Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hoffman pointed out that in 1948 the U.S. had a gross national product of $254 billion. "Just three-tenths of 1% more of that spent on British goods,"he said, "and the dollar gap can be closed . . . First, study carefully what the Americans want. Then make it at prices they are able and willing to pay, and package it to appeal to the American consumer. That is the way to earn dollars...This will take energetic salesmanship as well as cheap production. It is the challenge confronting the business statesmanship of Britain...
...half of the page, the tongue-in-cheek Economist printed the side of the medal destined "for American readers-not to be read in Britain"; on the other side, the side "for British readers, not to be read in America." Excerpts...
...single-voiced Soviet press, savage denunciations of the "Tito clique" crowded attacks on the "Anglo-American warmongers" off the front page. A Red army paper said that Tito would suffer the same fate "as Hitler and Mussolini, only this time much quicker." Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, Soviet Deputy Premier and Stalin's longtime pal, called upon the Red faithful to rally together for the grand push against Yugoslavia. He also gave them a significant definition of what it means to be a good Communist. "A proletarian internationalist," said he, "is one who, without any conditions, openly and honestly ... is ready...
...load had increased staggeringly. Letters have poured in-from oldtime civil servants seeking jobs, from contractors eager to get in on Bonn's construction boom, from well-wishers, favor-askers, crackpots, foreign diplomats. Callers pressed him relentlessly-a U.S. broadcasting company wanted to record his message to the American people; Bonn's deputy mayor came to talk over housing for mushrooming government' bureaus; a secretary asked him to approve the musical program for the opening of parliament. Adenauer was still negotiating, shrewdly as ever, to form a cabinet that would guarantee him the most workable coalition...
...American, British and French officials now agree with the Germans who voted for him that Adenauer is by far the best choice at this stage of the great effort to bring Germany into the free world...