Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subcommittee called this statement a "misrepresentation." The Senators pointed to Treasury Department figures for November 1943, which showed 392,063,092 tax gallons of whiskey in bonded warehouses. They charged that the distillers had also failed to mention in their ad: 1) the 30,000,000 proof gallons of neutral spirits in bonded warehouses which would be blended with much of the straight whiskey before sale; 2) the fact that in most blends distilled water is added to cut the proof from too to 86. Also, the industry's estimate of 96,000,000 gallons for leakage, evaporation...
Turkey, it was rumored last week, had decided simply to ignore the problem that has kept her neutral for five years-how to plunge into World War II without getting too wet. This week President Ismet Inönü would convene the National Assembly, and if reports were true, break off diplomatic and economic relations with Germany. He would also offer the use of Turkish airfields to Allied planes, close the Straits to German ships, round up some 2,000 Nazi spies who, from their headquarters in Turkey, infest the entire Near East...
Telephone and wire services to neutral countries were cut off. Airplane flights to neutral Sweden and Switzerland were interrupted. For hours the fate of Hitler and of Germany, which was in some degree the fate of every man, woman & child in the world, was shrouded behind an invisible, hermetic barrier...
...than ever. China's ragged army of rifleman and grenade-throwers had fought a critical campaign under appalling hardships (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Washington gossips croaked the news that Vice President Henry Wallace brought Franklin Roosevelt from Chungking: China's situation is grave, even desperate. And last week neutral Russia, breaking its long reticence about the Sino-Japanese war, treated its exhausted neighbor to a stroke of the bear...
...majority of bankers, realtors and neutral observers regarded this hair-raising view as far too extreme, for three reasons...