Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lamont Library rules covering books withdrawn over Christmas vacation were announced yesterday's by Roland H. Moody, circulation librarian...
...ordered the Navy to lop off $353 million as its share and let the admirals decide where to do the trimming. Last week the Navy was obediently dismantling 21% of its air arm to meet the new ceiling. Twenty-eight Navy and seven Marine combat squadrons were being withdrawn from service; operations were being reduced at six air bases...
...little Bonn, where Beethoven was born, the new German federal government which has barely begun to function is still trying to find room for its ministries in schools, storehouses, private homes; the sleepy town, with its heavy Victorian houses and yellow streetcars, seems withdrawn and dreamy, as if it had decided to live in retreat from the harsh realities outside. But Communist propaganda, radiating from the Reds' Eastern puppet state, reminds Bonn of reality...
Election day passed in relative calm. Fumbling Liberals, who had already withdrawn their presidential candidate, Dario Echandia, in protest at government indifference to violence (TIME, Nov. 14), called for a three-day general strike. Though some railroads were affected in the provinces, the main results of the strike in Bogota were a shortage of taxicabs and the nonappearance of the Liberal newspapers. Electricity, telephone and water service continued under guard...
...announced that one of its general orders would be to guard "the inviolability of the frontier [with Germany] on the Oder and Neisse." U.S. observers had several more or less plausible theories on why Rokossovsky had been sent to Warsaw: i) the Soviet army was going to be dramatically withdrawn from Germany, but it would now be able to dig in permanently in Poland, a short 50 miles from Berlin; 2) the previous heads of the Polish army were not reliable; 3) the way to prevent future Titos was to incorporate the satellites, lock, stock & barrel, into the U.S.S.R...