Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spent 18 months after college as a research man for the Wisconsin Telephone Co., then "quit in disgust" and went to work for the Wisconsin Public Service Commission. Soon he was borrowed by the Federal Communications Commission to help investigate the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. His reputation as a utilities expert grew. At 30, as the Tennessee Valley Authority's manager of power operations, he negotiated the famed Commonwealth & Southern purchases with Wendell Willkie...
...Anglo-Soviet-Iranian Treaty of Jan. 29, 1942 (to whose aims the U.S. later gave its blessing) pledged Britain and Russia to quit the country by March 2, 1946. When Britain and the U.S. last year sought to predate the deadline, Russian Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov acidly observed: "The Soviet Government is. guided strictly by the time limit established in the" 1942 treaty...
...Three met the deadline. The last G.I. quit by Jan. 1, the last Tommy before midnight on March 1. But Russia had let down deeper roots-in the Communist-controlled "autonomous" province of Azerbaijan. If the Red Army withdrew from the north, Azerbaijan would forthwith lose its autonomous props. Nor had the Kremlin had enough time to negotiate a new treaty with Iranian Premier Ahmad Gavam Saltaneh, who had been in Moscow since...
Pettus said he never had been a Communist. Rubin said he had, but quit before he was inducted. Their staff seemed to be with them: seven Stars and Stripers immediately asked to be reassigned...
...quit school, became a soda jerk, then an insurance investigator-until a slight mathematical mistake on his part cost his firm $40,000. Once a dentist hired him to mind his office during lunch hour; Danny busied himself making needlepoint designs in the woodwork with the dentist's drill. Eventually, he and Eisen took their harmony act to station WBBC, Brooklyn. At last Danny thought he was getting somewhere...