Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With that, the shipowners determined to break Bridges' 18-year grip on the West Coast. They withdrew their offers, and took the position that they could not negotiate at all so long as Bridges and other Maritime Union chiefs refused to sign the Taft-Hartley law's non-Communist affidavit. The owners showed every sign of being prepared to sit it out until Bridges was busted. Bridges had the choice of eating crow or explaining to his members why they should continue a strike which had cost them more than $5,000,000 in wages...
...exception of the incredible Westbrook Pegler (whose continued toleration is all the proof anyone should need that the U.S. press is free); last week he called her "the Great Gabbo." When she was in London last spring for the unveiling of her husband's monument, men respectfully took off their hats as she passed. The London News Chronicle wrote: "She has walked with kings, but never lost the common touch. Immersed in politics, she has never acquired the hard professionalism of the politician...
...West last week took another important step toward the rebuilding of Western Germany, on which depends the rebuilding of all Western Europe. The military governors of the U.S., British and French occupation zones announced that all of the import & export trade of those areas would henceforth be regulated by one centralized agency. That regulation meant the almost complete economic merger of U.S.-British Bizonia with the hitherto separate French zone. It was a firm answer to Russia, who, by putting on the screws in Berlin, is trying to make the West abandon Western German recovery...
Sweden last week took a long step away from the dogged isolationism that has kept her out of the 20th Century's two great wars...
...fighting that followed was in deadly earnest. The same evening, as prearranged, Israeli bombers took off on what the government called an "action to open and keep open the convoy routes to and in the Negeb." Some of the heaviest bomb-loads yet dropped in the Holy