Word: lost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China is lost to Communism. "The Nationalist government," says Nehru, "had some good elements but also some bad ones. Its failure to get rid of the bad elements was its downfall." Delhi will follow London's lead in the matter of recognizing the Chinese Communist People's Republic...
...every four of West Berlin's workers is jobless: a total of 250,000. At the beginning of the blockade the total was 50,000; at the end, 150,000. In five months of "peace,"' 100,000 more have lost their jobs. Why is this...
Trading with the Pigs. Frau Weimann, 40, reflects the toll on human nerves. "I'm glad when my husband is out; he's so on edge." Franz Weimann lost his job when the blockade ended. To Buckow-Ost, a pastoral suburb, he moved his family of four. Their home is a two-room brick shack in a tiny garden. "How could we pay our old rent of 50 marks ($11.90) when unemployment compensation is 120 marks?" Frau Weimann asked. "This week my husband gave me 15 marks; we're all supposed to eat on that...
...Like his owner, he came in second. The reason was that a Lingfield, as at all U.S. tracks, the horses run counterclockwise, making left turns. Colonist had won all his races to date (three) on clockwise tracks, which are more common in France and Britain. At Lingfield, where he lost by a length and a half to rail-clinging Setarah 11 (owned by Socialist ex-Bandleader Jack Hylton), Colonist swung too far to the right...
Since Schmiedigen flew down from New York last November to build the Haitians a $6,000,000 fair, he has lost 30 Ibs. As soon as he began the job, which has to be finished in time for Port-au-Prince's sooth anniversary in December, he discovered that there were practically no skilled workers in the country. He has had to train electricians, plumbers, welders, drillers, mechanics. He has personally supervised carpenters and masons, all of whom were imbued to a man with the Haitian aversion to straight lines and square corners...