Word: set
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heard search planes passing in one of the greatest air-rescue operations in peacetime history, but the aircraft were hampered by a lowering ceiling and the rafts were not sighted. It was not until after dusk of the second day that a search-plane crew spotted two red flares set off by the castaways...
...close of the conference, Acheson had said that the Paris decisions would become known in the following "weeks, or even months." In fact, the substance of the Paris agreement on Germany was known last week. Thanks largely to France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman who had set what he considered a sound policy above French fears of Germany, the agreement represented a sizable boost for the young West German Republic...
...exchange for these concessions the Germans would have to promise to: 1) take their assigned seats on the Ruhr Authority set up by the Western powers last April, and thereby formally accept international control of the Ruhr's industrial output; 2) make some public statement indicating acceptance of continuing military security inspection by the Western powers; 3) cooperate in reforming the hidebound German civil service and decartelizing German industry...
...speed up Germany's recovery, the Western powers in 1947 raised the permitted level of steel production in West Germany to 10.7 million tons, and several hundred surplus plants were dropped from the category set aside for dismantling. The most recent working list covered 796 plants and parts of plants. Of these, 179 were in the U.S. zone, 125 in the French zone, 492 in the British zone. By last month the U.S. had dismantled all but two of the listed plants in its territory, and shipped most of them to Germany's former enemies. The French...
...Lords, long at loggerheads over the steel bill (TIME, June 21, 1948), had worked out a compromise. The lords agreed to pass the bill without further ado if the government would not make it effective until after the 1950 general election. "Vesting day" for the steel industry was set for Jan. 1, 1951. Thus, if the Tories win, they can repeal the law before any steel plants are actually taken over by the government...