Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Northern, southern and western coal operators sat calmly at negotiating tables in West Virginia, apparently willing to wait indefinitely for Lewis to name his terms for a new contract. Lewis had cut output with his "memorial" and "stabilizing" stoppages and the three-day work week; yet he had let his miners dig enough coal to keep them in business...
...schedules of military arms to be furnished by the U.S. had already undergone many a revision. Original requests from Western European countries had simply listed what each country felt it needed. The requests had been carefully screened and trimmed down to size by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Then a committee of State, Defense and EGA officials had worked out the all but final figures...
...them without fire-control equipment or prime movers). It had thousands of 81-mm. mortars, a good many excess tanks (needing guns and radios before shipment), 155-mm. howitzers, scout cars, machine guns and military radios. In all, some $450 million worth of excess materiel was scheduled for Western Europe's armies. Only the cost of rehabilitation-estimated at $77 million-would be charged...
...governments of the Western diplomats gathered at Moscow's Spasso House had not arrived at any clear, coordinated policy on whether to recognize Red China. The U.S. was still waiting "for the dust to settle...
...Western Germany, which bears a heavy share of Europe's hopes, skimmed through an alarming crisis last week. The high commissioners of the three occupying powers (the U.S., Britain and France) got in a row over their first important decision. They patched it up by a crude compromise which embroiled them with the new German government of Konrad Adenauer. When Adenauer stood firm, the high commissioners partly backed down, and belatedly saved the situation...