Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans exacted as heavy a toll of U.S. lives as they could. They fought like fiends up to the moment of annihilation; then they quit to save their skins. At Fort du Roule they fought among themselves over whether to surrender. Few insisted on dying for the Fi-hrer, although they had been ordered to fight to the death, and many fought their last battle literally with a revolver at their backs. Reported TIME Correspondent Charles Christian Wertenbaker: "The prisoners do not look gallant now; in fact they never were very gallant...
...Milky Way. In Chicago, Mrs. Catherine Copulos celebrated her 102nd birthday, announced that she had quit drinking a daily glass of port wine, now takes a glass of milk...
...Congress has directed WFA to support floor prices. If the agency quit, egg prices would sag to 15 or 20 cents, putting many a hennery out of business. Then, during the normal winter slump, prices might rocket to $1.50 or $2. WFA's job is to maintain the farmer's basic average price of 30?. To do this it had to buy up 5,000,000 cases of eggs between January and June of this year, as against a mere 31,000 cases for the same period...
...rest was up. He stepped in as the new president of bouncing Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., and perhaps, in the carnivorous auto industry, to try to take a revengeful hunk out of spry old Henry's hide. Willys, which has been hunting a president since Joseph Washington Fraser quit eight months ago, kept mum on details of the deal. But it was reported that in addition to Sorensen's salary (Ford paid him $220,000 yearly) he got an option on a sizable chunk of Willys stock.* Thus he would pay only a 25% capital-gains...
Last week a mob of anti-Fascist Italians sacked the Roman villa of Beniamino Gigli, famed tenor, who in 1932 quit the Metropolitan and returned to Italy in a huff after refusing to accept a depression pay-cut. Tenor Gigli was accused of friendliness with Nazi officials in Italy...