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...tree got trimmed, finally, but the taffy didn't pull. "We can always blame it on too many cooks," the participants explained. In addition to the dozen residents, ten guests, Mr. and Mrs. Peach, and their six-year-old daughter, Stephanie, all joined in the festivities...
...bolster the center-party governments on the continent by proving to the people of France and the Benelux nations that we will not desert them in case of a Russian invasion. There is still a very real segment of European public opinion that believes the United States will pull out and leave Russia to fill the power vacuum...
...Montel had entered Canada illegally two years ago, had escaped deportation through pull in high places (TIME, Oct. 18). Only last week did Quebec doctors and the Canadian Legion hear that he had won his new job at a veteran's expense...
Campaign. In Petersfield, England, Commuter Raymond Francis Baird paid a $42 fine for pulling the emergency-stop cord on a 60-m.p.h. train, asserted: "I have written to the railway ... I will pull all trains up when they are going too fast...
...impossible. But with the most concentrated industrial region in the world working for him, Hitler conquered Europe. Once the Nazis were defeated, the Allied coalition determined to control the Ruhr, to make sure that Germany would never again have the productive means for war. Originally, the Allies planned to pull up the factories by the foundations and turn the Ruhr into a pasture-land. This drastic position was, however, economically dangerous, and slowly gave way to a more sensible proposition. As the center of Europe's industrial recovery program, the Ruhr was to be completely utilized--but with stiff...