Word: safes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, Nov. 21). Angrily, President Truman called the whole affair an outrage. Secretary of State Dean Acheson said that the U.S. would not even consider recognition of Communist China until it released the prisoners and offered assurances that the 2,500 other Americans stranded in China would be safe...
...purpose of dismantling was twofold: 1) to compensate, in some measure, the conquerors and victims of Nazi Germany; 2) to keep future German industrial production "down to a "safe" level. In 1946, with France invited into the quadripartite administration of Germany, the Big Four agreed on a maximum level for Germany's industry keyed to an annual steel production of 5.8 million tons. About 400 war plants were to be dismantled (in a few cases, destroyed) as a matter of military security; about 1,500 other plants not directly engaged in war production, called "surplus," were earmarked for possible...
...great Kugelfischer ball-bearing plant at Schweinfurt). The U.S. began to realize that wholesale dismantling provoked resentment among German workers, and seriously interfered with German-and therefore with West European-recovery, which was the West's supreme objective. In other words, dismantling was making Germany anything but "safe...
Members of the first team were Brown, Ray Suttle, Michael Safe, Howard Reed, and the late John Moses. Second team competitors were James Eyre, Ned Eyre, Chris Grant, Colin Cameron, and Bill Saltonstall...
When the Japanese invasion drew nearer, Ai Wei-teh shepherded more than 100 homeless children on foot to a representative of Mme. Chiang Kai-shek's, a 27-day journey away. But Gladys Aylward has no memory of their safe arrival. She collapsed from exhaustion just before the end, and was taken delirious to a hospital. This year, the China Inland Mission, which once told the London parlormaid that she was unfit to be a missionary, bought her a round-trip ticket to England...