Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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North Africa was the eye opener. To the spot went OFRRO's able, balding Food Expert Herbert Parisius, 48, who quit the Agriculture Department last January in protest against its do-nothing policies. He found North Africa stripped of food by the Nazis. But the wheat crop was growing high in the sun-baked fields...
...month after the Allied landings, the Italians had quit fighting in Sicily, the Germans faced another Cap Bon, though with some hope of evacuating a remnant. In Sicily, the Axis had lost 125,000 men captured, uncounted thousands dead and wounded, uncounted hundreds of planes, tanks, trucks and guns. They had won a month's time to bolster Festung Europa; but they had surely hoped for more. The Allies had practiced amphibious invasion on a grand scale, had sealed their control of the Mediterranean. Now they stood a step from the European main...
...Allen, boomed it into a fortune. He calls it "a happy, whimsical little business." It gave him time to become the first chairman of Franklin Roosevelt's Civil Aeronautics Authority in 1938, and to serve as his Under Secretary of Commerce. A better-than-average public administrator, he quit the Government in 1940 to support Wendell Willkie...
...newspapers knew Harris had been fired before Harris found out about it. Twenty-four Phillies got up a strike petition demanded that Cox reinstate Harris-so that Harris could quit before he was fired. Cox apologized saying that the bounce had not reflected on Harris' "ability as a baseball manager." Harris very decently told his ex-players to do it for Fitz. They did, breaking the eleven-game winning streak (longest in either league) of the world champion St. Louis Cards...
This protracted wheedling of Beauty by what Beauty regarded as the Beast might have gone on until Miss Bergman inherited the shawl of Ouspenskaya but for a second Selznick brainstorm. Selznick decided that vociferous blandishments, promises and temptations by cable were still a shade too Hollywood, and quit wearying the wires with them. This was a task, he now realized, for flesh and blood. Considering Miss Bergman's mental picture of an American female executive, the casting of the role was brilliantly lucky. He sent over a particularly tactful lady named Kay Brown. And that did it. Miss Bergman...