Word: matches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...predict a revolution or revolt so far in advance, but all evidence certainly points to the same alarming conclusion. The reasons are partly historic and partly aggravated by the present situation (the use of Indian troops in Java, for one thing). Certainly the tinderbox has been moved nearer the match by the Indians' frustration at the fact that Labor is not for them a new hope but is following the oldtime India policy. We are firmly convinced that great trouble is in the making and further feel it highly significant-1) that the British are keeping such large numbers...
...Central Government was still negotiating with the Communists for an overall settlement ; if that failed, Chungking would fight a major civil war to re-establish Chinese sovereignty over Manchuria. In the long run, the Central Government armies, especially the crack U.S.-trained divisions, looked like more than a match for the Red guerrillas...
...themes, and to glorify Russia's past and present. And his hard, brilliant, unsentimental, highly polished music had just the qualities the Bolsheviks liked. He soon became the most influential composer in Russia, and even non-Russians had to admit that no other composer in the world could match him in technical adroitness and flash...
...hunting down assets, Irving Trust had to learn the match industry from the bottom, so as to carry on the business of International Match, which had subsidiaries in 15 foreign countries and an annual sales volume of $14,000,000. Irving Trust sued the U.S. for recovery of back income taxes which Kreuger had paid on fictitious income, finally...
Thirty-two Cents on the Dollar. Irving Trust got Sweden to surrender $21,000,000 of $50,000,000 in German bonds which Kreuger had stolen from International Match to use as collateral against his own indebtedness. Then, with the help of the U.S. Government, it forced Nazi President of the Reichsbank Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greely Schacht to pay $2,000,000 on their interest...