Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entire Greek Army now consists of only a little more than nine divisions. General Chamberlin, who was Douglas MacArthur's wartime operations officer, found that even under the most favorable conditions it would take the Army a year to regain mastery of northern Greece, which is at the mercy of the guerrillas...
...heroes of those awful hours in the plane were nine U.S. merchant seamen, homeward bound after delivering a tanker to an English buyer. They nonchalantly ate sardines and crackers, reassured the passengers and tied bibs made of torn sheets around the necks of retching men & women...
...Leader. In the three years since he got out of jail (after nine years), magnetic Luis Carlos Prestes, No. i South American Communist, had rallied over 130,000 Brazilians-intellectuals, workers and the dispossessed-to form the biggest Communist Party in the Western Hemisphere. Moscow-trained Luis Carlos Prestes preached cooperation with the bourgeoisie and discontent with the government. Six months ago, at Army behest, President Dutra had the Superior Electoral Court declare the Communist Party illegal. Then the Party turned to infiltration tactics, presumably with counsel and advice from the Soviet Embassy. Soon it had made deals within Dutra...
...help Peiping's 1,700 registered prostitutes execute their new duties, the police planned a month-long lecture course. Some of the girls railed at the hour set for the lectures. Said Red Pearl, of the Bright Star house, "Nine o'clock is very inconvenient. Our overnight guests are never gone that early in the morning...
...Wall Street had been prepared to expect, the Kaiser-Frazer Corp. this week announced that it was in the black for the first nine months of this year (TIME, Oct. 13). K-F joyfully informed stockholders that the company had made a profit of $8.3 million in the third quarter, after a loss of $2.2 million in the first six months. The overall profit of $6.1 million, said K-F, was tax free under the carry-forward tax provision. (K-F's $19.3 million loss in 1946 makes profits up to that amount tax free.) The report, said...