Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomatic fire last week were similar Allied agreements with Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium. Pre-empted by Britain would be Norway's usual spring exports to Germany of whale oil and her ring. In Denmark's case, British control of the fodder imports needed for Danish dairy products has brought about a tacit under standing with Germany whereby, unless Britons can get their Danish breakfast bacon, Nazis shall go without Danish butter...
...Last week winter stepped in to help the Allied blockade in the Balkans: the Danube froze and heavy snow slowed rail transport, stalling Germany's grain and oil imports from Rumania...
...Item-of-the-week on the economic front was an advertisement by the Admiralty Marshal of the British Contraband Control, offering for public sale "200 dozen baby's rubber pants," seized from the Danish freighter Helvig...
...Last week, as it met at the University of Wisconsin, the Union knew that its resolutions would label it more clearly than any Dies Committee investigation. Up for debate was Soviet Russia's invasion of Finland, a subject close to the hearts of the 400 convention delegates. One group, led by Leftist Herbert Witt of New York University, was eager to plump squarely for Soviet Russia. But the Union was deeply split, for many a "fellow traveler" had decided to travel no further. Among them: dark, energetic Joseph Lash, leader of the Union (executive secretary since it was founded...
Michael A. Sullivan is father of nine, a truck drivers' boss, a member of the Cambridge (Mass.) City Council and a fighting Irishman. Mr. Sullivan mortally hates & fears Communism. A year ago, in his zeal to stamp it out, he fist-brawled with Harvard undergraduates. Last week reckless Mr. Sullivan introduced, and his Council unanimously passed, a resolution directing that the words Lenin and Leningrad be expunged from every piece of printed matter in Cambridge, but failed to say what would happen if they were not. Stalin was not mentioned, nor Stalingrad, nor Communism...