Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Félix Gouin this week described the U.S. as "the power which possesses the most considerable financial and industrial means." Blum would soon find out if the U.S. was willing to use those means for its avowed aim of reviving world trade. Major French wants were a loan of $2½ billion and a bigger share of German coal production (France's present allotment: about 10%). These, argued Blum, were essential if France was to take her place as a strong nation...
...decision was in line with the Socialist Government's aim to control markets and eliminate middlemen. But the theory was not as important as the practical value of bulk buying as a trade weapon. Now smaller cotton-producing countries may be forced to buy British goods before Britain will buy their cotton. Even the U.S. may be forced to centralize cotton selling in a single governmental agency, to deal with the British on equal terms...
...harder to meet the renewed threat of capitalistic encirclement. He said that Churchill had sounded "a call to war with the Soviet Union," and bitterly pointed out that this "firebrand" had "raised the alarm and organized" the 1918-20 Allied invasion of the fledgling Soviet state, "with the aim of turning back the wheel of history." But "history turned out to be stronger than Churchill's intervention," and his "quixotic antics" had resulted in "complete defeat." If he tried it again, said Stalin, he would be beaten again...
...Lieut. General John R. Hodge announced last week that the Seoul conference with the Russians "fell short of the aim expected of it by U.S. representatives." Hodge's statement was so diplomatic it was uncandid; the conference was a thorough failure...
...agreed that transportation and postal services between the two zones would be resumed. Shtykov also consented to allow Koreans to cross the boundary, but his boss, Colonel General Ivan Chistiakov, canceled this agreement last week without explanation. "Short of the aim" meant that trains will be allowed to cross the boundary, but with almost no goods or passengers...