Word: thems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A T.W.A. agent was waiting when the Connie landed at Pittsburgh. Somehow, there were 42 tickets and 43 passengers on the plane, he said. When they came to Artie, he told them that he had left his ticket on the reservation desk at the Waldorf back in New York. T.W.A...
The U.S. agreed that dismantling ought to stop. The French disagreed, although they were being more openminded about the subject than they had been. If the Germans would honestly abide by security controls, the French were willing to let them have an annual steel production of 11,500,000 tons...
The State Department now expects the British, with India and Australia in tow, to recognize the Chinese Communists before year's end. The British suggested that they would consider withholding recognition only if the U.S. promised to help them defend Hong Kong against a possible Communist attack; the U.S...
By last week, the note was still unanswered, and Washington still did not know what to do. Such shilly-shallying in the face of Peiping's provocation stirred the good, grey New York Times to red-hot anger, which was shared by more & more Americans. Wrote the Times: "Able...
When Nationalist authorities whiffed the brewing plot, they promptly ordered CNAC (China National Aviation Corp.) and CATC (Central Air Transport Corp.) to shift all operations from Hong Kong to Formosa, where Chiang Kai-shek's forces could exert closer control. But at dawn one day last week, eleven planeloads...