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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...period of small-scale unoffical wars which followed World War I, no territorial settlement led to so much actual fighting or violent controversy as did the definition of Poland's boundaries. Then it was the Russians who were weak and the Poles, who disregarding the ethnologically just "Curzon Line" drawn at the peace conference, swept into Russia's easternmost provinces and incorporated them by the treaty of Riga in 1921. It is this Treaty which Stalin denounced after Sikorski's rejection of the Polish Soviet Treaty of 1939, which reestablished the border at the Bug River...
...aircraft decision was the most critical thus far this year. In handling it, WLB was no more firm than unanimous. It granted half the workers in these plants an average increase of 7½? an hour under a reclassified pay scale; to the 30,000 workers in Boeing's Seattle plant-who had walked out fortnight ago because WLB's decision was so long delayed-it threw a small sop in the form of a 4½?-an-hour increase under the Little Steel formula...
...benevolent OPA, was spared higher taxes by a pussyfooting Congress. Result: a national orgy of carnivory. Seldom in its history had the U.S. been all at work at one time. The country was getting suddenly rich-all over, all at once. The economy was stretching on a vast scale to catch up-but it had not caught...
...forward to a lifetime job or (if he got too feeble) to a peerage when he retired. Like all good British Speakers-and there have been few bad ones in recent times-Captain Fitzroy had to become a political agnostic, impartially guiding the business of the House. In social scale he ranked next below the Prime Minister and the Lord President of the Council, before all peers of the realm except archbishops...
...started . . . that day in the Whitehall, office. It was in that high and solemn room with a view of the Thames that we were first shown the small-scale chart of Norway with a blue circle round the fiord the island and the fortified pimple islet set off at one corner...