Word: keep
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Chinese had been slaughtered in what was called the "climax of clean-up operations.'' But the real significance of the treaty was found in a Tokyo admission that peace overtures to Chiang had proved fruitless, and in a clause of the treaty which authorized the Japanese to keep troops in China until two years after "complete peace is restored everywhere in China." There has not been complete peace in China for centuries. The U. S. reply to Wang's recognition was a whopping $100,000,000 credit to Chiang Kaishek...
...influence of fashionable restaurants in the big cities, the greater distribution of unseasonable vegetables by railroads, the later dietetic crusades of ladies' magazines, development of the icebox to keep fresh foods finally won the battle for greens...
Last week BBC finally decided that talk was not enough to keep British listeners amused. This week, for the first time in its history, it will introduce a cash-prize contest, on which it will offer ?100 each month to the listeners who make high scores in identifying such sounds as those made in games of cricket, croquet, golf. Listeners will mail guesses with twopence-halfpenny stamps, and BBC expects to collect ?2,500 a month for the Red Cross Penny a Week Fund...
...days of Technocracy, a retired Scottish engineer named Major Clifton Hugh Douglas, having long sensed a bankers' plot to keep buying power out of motion, brought his Social Credit movement to North America. Its theory-that the State should credit "National Dividends" to its citizens to increase their buying power-was intriguing enough to carry Alberta's provincial election in 1935. Fortnight ago in Buffalo, N. Y., a practical reformer launched a version of Social Credit that would have sent Major Douglas staggering to a neutral corner...
Since the story is no more than an excuse to keep the performers occupied between numbers, Producer Zanuck treats it like an ugly stepchild. Its principal function is to present the cheesecake of the cast-blonde, lethargic Alice Faye and blonde, lithe Betty Grable-as the sister act of Katie and Lily Blane. Capitalizing on their more obvious assets, the film sets Alice and Betty wriggling and crooning in cellophane hula skirts and harem costumes. Clearly neither of the girls cares to hand over the picture to the other, and their artistic competition results in a standoff. Miss Faye...