Word: list
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much to place the task of developing a maximum degree of civil courage high on the list of priorities for our teachers, our writers and our public speakers...
...Publisher William Charles Empey (Will's son), decided to keep going. Each day through World War II, the Guide appeared as usual-but the back page, where ship movements were formerly listed, was blank. Empey and his staff continued to gather up the forbidden news of ships that touched at San Francisco each day. Then the list was set, one page proof was pulled, and locked in the office safe...
Empey bore this routine patiently, so long as the war was on, and even for a few days after the peace. Then one day he got mad. If Admiral Nimitz could list warships in Tokyo Bay, he said, William Empey could list merchant ships in San Francisco Bay. First Empey asked permission of the Office of Censorship, was told the office had been "abolished." Empey tried the War Shipping Administration, got a flat "no." The Guide-printed the list of ships anyway...
...summarily ordered the Germans themselves to open all schools (except universities) in the Soviet zone by October 1. German officials were "warned" to prepare buildings and books in time. All private schools were told to become public ones. The German zone administrator was given two days to submit a list of courses and books for Soviet approval. German school directors were told to go out and find non-Nazi teachers. Teaching, said Marshal Zhukov, must "reveal the reactionary character of Naziism, fascist race instructions, and the military character of the former German Reich." His instructions were typical of the Russian...
...strikes in key plants. Said Reuther: ''We can send thousands of the 325,000 G.M. workers . . . on fishing trips while a few hundred close one plant." He kept the names of the plants to himself, but every G.M. worker knew that the Fisher Body plants headed the list. Without bodies, G.M. could make no cars...