Word: occur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night of June 21 he was ordered to prepare a No. 1 dinner for an important occasion. This he served at 10 o'clock to Ushijima and his chief of staff, Lieut. General Isamu Cho. Five hours later the cook was told that the ceremony was about to occur. Forty minutes after that Ushijima and Cho appeared, wearing dress uniform with medals, their boots highly polished...
...profits tax to 85% from now on. In the same fashion, refunds to corporations due under excess profits tax's "carry-back" provisions, originally designed to cushion industry against reconversion losses, would be put on a current basis (i.e. they could be taken in the year the losses occur). Estimated savings and rebates: $1 billion...
...slashes of as much as 50% below the levels of Jan. i, 1945, and Harry Truman had given his support. Republicans charged that this would allow cuts of as much as 75% below the Smoot-Hawley levels of 1930-34 but administration spokesmen pointed out that such cuts could occur in less than 40% of U.S. imports. The Administration's main point: further authority for reductions was basic to the U.S. policy of world collaboration...
...Requirements Committee, assuming that V-E day will occur "on or before June 30," had asked all claimant agencies (Army, Navy, etc.) to submit within ten days a list of raw materials they will need to finish off Japan...
This week, just to make matters a little more Rumanian, the son of the deposed Premier denounced his father for having ordered troops to fire on the demonstrators (an incident which did occur, although the troops fired into the air and no one was killed...