Word: much
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berlin's people had been living mainly on the airlift's dehydrated potatoes, powdered eggs, powdered milk, dried vegetables and occasional cans of meat; this week they would get better food, and more of it. The blockade had shut down much of Berlin's industry, thrown 125,000 out of work. There had been only four hours of electricity a day; Berliners had lighted their homes with candles or gone to bed at sunset. The siege's end meant not only more food, more jobs and more light, but a relatively comfortable winter ahead...
...modern "mercantile adventurers" the stuff to sweep the dollar main? Gone were the days when Britain faced no real competition on world markets. As one energetic Briton said last week: "We must get out of our carpet slippers and don swashbucklers' boots." But the British were not doing much swashbuckling. As the sellers' market was fading, U.S. sales resistance mounted. British prices were too high for the U.S. market; Austin Motor bravely slashed the prices of its cars from $75 to $1,000, cutting its profits to ribbons. Other British automakers groaned: "We'd better...
...left to the gendarmerie and peasants. Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet's U.S. military mission reported that in 1948 the Communists had lost 33,000 men by death, capture and desertion. "This," said Van Fleet, "is a report of success. However, I want to caution against too much optimism...
...missed the point. Opening the front door is a purely incidental duty for La Pipelette. She has chores which include leasing apartments, delivering mail, sweeping the halls, and collecting both garbage and rents. She is the voice of conscience and the threat of retribution. She sees everything and understands much. Monsieur, she notices, is taking on weight. La Pipelette has a brother-in-law who is concierge at an establishment where gentlemen's waistlines are held in check by fencing or judo. For a consideration, Madame could make arrangements...
...Dodero properties were worth much more than the government paid for them and the fact that Don Alberto would sell at such a bargain price left Argentines breathless. Whatever the government pressure, the public could only conclude that Dodero knew when to get out. Apparently shrewd Don Alberto foresaw no future for free enterprisers like himself in Perón's Argentina...