Word: letting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uniforms. Hardest hit were typists, stenographers, clerks, sacked when firms folded up or skeletonized their staffs as they deserted the big towns. Shopgirls getting 30 to 40 shillings a week were dropped by the hundreds because with evacuations retail trade slumped badly. In London, Selfridge's had to let 1,000 go, John Lewis dismissed 300, gave the rest a 25% pay cut. Even the tarts had an unemployment problem due to the nightly blackouts...
...that A. Hitler might be about to give J. Stalin a free hand to take Bessarabia from Rumania, created such a sensation that both Rumanian Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu and Bulgarian Premier George Kiosseivanov announced they were smarting on the morrow for Moscow, then abruptly canceled their visits and let it be known they would confer with the Turkish Foreign Minister as he passes through the Balkans on his way back to Ankara...
...unsuccessful) by the Royal Air Force on German naval bases. Against them they saw three damaging weeks of submarine warfare and two air raids (possibly unsuccessful) on their Fleet. Only by last week had a British Expeditionary Force of perhaps six divisions established itself in France. Already the impatient "let's get On with it" idea began to be heard, at least in England...
Columbia Broadcasting System at once asked the British Admiralty to let them have this eminent prisoner for a broadcast. The Admiralty hemmed & hawed. It took Berlin only 48 hours to trump Mr. Churchill's ace. There CBS was supplied with a voice which said it belonged to Captain Herbert Schultze, commander of the U-48 which sank the Philbine. In reply to urbane Mr. Churchill this voice said: "He had apparently got my position wrong...
...upper deck structure, and extend the periscope a little. It's an aircraft carrier. I see two airplanes. I see destroyers. I know it will be a tough task. But hurt the enemy whenever you can. Let...