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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military aid; but many were critical of the manner, timing, and amount. Harry Truman had asked for virtually a free hand to allocate arms and money wherever and whenever he thought they were needed, on whatever terms he chose. Administration spokesmen admitted that they could not estimate accurately how long the program might run, or how much it would ultimately cost...
...grey and white freighter Steel Flyer. Non-union stevedores had loaded 6,200 tons of raw sugar aboard it. At 9:10 p.m. one night, to the chagrin of the strikers, it sailed away, bound for the East Coast of the U.S., where Joe Ryan's A.F.L. longshoremen-long sworn enemies of Harry Bridges-would willingly unload it. It was the first tied-up ship to sail since the strike began three months...
...other agents dug into the murder of two bank messengers and plugged away at the Government's fraud case against Automaker Preston Tucker (TIME, June 20). The FBI was also relentlessly at work on a backlog of continuing cases, including the nation's only two unsolved-and long-forgotten-kidnapings.* They were seeking 1,367 fugitives and 2,462 armed-forces deserters as well...
...brokers' offices last week, there were signs that the public, after long apathy, was beginning to get interested in buying stocks again. The volume of trading perked up, and stocks rose for the fifth week in a row. The Dow-Jones industrial averages hit 175.60, the highest mark in two months and 14 points above the bottom of the June tumble...
...Emily." She turned her head . . . towards him helplessly . . . Dorset said in his sultry voice, his voice of a purring tiger: "I am going to kiss you, Emily. Do you mind?" She felt herself dissolving . . . His eyes, clear and ice-grey between their long lashes, were full of moonlight...