Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strength of U.N. depends, basically, on the U.S. As long as the U.S. supports U.N. and as long as U.S. policies conform to principles of democracy, positive and independent actions in the world will strengthen, not weaken, the world organization of which the U.S. is the most important part...
Just who was more surprised was not clear. In eleven bitter months the local lost almost half its membership to an independent union. A back-to-work movement had put 6,000 men at A-C's benches (more than half the normal strength) before the strike ended. Workers lost an estimated $20 million in wages. The company lost $65 million in production.* The union paid out more than $100,000 in strike benefits...
...Communism was just about clinched. Buse and the local's honorary president, Harold Christoffel, had their pasts examined by a subcommittee of the House labor committee, and the evidence that they had been Communists, despite sworn denials, set the committee studying a citation for perjury. On the strength of this, Allis-Chalmers had fired them both...
...garrison had seen signs of resurgent Jap activity. A raft loaded with stolen Marine rations was discovered floating in Peleliu's lowland swamps. Then a Marine sentry fired on a band looting a warehouse of captured Japanese weapons, was answered with rifle and grenade fire. The Jap strength was estimated at 50, led by a lieutenant commander, with more coming in daily from nearby Babelthuap. Alarmed by the weakness of his small, lightly armed Marine garrison, worried for the safety of the 35 naval dependents, Peleliu's commander radioed for reinforcements...
...retreating Chinese Communists, leaving behind their legendary capital, Yenan, filtered northward to other centers of Red strength. Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist troops, commanded by stocky, dependable General Hu Tsung-nan, marched in, took down the huge poster of Communist Chieftain Mao Tse-tung flapping by the south gate, raised the twelve-rayed sun flag of the Government. After ten years, Yenan ("Permanent Peace") had fallen...