Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...native. Willkie demurred when police (including two courtesy plain-clothes men sent by New York City's police commissioner) insisted on fencing off the sidewalk in front of his rented red brick house, for every day several hundred neighbors, farmers and motorists from neighboring States stop and wait politely before the house and several times a day Willkie comes out, gives them a cheerful wave of the hand and few good-natured words. But despite this leisurely small-town existence, as his loyal wife well knew, Candidate Willkie had plenty to think about last week...
When the ultimatum expired, with only about three hours of daylight left to fight, the British Commander, Vice Admiral Sir James Fownes Somerville, felt he could wait no longer. With three capital ships, an aircraft carrier, three cruisers and a strong screen of destroyers he went into action. When he opened fire most of the French men of war were unprepared. So far as these pictures show, they never fired a shot...
...second largest empire returned to the international crucible. With the British Navy controlling the sea, the French could no longer defend it, the German conquerors could not reach it. Slapping down a blockade that severed the Empire from France, politically and economically, Great Britain sat down to wait for pressure to produce results. Last week they came in a rush as colony after colony forsook the Vichy Government for the defiant banner of General Charles de Gaulle, self-appointed leader of "free Frenchmen...
Since 1930 more than 100 railroads (almost one-third of the nation's railroad mileage) have relapsed into receivership or bankruptcy. While investors wait, their $6,000,000,000 of capitalization is slowly unraveled in the courts. Last week ICC reported what it has done to help them: 1) approved or recommended cuts of $2,133,875,000 in the capitalization of 25 roads; 2) slashed their combined debt from $3,708,484,000 to $1,609,526,000; 3) reduced annual fixed charges...
...concept of man as a rational being. From these he derived a new program for U. S. Negroes: 1) cooperative action among Negro consumers, building toward industrial democracy, i.e., socialism; 2) recognition of the deep, irrational roots of race prejudice, demanding "on our part not only the patience to wait, but the power to entrench ourselves for a long siege...