Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual convention of New York's Catholic War Veterans got a resolution recommending that members stop calling one another "Comrade...
...York Telephone Co. declared war on "Hello." Said the company in a burst of confusion-making advice: "Think of the time that would be saved if all telephones were answered: 'Mr. Smith...
...casual meeting. There, one day last February, the U.S.'s lanky negotiator, Philip Jessup, fell into conversation with Russia's barrel-chested Yakov Malik. From that conversation, the U.S. learned last week, came the series of talks which brought the first break in the cold war in months: the Russians were prepared to abandon the blockade of Berlin. The end of the Berlin airlift, a historic employment of air power as a weapon of diplomacy, seemed in sight...
...Picked old New Dealer William H. Davis, onetime chairman of the War Labor Board, to head the Atomic Energy Commission's new labor relations panel...
Minister of Armed Forces A.M. Vasilevsky flung the Politburo's May Day greeting into the sea of onlookers. If he had heard about an impending settlement at Berlin, he gave no indication of it. He cried: "Reactionaries are trying to unleash a new war . . . directed against the U.S.S.R...