Word: return
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Closed Deal. In Oklahoma City, Mrs. Bessie Ledick told the court that when she offered to sell a set of false teeth to Fred E. Humphrey, he tried them on for size, seemed satisfied with the fit, but refuses either to return them...
They soon found out. The U.S. had deported him to Austria as a visa violater. There, said a cool State Department announcement, "Barsov is now being given an opportunity freely to determine whether he wishes to return to the Soviet Union or remain under U.S. jurisdiction in Europe...
...prime causes of World War II was Japan's conquest and industrial development of Manchuria. One of the high goals of U.S. victory was the return of Manchuria to China...
...breakfast cigarette, stepped briskly out of his apartment house on Ottawa's Elgin Street and walked toward his office on Parliament Hill. To a woman passer-by who smiled at him St. Laurent doffed his Panama. A grinning, unshaven drunk gave him a grandiose wave, got a nod in return. At a busy intersection, a policeman directing traffic kept him waiting at the curb while two streetcars rumbled by. In the five-block walk, only half a dozen Canadians saluted their handsome, 67-year-old Prime Minister...
...companies as familiar to farmers as Sears, Roebuck & Co., General Motors Corp., General Electric Co. and Corn Products Refining Co., and pointed out that the shares have been paying 5 to 7%. Though Merrill Lynch was careful not to draw the comparison, this is far bigger than the return that farmers get from savings banks...