Word: returning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only averted a strike; it had put Chrysler, Ford and many big parts makers on the spot. G.M. was looking ahead to the return of competitive selling, wanted no breaks in production. This week President Wilson announced that G.M. planned no price changes on its cars as the result of its new wage pattern...
...return of General Douglas MacArthur to his native land, after four years of war and three as master of Japan, will be an event. For a brief moment last week it looked as if that event were about to happen...
...normal circumstances," he cabled, "I should respond at once . . . But my return at this time, however sincere its purpose, would be understood and condemned by many as politically inspired ... It would be peculiarly repugnant to. me to have it felt that I sought to capitalize to political advantage, as many have frankly urged, the public good will which might manifest itself upon my first return to American soil . . . For such good will would find its inspiration in the victory which crowned our Pacific war effort to which countless gallant Americans, living and dead, contributed . . . Usurpation of such good will...
...Marlborough goes off to fight; he will never return again ... a sparrow is singing over his grave: ."Sleep in peace...
...your hat and observe one minute of silence." Clenching his teeth, Sacha complied. Notoriously fond of talking, he was silent for an entire minute. His captors took flashbulb pictures which turned up in the Lyon newspaper Le Progres. Humiliated but unharmed and untouched, he was then permitted to return to his hotel and leave town in the morning...