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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poultry Week. The symbol for the build-up was Communist Artist Pablo Picasso's "Dove of Peace." Everywhere in the Soviet sector, on handbills, stickers and banners, the benign bird cooed Communist "pacifism." Berliners only sneered at the "Trojanische Taube" (Trojan dove); they dubbed each propaganda flurry as "Geflűgel Woche" (Poultry Week...
Since Schmiedigen flew down from New York last November to build the Haitians a $6,000,000 fair, he has lost 30 Ibs. As soon as he began the job, which has to be finished in time for Port-au-Prince's sooth anniversary in December, he discovered that there were practically no skilled workers in the country. He has had to train electricians, plumbers, welders, drillers, mechanics. He has personally supervised carpenters and masons, all of whom were imbued to a man with the Haitian aversion to straight lines and square corners...
...crisis as a permanent one; "instead of handling 'temporary' schools as poor cousins, so badly built and maintained that children rightfully hate to go to them, we should set out to produce temporary schools of top quality." With up-to-date techniques, including prefabrication, a community can build an attractive new schoolhouse quickly and cheaply. When the time comes to remodel, rebuild, or abandon the school entirely, no large investment has been wasted...
...During the past month, the party had carried on a national fund-raising campaign for the Italian Communist press. Florence's four-day Fèsta dell' Unità (sponsored by the Communist daily Unità) was the grand finale. For weeks, 200 workmen had labored to build a kind of Marxist Coney Island...
...committee was impressed when Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan marched in with an armful of facts & figures on how well a program of industrialization with U.S. techniques and capital had been working in Latin America. Brannan brushed away the possibility that industrialization of backward nations would only build up competition for U.S. goods. "Only the developed areas," said he, "are good customers. [Developed] countries making up only 11% of the world's population are providing us with more than half of our market...