Word: west
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some 15,000 federal employees (including himself) until the end of the fiscal year. In a scorching message, he blasted a clause in it which had delayed his signature. The clause, put in at the insistence of California's Senator Sheridan Downey, friend of the big West Coast landholders, denied Reclamation Commissioner Mike Straus and California's Regional Director Richard Boke their...
...union, for all its immense power and prestige, had felt some of the old troublesome signs: hoodlums had walked into the offices of the union and beat up three organizers; pickets had been slugged. Massed in the street between the towering loft buildings on West 35th Street (called "Chinatown" from the days when "coolie wages" were paid there by the makers of low-priced dresses), 25,000 union dressmakers listened one day as their leaders issued a warning to the remaining unorganized employers: the union would not tolerate the return of gangsters like the late Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter and Jacob...
...Russia Strikes" is an attempt to analyze the probable actions of the United States and its allies on the one hand, and Russia on the other, in event of conflict. Mr. Eliot gives Russia another year in which to decide to attack the West, and the West three years to make the same decision if either is to be successful. According to the author, Russia could now capture all of Western Europe easily, but the United States would still possess final superiority in the air. Time is with this country in arming the Atlantic Pact nations but it will also...
Crusade in Europe (Thurs. 9 p.m., ABC-TV). Second chapter of a film history of the war in the west...
...morning session of the meeting, held at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, Gordon Rickord, Assistant Secretary of the Economic Cooperation Administration, pointed out to the 150 geographers that a fundamental change may have come over West European trade patterns. With much intra-Europe commerce blocked off, Rickord said, the nations of the West are trading more and more with the British Empire and the United States...