Word: ar
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Even after the defeat, Captain Brousse was still operating in high gear, getting no less than 10,000 litres of gasoline for the U. S. Embassy in Vichy when there was no gasoline, fighting correspondents' battles against the military censorship, ar ranging impossible interviews. He did not do so badly on his own behalf. Appointed press attache to the French Embassy in Washington last month, he went from Vichy to Paris, outshouted the Germans, returned with 23 trunkloads of belongings, put them and his lovely Georgia-born wife in a car and trailer and drove...
...serious was the violent death-the Japanese claimed it was "suicide"-of one of the arrested suspects, Reuters Correspondent Melville James Cox (TIME, Aug. 5). Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax sent an invitation for a little conversation around to Ambassador Shigemitsu. Sober Viscount Halifax told the Ambassador that unless the ar rested men were immediately freed, Britain's anger would be great...
...Dover, N. J., Metuchen, N. J.; San Antonio, Tex., Springfield, Mass., Watertown, Mass., Watervliet, N. Y., Edgewood, Md., were put on a six-day week. Two shipbuilders (Bath Iron Works Corp., Federal Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Co.) bid-o build destroyers in 18 months instead A 24. The Du Fonts ar ranged to build and operate a big powder plant financed by the French and British (see p. 79). Chrysler Corp. was ready to produce bomb fuses, shell forgings. was prepared to convert plant space of World War I vintage to other munitions production. Aged (73) Tank-Designer Walter Christie popped...
Suddenly, without any prior consultation ar . with the least possible notice, wither the advice of his ministers and on his own personal act, he sent a plenipotentiary to the German Command surrendering his Army and exposing our flank and the means of retreat...