Word: follower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worth: "There is nothing that can break the friendship of France toward the United States." To foreign pressmen M. Baudouin continued: "Yesterday's French dead at Oran have rendered us the service of liberating us from England's domination, allowing us to be politically free to follow a purely French policy." France, he added, was determined, with the consent of Germany and Italy, to defend herself by sea and air against any further attacks. French warships were directed to intercept British merchant ships encountered on the high seas. Shore batteries were to attack any British ship approaching within...
...week's end no such orders had arrived in Dearborn. Henry Ford sternly asserted that he was "not doing business with the British Government or any other foreign government," proceeded on the as sumption that U. S. orders will follow...
...Russian service last week. For further encouragement to Russia, about two-thirds of a shipment of machine tools, dies and machinery, deemed unnecessary to U. S. defense, were released in Tacoma for shipment to Vladivostok. Other shipments of standard, easily replaceable machine tools were expected to follow...
Heir to the blood of the fathers is Meier Borsht, tradesman, the vicissitudes of whose strong-witted life follow the pattern of his dark-bearded ancestors, whose adventures and generations Robert Neumann relates with prodigal invention...
Professional traders fought the turn. The Wall Street Journal reported: "Wall Street did not follow the rise of Tuesday and Wednesday with any confidence. . . . Much of the buying came from out of town sources where business is scanned as much as the war news." Prominent performers in the rise were potentially big armament producers like Baldwin Locomotive and American Car & Foundry. But traders were still careful about overcommitting themselves for fear of what might happen if France collapsed. First day this week they were reassured. France surrendered, the market reacted by sliding off three and one-half points...