Word: aid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last year has made a big difference to TIME Inc.'s European publishing operation and, although there are many factors involved in it like Marshall Plan aid, the fact is that European governments themselves are now convinced that we are in the international publishing business to stay, and that TLI is not just another temporary postwar project. Furthermore, they want the American story and, despite their shortage of foreign exchange, are doing their best to make it available to their citizens via TIME, LIFE, and other American publications. Apparently, our readers feel the same way about us because...
Thus was written off-or indefinitely postponed-what many had hoped would be the chief long-range result of U.S. aid to Western Europe. The OEEC turned its back on European integration to face a less important but more urgent task: how to become independent of U.S. aid...
Peacetime aid toward the rearmament of the Atlantic Pact nations is not included in the pact's terms, but such aid will go forth as part of the same moral bundle. The Administration bill aimed at Congress includes Greece, Turkey and some Latin American states, as well as the Atlantic nations. Estimated overall cost to the U.S. (in addition to Marshall Plan economic aid): $1.5 to $2 billion. The cost-and the risk-of the pact was more than balanced by the feeling of Western cohesion, the assurance that peace of the Atlantic community was indivisible...
Hard Way to Shakespeare. When Aneurin (rhymes with a fire in) Bevan was a boy in Tredegar, South Wales, sickness and disaster were never far from the pithead. His father had been one of the founders of the Tredegar Workingmen's Medical Aid Society. Each member contributed three pennies out of every pound earned; in return, the society hired doctors and dentists to treat the miners or their families when they became...
Said Bevan to the Tredegar Aid Society: "I believe that orthopedic surgery can be of great benefit to many miners and I would fight all the doctors of the British Medical Association to prove my point." Or he would cry in his Welsh singsong: "If a specialist is away in Bristol, why should we not be able to send our men to him? Why should not a miner have the right to the best treatment...