Word: shop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looming question in the Northwest has been: Who will buy the power? Enterprising, efficient private utilities already had developed home consumption of electricity in Oregon to a point nearly twice the national average (760 kw-h per customer). Clearly the one answer was to get new industries to open shop within transmission distance of the dams...
...Shop committees, laborers' clubs, Soviets, Party and State functionaries felicitated Hero Stalin, but among the congratulations from abroad one came from an old enemy now turned friend-Adolf Hitler: "I beg you to accept my sincerest congratulations on your 60th birthday," wired the Führer. "I enclose with them my best wishes for your personal welfare as well as for a happy future for the peoples of the friendly Soviet Union." The Nazi press meanwhile carefully eulogized Mr. Stalin as the "revolutionary führer of Russia...
Last November France formally recognized as a Government-in-exile the Czechoslovak National Committee which set up shop in the same old house on the Rue Bonaparte, Paris, where Czechs also worked for their freedom during World War I. Last week British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax notified ex-President Eduard Benes of Czecho-Slovakia, leading committeeman, that His Majesty's Government was also prepared to "afford all requisite support to the Committee in its activities." Thus the Allies acquired a new ally, and a future Czecho-Slovakia, freed from German "protection," had a new Government ready to move...