Word: building
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officials, dismissed the possibility of an Asiatic Marshall Plan, or a Pacific version of the North Atlantic Treaty. But, he reasoned, Southeast Asia is potentially self-sufficient, and still tied flimsily to the West by frayed cords of the past. He thought the West might be able to build that part of the world into a loose, anti-Communist economic federation by friendly assistance and some money...
Shortly before World War II, the Army Engineers approved a project calling for dredging a four-acre swamp in the river. The congressional bill to provide the necessary $33,000 was vetoed. Thereupon a majority of the voters, some 200, gathered at the Fire Station and decided to build the harbor themselves, and to date they have spent over $40,000 on it. The Coast Guard used the harbor as a wartime base for patrol craft, and there is an active Coast Guard auxiliary unit there today...
...Paris agreement, such as it was, provided a cold war respite which both sides had wanted-though the Russians had probably needed it more than the West. If the West, lulled by the Paris agreement, relaxed its efforts to build up the non-Communist world, then the meeting would turn out to be a great Communist victory. If not, it would be just another skirmish in the long, cold...
...Robeson, it was a busy week. Stepping off a plane in New York after a four-month tour of eight European countries, including a visit to the U.S.S.R., the burly baritone orated: "In Eastern democracies [i.e., the Soviet satellites] the people are happy and singing and are trying to build for peace-while I have to be met by a police squad*... an interesting welcome." As for Europe, "I found nothing but friendliness and good will for the workers and progressives in America." But "I found no liking for the Marshall Plan among the common people. I found ... a feeling...
...better idea: cash on the barrelhead. More important, at a time when most small-town retailers firmly believed it was good business to make a big profit on small volume, Penney subscribed to a still revolutionary idea; he wanted to make a small profit on each item, thus build big volume and a big profit...