Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Headwork. In Vienna, House-Hunters Martina Lang and Franz Muelbacher got desperate, decapitated Joseph and Anna Schwarz, tried to move into their apartment, landed in jail instead...
...occupy or govern Korea, the U.S. is still trying to live down initial errors: the bad feeling created by retaining Japanese police, however briefly, as a temporary control force (the Soviets booted them quickly and efficiently in the north) ; a willingness to string along with doddering Korean oldsters, instead of young, competent and popular leaders; the crowning fiasco of abandoning rice rationing, which soon resulted in a critical shortage, a black market and inflation. That the Russians were making mistakes, too, in the northern sector was evidenced by the thousands of Koreans attempting to flee to the south...
...teemed with high-salaried, incompetent political lame ducks; it was constantly in trouble with labor. And in eight years it had failed to fit the oil industry into the domestic economy. It was still geared for export. Its pipelines ran down to the sea instead of to home markets in the big inland cities. A new refinery outside Mexico City would soon ease the capital's shortage, but others had yet to be built in Monterrey, Salamanca, Salina Cruz...
...knew for sure when the workers would be rehired. Said Briggs: perhaps January, perhaps not till April. The industry had hoped to turn out 500,000 cars in October. Instead, Ward's automotive reports estimated that production would now be only 356,000, down to where it was in August. Packard Sales Manager Lyman W. Slack gloomily predicted: "The average person simply will not be able to buy a car until well into...
...with these cold facts, money-losing corporations, which had kept payrolls fat in hopes that peak production would pull them out of the red, now began to think about trimming. After the stockmarket crash, Wall Streeters had predicted that many a businessman would start using the ugly word "retrenchment" instead of expansion. Last week, in one of the country's key industries, at least, it looked as if the retrenchment had started...