Word: west
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back home some 400,000 miners heard the latest news with evident relief. Another strike would indeed have made Christmas even bleaker than it was apt to be anyhow in the coalfields of Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Pennsylvania. The boss had called them out in March and again in June. In July he had put them on a three-day week; in September he had ordered them into a full-scale strike which had ended in the uncertain three-week truce. Among the highest paid industrial labor in the U.S. when they work, the miners had worked only...
...testified that he personally took up Bridges' party membership cards on two occasions and issued him new ones; he often saw Bridges pay party dues. He told of meetings between Bridges and party officials, and testified that the Communists were in complete control of the bloody 1934 West Coast waterfront strike, with Bridges taking orders from Sam Darcy, California Communist boss at the time...
...including changes of spelling at British request, e.g., "programs" to "programmes") to produce a statement which revealed almost nothing of the real plans; newsmen called it the "blackout communique." It was known, however, that the "strategic concepts" had settled a long-standing controversy: they called for defense of the West on the Western European plain-not from behind the Pyrenees or the far side of the English Channel...
...West was facing a portentous decision: Should it prepare to place arms into the hands of defeated Germany...
...Louis Johnson in the name of President Truman, was a flat no. But by last week it was plain that a more accurate and honest answer would have been: "No-for the time being." Western military leaders and planners are agreed that some sort of army for the new West German Republic is essential and inevitable. In the face of an East German, Red-armed puppet state, a Western Germany capable of defending itself is necessary to the successful defense of all Western Europe. This view has been forcefully expressed by Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, chief of Western Union...