Word: reopening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some New Orleanians were somewhat skeptical of Andy's move. They thought he might find some excuse to reopen later on. Andy sent a broadside to his sales force reminding them that while the Higgins company would be liquidated, Higgins himself...
...these key Hopeh cities fighting had been going on for weeks. Last week the news burst into the open, and General Ho Ying-chin, Chungking's chief of staff and commander in chief of all field forces, went to the north. He flatly declared that the Government would reopen communications "as soon as possible." So far it was primarily a political and economic war; the military phase was incidental...
MacArthur clamped down further. He forbade transactions in silver, gold and foreign exchange, denied the stock exchange permission to reopen, ordered the. Army and Navy to hand over all arms to the Allied Commander, all food and other supplies to civilian authorities (unwanted arms would be broken up for scrap). He permitted the manufacture of trucks but not of passenger cars. He ordered the criminals responsible for the infamous "Death March" on Bataan rounded up. Finally, he seized 21 Jap banks (but assured ordinary depositors that they would get their money...
Archie (Ed Gardner), the Duffy bar tender, is feeding and boozing 14 unemployed exservicemen in the back room, strictly on his frayed cuff. Their former employer, O'Malley (Victor Moore), is clumsily trying to connive the shellac and the funds to reopen his record factory...
Since, by Government order, no paper which published with German permission could reopen, only five of Paris' prewar dailies are still in business. Their successors - there were twelve on Liberation Day, 31 now - are skimpy, cautious, color less. Some (the best: Combat, Franc-Tireur, Resistance) came up from the underground, and are mainly leftist and critical of De Gaulle. Newer dailies are mostly rightist, 100% pro-De Gaulle...