Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economic point was the week's touchiest. Acheson bluntly said that, to the best of his knowledge, East Germany was a deficit economy in which the Russian state had taken possession of a third of all industrial enterprise. Vishinsky painted a different picture of East Germany. Its industrial output, he said, was 96.6% of 1936-more progress than the 90% claimed for West Germany. Britain's Ernest Bevin, cigarette drooping from a corner of his mouth, thanked Vishinsky for "this tableau of Oriental prosperity," promised to bring it to the attention of the "thousands of refugees" from Soviet...
...again, asked the American-owned Shanghai Power Co. to keep the doors of its collection office open even though one corner of the building was still in the line of fire of a few Nationalist snipers still fighting from the buildings along the Bund and Soochow Creek. On the third day of Communist rule, 300 truckloads of political workers and takeover officials chugged into Shanghai. One group, responsible for industry, trade, finance, postal services and telecommunications, set up offices in the Pacific Hotel. The halls of the hotel quickly filled with brisk, businesslike young girl political workers dressed...
...party's founders and France's former Foreign Minister, who had won out over Pierre Henri Teitgen, gaunt ex-Minister of Justice, his rival for the party presidency. Bidault's election raised a big question: would he lead his party rightward from its present "Third Force" position into an alliance with Charles de Gaulle...
...dysentery and Indians' arrows, the Brazilians have rammed a narrow-gauge railroad 240 miles westward across the Oriente's jungle. With luck, they will link Sao Paulo and Rio with Santa Cruz by December 1950, later extend the line to Cochabamba to complete South America's third transcontinental railway. From the south an Argentine standard-gauge spur is now abuilding toward Santa Cruz...
When on May 21 it participated in the American Henley regatta on the Charles, the Eliot second boat took first place in its event and the first boat trailed an MIT third varsity boat by a scanty three feet in the 2000 meter...