Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese pulled back their naval units. On Feb. 22 a similar blow was made at Saipan; again the Japanese drew back. Although they did not give up these islands-their garrisons will probably stay put till rooted out-this Japanese naval retirement meant that the Japanese had to withdraw their main seaborne supply route farther west, until it was out of U.S. reach...
...blow at Palau the U.S. extended its reach. Unless the Japanese were willing to meet the thrusts of the U.S. Navy at or near Palau, they would have to withdraw their supply route still farther west, to the Philippines, leaving all their mid-Pacific garrisons as well as their garrisons in New Guinea, New Britain and New Ireland at the end of a very long and tortuous line...
Last week the President searched for a compromise which would not leave pro-New Deal C.I.O. out in the election-year cold. Franklin Roosevelt did not want A.F. of L.'s 6.5 million members to withdraw into a long, disastrous fit of isolationist sulks. But he did want C.I.O. to be happy...
...fine for the U.S. stomach, which has lately been assaulted by more & more rotgut.* The plan: that U.S. distillers should buy 50,000,000 gallons of Cuban cane alcohol at 80? a gal. They would resell this to the Government at 50? a gal. in exchange for permission to withdraw 35,000,000 gal. of good U.S. grain alcohol at 90? a gal. and to turn it into good U.S. prewar-style potables. This was supposed 1) to add at least 10% to the nation's liquor supplies, 2) to give the Government a smart profit...
...given any high Latin American diplomat since the beginning of the Good Neighbor Policy. Reason: Argentina's authoritarian Government still had to show genuine friendship for the U.S., clean out its anti-democratic elements (President Ramirez prevailed upon three notably pro-Nazi Cabinet members to withdraw their resignations...