Word: withdrawnness
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Early in 1946, town and village elections would be held in the U.S. zone, and U.S. troops withdrawn to three state capitals, Stuttgart, Munich, Frankfurt am Main...
...first time, where they stand; whether in the end it is to be peace or war; reconstruction and reform or reprisal. No one expects the Russians to go back on the letter of their word. It is taken for granted, even among Russophobes, that the Red Army will have withdrawn when the Chinese forces arrive. In Chungking the Government has elected to create the impression that all goes smoothly; the Bear will of course turn over the keys to the Manchurian house. But privately there is worry over what may be found under...
This sudden revelation ... has disgusted, angered and saddened me. Not for any food I shall lose, but to think the commodities sent have been sent in such a spirit, and withdrawn with such delighted glee. . . . Well, now we know where we are-I hope you feel happy with all your food-keep...
...home construction, on starvation corner for the past three years, became the first industry to get a full-ripe postwar plum. From the War Production Board came the announcement: as of Oct. 15, order L-41, limiting construction of new houses to an $8,000 outlay, will be completely withdrawn (TIME, Sept. 10). Thus builders got the go-ahead for their biggest boom yet, almost entirely free of Government control...
Even at sea, there was no active front: Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet, with its British task force attached, had just finished a two-day pounding of northern Honshu with rockets, bombs and shells, and had withdrawn to the east, presumably to refuel...