Word: truceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inherited Britain's hereditary role as antagonist of Europe's No. 1 power, whoever that may be. He also reports in detail the Soviet plans for a big navy. His grim conclusion: "The coming period in world history will be, at best, a period of armed truce...
...French achieved a nervous truce, but no agreement, last week with rebellious Annamites at Saïgon. Much to the relief of colonials, a respectable show of French force was possible: the battleships Richelieu and Triomphant had arrived. But in northern Indo-China, liberated and still occupied by the Chinese, native Viet Nam leaders crowed that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had personally promised them support...
Management and labor, after four years of armed truce, had taken up their ancient weapons-the lockout and the strike-and once again were back at the old game of beating each other around the ears...
...labor-management conference would be called after Congress convenes. (The President urged a reconversion-period truce on labor disputes...
Double Selling. During World War I, Philips stayed on its neutral feet. In 1919, it began its characteristic way of doing business. The first was an exclusive cross-licensing of light-bulb patents with General Electric. Then followed a truce with the German lamp trust, Osram, and the formation, in 1924, of the giant Phoebus cartel, to control the sale of lamp bulbs throughout the world. This included companies in Britain, France, Germany and Japan, and American-owned foreign companies. Phoebus "stabilized" prices at a high level, roughly four times higher than...