Word: needed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told me: "Whether any of us likes it or not, one thing is true in Europe today-its future depends on the workers of Germany. Russia cannot win them yet-but the West can lose them ... If they should ever desert the West and slide into Bolshevism, then you need no longer worry about what France's workers will do. Then you can have all the Atlantic pacts you can write. Stalin will need no Molotov or Vishinsky, no Cominform, not a single tank. Bolshevism will be everywhere...
...question of a telephone call," said the bicycle man blandly. "I had thought we might need a lawyer and hoped that if someone heard the bell ringing he would call a lawyer...
...office, would you run for the presidency?" Vargas squirmed. He twisted a box of matches around in his hands. He looked out the door. Finally he said: "The Brazilian people are suffering, particularly the workers. The crisis, in time, may pass." And then, as an afterthought: "Perhaps they need a younger man than I." In short, Getulio Vargas did not answer the question as bluntly as the posters...
...inflated prices were spoiling the old place. "They're killing the golden goose," growled an old U.S. visitor. "It costs us 150% more to live here than at home." A warning came from H. J. ("Jack") Tucker, manager of the Bank of Bermuda: "Tourists don't need to come here." Some Bermudians had bought West Indies real estate to the south, with a view to clearing out before the bust. But for the time being, with more & more tourists ready to pay fancy prices, the Bermuda boom...
...editors feel it necessary to have girls on the staff is unclear--perhaps they think it will improve the humor of the magazine, which, in recent months, has slipped to a position somewhat short of overpowering. Perhaps the dutch tiles with which the walls of their sanctum are lined need a spring cleaning; perhaps they look forward to a gayer decor, with chintz curtains in every leaded window...