Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handed the hottest issue of his newspaper career. Employees of the Flora Municipal Light & Water System joined the A.F.L. Electrical Workers, and asked the City Council to recognize them as a union for collective bargaining. When the council refused, 19 employees went on strike. The Sentinel declared itself editorially neutral in the dispute, promised to report "both sides" in its news columns...
...lack of phony tension and climax gives the book its own quiet tone of truth. Writes Foote: "The only excitement a spy is likely to have is his last, when he is finally run to earth." Foote was run to earth just once, fortunately for him in neutral Switzerland...
Expert: There can be no relationship based on a mutual dependency of neutral markets. Otto Husch would not have allowed that. He was in Vienna at the time...
What were those "rights"? The U.S. can request the setting up of an arbitration commission to be composed of Western and Russian representatives plus one neutral. If agreement on the choice of this neutral cannot be reached, the U.S. may ask U.N. to appoint one. If the commission, once set up, still fails to reach agreement, the U.S. can, of course, always go to U.N.'s Security Council-and there run up against the Russian veto. This was the peace to which 18 months ago Jeeves had so grandly guided the nations...
...different ways and places TIME filtered through to the Continent. Clandestine underground publications kept Occupied France supplied with TIME material which arrived via Portugal. By 1944 we were printing a Scandinavian edition behind the German blockade in neutral Stockholm from film (of TIME's pages) flown from the U.S. to Britain and then, by blacked-out Mosquito bomber, across the North Sea at night into Sweden. There German officers passing through could read about Allied victories, and the Japanese embassy dutifully cabled TIME's entire contents to Tokyo each week. We never lost a packet of film through...