Word: truce
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...this week opened, the Lenten season demand for fresh fish forced the price of haddock above the union's minimum, brought about a temporary truce between the fishermen and boat-owners. But much of last week's unsold catch was condemned by the state health inspector, sold for fish meal and fertilizer. Price...
...weeks' strike truce in the Maritime coal industry had brought miners and owners no closer. So last week 13,500 members of the United Mine Workers, District 26, walked out of the mines for a second time, and shut down 30% of Canada's coal industry...
...last week abandoned its tattered, outdated policy in China. It made ready to dissolve the moribund Executive Headquarters in Peiping, which had organized the unsuccessful truce teams. It would call home its 9,000 marines. The operation would be completed within 90 days...
...people chopped up deserted houses and furniture for firewood, ate reed stalks until the planes began showering them with mixed (and heavy) blessings. Once, under an UNRRA truce, the Communists let 300,000 catties (200 tons) of millet and corn go into the city. Just as distribution was about to start, Nationalist airplanes arrived with more loaves and canned fishes, smashed several communal kitchens and sent grainbowls, chopsticks and people flying...
...side of the medal, that the Marines were only in China to oppress the people--in spite of the fact that they were helping repatriate Japs by the thousand. In such a situation the moderates had no chance to exploit the advantage that mediation by a third party presented. Truces were signed, properly witnessed, passed on to troops in the field, and backed by teams of all three interested parties--only to be broken time and again by the trigger-happy commanders to whom a truce was for the other side to keep. Both factions came to look upon American...