Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Turks, perhaps? Thank you, no. The Turks, after much consideration, feared that, much as they should like to be agreeable, such diplomatic action might perhaps be inconsonant with their neutrality...
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...Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad, the President dispatched a final request for arbitration of a 77-day-old strike. George McNear sent back a wire that made Washington eyebrows jump: "Greatly appreciate if you will permit me to present [my reply] in person. . . . Can be in Washington Friday morning. . . . Would thank you to let me know time to be at your office." The President sent an ultimatum. George McNear sent back a 77-page collect telegram, refusing to arbitrate. The President thereupon seized the railroad, cracked an important transportation bottleneck around Chicago...
...Budapest or Shanghai (the fact happens to be that I wrote it after reading Malraux's novel, Man's Fate, about the Shanghai rebellion of 1927). There are some American details, but the scene was not meant to be and could not have been the United States. Thank God, there hasn't been a revolution here, or the sacrifice of millions of lives. No blood has flowed at home, only printer...
Douglas could thank its foreign customers-largely Britain. Sales abroad last year accounted for 88% of profits v. only 6% for commercial business, another 6% for Army & Navy sales. Most U.S. aircraft export contracts were taken over by Lend-Lease, but not Douglas'. Its export contracts all contained heavy penalties for cancellation-Lend-Lease, war's end, or otherwise...