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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freedom was not academic. In these and other countries of the West it was still possible for ordinary men and women to discuss freedom out loud. TIME planned to include one other European country in the survey, but at the last moment it turned out to be impossible to ask such questions in Czechoslovakia this spring...
Next day George Marshall answered for the U.S. His Government, he said, would ask World Bank loans for Latin America, and make fresh funds available for new loans from the Export-Import Bank. But the kind of economic development Latin America needed, he said, was simply beyond the U.S. Government's capacity. His suggestion for latinos: invite private capital to help. To show that this need not mean economic bondage, he cited the use the U.S. made of foreign capital in its i gth Century industrialization...
Further Council action, in the event of a rebuff by the Faculty Committee, was a distinct possibility, Bingham said. As chairman of the Council sub-committee on student activities, he declared that he would ask the Council to press the matter, probably at its next meeting...
Optimist: Businessmen are pessimists only when they are thinking of the Stock Exchange. Ask them about their own business, and most of them will talk in terms of cautious optimism...
...Game. There are 70,000 registered amateur hockey players in Canada. Dominion youngsters ask for skates almost as soon as they can talk, at seven are ready for competitive hockey in the "peewee leagues." This year the Dominion's two big-league teams (Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens) will spend more than $70,000 to help keep amateurs on ice, groom some of them ultimately for the big time. In a setup similar to major-league baseball, N.H.L.'s six teams own farm teams in the lesser professional and amateur leagues...