Word: returns
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...French Indo-China from another direction. On the lame charge that French bombing planes had tried to raid Siamese towns, Thailand warned all French residents to leave the Cambodian border area, started a series of air raids against Cambodia, occupied three border districts. Nationalist organizations, clamoring for the return of Thailand's lost province, hailed "the beginning...
Feature of Stokowski's return was the first performance outside Russia of the sixth and latest symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich, at 34 the No. 1 Soviet composer. The Philadelphia Orchestra got first crack at No. 6 as it might have arranged for a ton of caviar: by negotiating with Amtorg Trading Corp., paying a fee so stiff (amount kept secret) that it had to be specially approved by the Philadelphia Orchestra directors...
...Post likes old-fashioned ways best. "It is frankly my opinion," says she, "that the encouragement of unrestrained self-expression has gone too far, and that what parents and children of the present day really need is a return to the sanity, the simplicity-and the discipline-of ideal home life...
...excess-profits tax. Taking 20 typical industrial stocks, the Wall Street Journal last week showed that out of every $1 by which these companies increase their profits over 1939, 72? will go for taxes. Not so the railroads. With enormous structures of "invested capital," on which the return for most is nowhere near the law's minimum 8%, they offered their common stockholders one of the longest rides in the park. Signs, good...
...wrongly suspects of bedding with her husband. At her lowest she invites her rakehell nephew Martin for a visit, assigns him Nancy as his personal servant. Colbert and his daughter help Nancy escape, unscathed, into Canada. In an old-fashioned epilogue Willa Cather, aged five, sees Nancy's return as a middle-aged woman...