way that the danger of inflation was about gone...
...hulking Connecticut Yankee who had started with American Woolen in 1903 as a clerk, all this sounded like the bad old days. From 1925 to 1946, American Woolen made the goods for one out of every six men's suits in the U.S. But the wool industry, in general, was in a slump until the war years, and American paid no dividends on common stock. Then, as 10,000,000 ex-servicemen rushed to buy their first civvies, American Woolen found itself so prosperous that in 1946 it declared a $12 common dividend, saw its stock soar from...