Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Consideration. In a moment of ill-advised generosity, France's Chamber of Deputies voted to up the concierge's wages by 300%. Thrifty Parisian landlords were sacking their watchdogs right & left. By last week, some 6,000 had lost their jobs...
Clearly, the Reds were hard-pressed. In the Peloponnesos they had been wiped out or driven so far back into their lairs that the mopping-up job could be left to the gendarmerie and peasants. Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet's U.S. military mission reported that in 1948 the Communists had lost 33,000 men by death, capture and desertion. "This," said Van Fleet, "is a report of success. However, I want to caution against too much optimism...
...Elli had a very hard journey. Her party was forced to walk for the first two days, and many of the women broke down and were left by the wayside, and Elli does not know their fate . . . The officer in charge said: "If you cannot get along, stay here and go 'kaputt...
...Dodero properties were worth much more than the government paid for them and the fact that Don Alberto would sell at such a bargain price left Argentines breathless. Whatever the government pressure, the public could only conclude that Dodero knew when to get out. Apparently shrewd Don Alberto foresaw no future for free enterprisers like himself in Perón's Argentina...
Midnight Mass. As night fell, tension mounted around the moonlit road blocks. From Sherbrooke, 40 miles away, word came that a heavily armed force of Provincial Police was mobilizing. Strikers made more rigid searches of every car coming down the highways. Near midnight, all hands left their posts for midnight Mass at the big stone church of Saint-Aimé, where strikers had prayed daily that they would be granted the union security and a 15?-an-hour wage boost that they had demanded. (Johns-Manville argued that the union-security demand was an attempt to interfere in "managerial policy...