Word: remained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain expected to repatriate all prisoners by the end of next summer, France by December. Both countries, however, hoped to induce Germans to remain as "civilian" workers. Some 85,000 P.O.W.s have already signed contracts to stay for at least a year in France, another 35,000 have applied...
...Czechoslovakia. Moscow last week announced that German prisoners in Russia were being repatriated at the rate of 9,000 a week, but did not give the exact number still held. Said one German prisoner's wife last week: "My letters to Russian officials in Berlin and Moscow remain unanswered. I think they do not know themselves whom they have, and do not wish to admit...
Rate-Boost. U.S. railroads, out for higher rates all around, got a sop from the ICC. It granted the roads a 25% temporary increase in mail rates. The increase, estimated to yield the railroads more than $32,000,000 a year, will remain in effect until ICC acts on their request for a permanent 45% hike in mail...
Those who know Wenner-Gren did not expect him to remain a telephone king very long; he is well aware that such companies are easy targets for expropriation. But the deal helped him get part of his fortune out of Sweden. After he had done that, he could sell his holdings in the merged company, and use the cash to expand his less vulnerable Mexican ventures...
...continuing aspect of U.S. military aid to Chiang is MAGIC, the corps of 750 officers & men of the U.S. Military Advisory Group in China. In theory operating under strict orders to remain "neutral," MAGIC has in practice been advising-at the noncombat level-the only military establishment it could reach, the Nationalist army. A fortnight ago, MAGIC's commander, Major General John P. Lucas, with whom Chiang had long been dissatisfied, was relieved by bluff, hearty Major General David G. Barr...