Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy personnel have been withdrawn from Boston College, so that...
Extra cots were reported ready in the German Embassy in Madrid, to accommodate fleeing Nazi leaders. In Germany the 60-hour week was standard and heavy fines were waiting for all who shirked. Sixty express trains had been withdrawn. Mailboxes, could no longer be emptied; people had to post their letters at a post office. Mass arrests of unreliable people were a daily occurrence. The Reichsmark was worthless. A poll of 250 Germans showed that 80% thought the war was lost, only 5% still believed in victory. The rest were hoping for a compromise...
...last week cabled New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews. His dispatch dashed recent hopes that Florence had suffered little at Nazi hands. Said Matthews: ". . . The heart of Florence is gone. . . . What little credit [the Nazis] previously got for sparing the Ponte Vecchio (TIME, Aug. 14) must now be withdrawn . . . because instead they destroyed many medieval palaces at both ends, changing the whole aspect of old Florence...
...Then people back East began to get nervous about us. ... War contracts were withdrawn. . . . Now all this is changed. Manufacturers back East see the end of the war in sight. Now they say: Let the contracts go West. ... So we're going to keep in war production, while the Eastern boys quickly convert to peace production. By the time we get finished with the war, they'll be fully geared to peace jobs. And what's more, they'll have gained time to step in and capture our Western markets...
...take issue with the Legion's contention that un chastity is a greater scourge than venereal disease. . . . The protest [that the film violates the Production Code] is not valid. The Code does not and was never intended to apply to educational government films. . . . The film has not been withdrawn . . . a method ... to show it will be worked...