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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mills had been enough to hobble the huge U.S. auto industry. Ford Motor Co. prepared to halt production and lay off most of its 115,000 workers by mid-November. Packard worked on halftime. Layoffs would pull most of Chrysler's 86,000 employees off the line within two weeks. General Motors had cut down to a four-day week at some plants...
...fine and three years in prison. Robert Thompson, New York state chairman of the party, had gotten a lighter sentence because of his war record: he won the Distinguished Service Cross in New Guinea for swimming a swollen river under fire and, with his platoon, wiping out two pillboxes. Comrade Thompson was not exactly grateful for the favor. "Judge Medina attempted with a last-minute two-bit maneuver to cloak his vicious class role with a whitewash of judicial fairness," Thompson complained later. "I take no pleasure that this Wall Street judicial flunky has seen fit to equate my possession...
...tense silence the voting began. On the first ballot Yugoslavia got 37 votes, only two less than the necessary two-thirds majority. Yugoslavia's Foreign Minister Edward Kardelj and his colleagues, who sat pale and worried right behind the Russian delegation, began to relax a little. On the second ballot Yugoslavia was elected, with 39 votes. Czechoslovakia got 19 votes, with one abstention...
...Vishinsky's phrase was gentlmenskoe soglashenie; the Russian language has borrowed the word "gentleman" from English. † This procedure has not always been followed; two years ago, when Russia backed the Ukraine for a Security Council seat, the U.S. and Britain backed India. The Ukraine was elected...
...advantage which our present detachment gives us." He predicted that capitalism and Marxism could not long endure in one world, and that whichever force was better able, morally and materially, "to deliver the goods" would in the end win out. But he did not say which of the two forces he considered better fit to deliver...