Word: swing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bridge over the muddy Salzach River, where it twists through troubled Salzburg, a U.S. Army sign says: "Free Swing Concert Tonight in the Mozart Theater." In Salzburg it is swing, in Vienna it is a tune somewhat more familiar to European ears. But unless the orchestras get together, the Austrians are more likely to listen to a new variation of that old Horst Wessel Lied, sung by men who are now fugitives in the mountains...
...said Krosigk, "feel that we cannot abandon the German people in this dark hour ... if there is to" be no central organization by the Allied occupying powers in which we as experts could help, I greatly fear for the future. There will be hunger . . . chaos ... a big political swing either to left or right. . . . Neither could be a good thing for Germany...
...enterprise and nationalization to achieve "minimum economic standards for all." The core of Liberal policy will in effect be the social-security and full-employment plans of the Party's brightest luminary, Sir William Beveridge. The election will give a historic answer to a critical question: will Britain swing to the left, like Europe, or stand pat with the conservatives, who have led it to victory in World War II? Conservatives were confident that if the election could be held soon, before wartime memories fade, Winnie would win again...
Cried Radio Pundit Raymond Gram Swing: "China is going through its worst scandal of the war. It is a gold scandal, and arises from insiders, with high Government connections, making a cleanup when the price of gold was officially raised on March 28. ... The gold involved . . . is part of the $500,000,000 this country loaned to China. . . . Fortunes have been made. . . . There is strong pressure on the Government ... by public opinion...
...small number of cars in sight for 1945 dulled the competitive urge among automen to be first. The market was so much bigger than expected production that the exact date of production would not affect the prospect of sales. But some manufacturers were better prepared than others to swing into peacetime work...