Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would spend $657,000 to finance the purchase of 7,500 U.S. mules. From New Orleans, the mules will be shipped in lots of about 900 to Greece, to aid the recovery of that nation's ravaged agriculture. This quiet announcement was the final settlement of an international war which had raged for a year among some of the world's shrewdest mule skinners...
With that, San Francisco split wide open. An avalanche of letters rolled into the offices of the warring boards, almost all critical of the War Memorial board. For once, all four major San Francisco daily papers were editorially agreed. "When her own government has not seen fit to accuse her," cried Hearst's Examiner, "is it not presumptuous-and intolerant to the last degree-for persons in far-off San Francisco ... to keep pressing charges ... on nonlegalistic, hearsay evidence...
...first, the War Memorial board stood firm. "O.K.," cried Trustee Richard Newhall, "so I'm one of the heels of San Francisco . . .!" Later, he announced, "I never heard of this Madame Flagstaff till this came up." His opponents howled at his howler. Acting Mayor George Christopher raised his voice: "I don't give a damn about Flagstad. But I don't want the opera to die. I'd sing her roles myself first. Our culture is at stake." He calle'd on the War Memorial board to relent. The American Legion's national headquarters...
...desperation, Acting Mayor Christopher wired the U.S. Embassy at Oslo: "Would the [Norwegian] government [object] to her appearance at a public concert in Norway?" It was a moot question: Flagstad has not sung in Norway since the war, and just last week the government brought suit to confiscate the estate of her husband, who had died before he could be tried for collaboration...
Policy Arbiter. For Sir William and Anglo-Iranian, trouble is always in the offing. World War II cost them 44 of their 93 ships; during the Palestine fighting, they lost control of the Haifa refinery. But Sir William speedily got the refinery back, and he has rebuilt the tanker fleet to 121 ships, greater than ever. Since the war he has helped Anglo-Iranian boost its crude-oil production from 16.8 million tons in 1945 to 28 million tons...