Word: americans
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...historic credit," the study says gratefully, "to have recognized the vital importance of creating healthy economic conditions as an essential prerequisite for a lasting peace." Wrote Austria's Chancellor Julius Raab in a foreword : "The generous aid of the American people ended the seemingly inevitable decline of the old continent. Today there is no doubt that without this aid Europe would have been engulfed by poverty, suffering and chaos . . . Whenever and however we celebrate the anniversary of Austria's rescue from economic collapse, we should remember that the means for our reconstruction were contributed by the American taxpayer...
...addition to Draper, board chairman of the Mexican Light & Power Co. and retired World War II major general, the committee includes: Houston Lawyer Dillon Anderson, onetime presidential assistant for national-security affairs; Detroit Banker Joseph M. Dodge, onetime Budget Director; American Red Cross President Alfred M. Gruenther, onetime Supreme Allied Commander in Europe; Washington Lawyer Marx Leva, onetime Assistant Secretary of Defense; New York Banker John J. McCloy, onetime High Commissioner in Germany; Dallas Businessman George C. McGhee, onetime Assistant Secretary of State; General Joseph T. McNarney (ret.), onetime Commander of U.S. forces in Europe; Admiral Arthur W. Radford...
...years. Getting rid of protective tariffs, he said, would expose U.S. businesses to brisker competition, force them to become more efficient, more imaginative, more resistant to excessive wage demands. "No single step that the Government could take," said he, "would make such an important contribution toward strengthening the American economy...
...despite all its vulgar errors and commercial excrescences, the western story has given television something that it seriously lacked: a taproot in the American tradition, a meaning beyond the moment. And television has given the western story, the youngest and most prodigiously alive and kicking of the world's mythologies, a fresh chance to express itself, and to change with the times...
Good or bad, adult or infantile, psychological or just physical, the TV western is the No. 1 talking horse of the average trail-feverish American. A man in Pennsylvania, angered when his wife turned off Have Gun, Will Travel while he was watching it, ran for his revolver and took a shot at her. (He missed.) In Florida one priest bet another that Marshal Matt Dillon was faster on the draw than Paladin-loser to say early Mass on Sunday. Tie-in sales of toys suggested by TV westerns are expected to hit $125 million this year. And at last...